Information on democracy aid to Indonesia
| Tracking # |
F-00320-13 |
| Submitted | Sept. 13, 2013 |
| Est. Completion | None |
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From: erin snider
To Whom It May Concern:
This is a request under the Freedom of Information Act. I hereby request the following records:
All correspondence between the Center for Democracy and Governance in Washington and USAID's Mission in Indonesia relating to democracy programming.
I also request that, if appropriate, fees be waived as I believe this request is in the public interest. The requested documents will be made available to the general public free of charge as part of the public information service at MuckRock.com, processed by a representative of the news media/press and is made in the process of news gathering and not for commercial usage.
In the event that fees cannot be waived, I would be grateful if you would inform me of the total charges in advance of fulfilling my request. I would prefer the request filled electronically, by e-mail attachment if available or CD-ROM if not.
Thank you in advance for your anticipated cooperation in this matter. I look forward to receiving your response to this request within 20 business days, as the statute requires.
Sincerely,
Erin Snider, Ph.D.
Princeton University
From: Smith, Pamela
Re: USAID FOIA Request No. F-00149-13
Dear Ms. Snider:
Thank you for your letter dated February 11, 2013, requesting information under the Freedom of Information Act (FOIA). The tracking number for your request is F-00149-13. Please use this number when corresponding with our office.
The Government Information Specialist assigned to your request is Ms. Pamela Smith. Ms. Smith will request the document(s) from the appropriate office(s) for review. She will contact you when the review is completed.
If you have any questions, please contact Ms. Smith on (202) 712-4476 or by email at psmith@usaid.gov
Sincerely,
Alecia S. Sillah Team Lead, Government Information Specialist
Bureau for Management
Office of Management Services
Information and Records Division
From: Sillah, Alecia
Re: USAID FOIA Request No. F-00169-13
Dear Ms. Snider:
Thank you for your letter dated February 25, 2013, requesting information under the Freedom of Information Act (FOIA). The tracking number for your request is F-00169-13. Please use this number when corresponding with our office.
The Government Information Specialist assigned to your request is Ms. Pamela Smith. Ms. Smith will request the document(s) from the appropriate office(s) for review. She will contact you when the review is completed.
If you have any questions, please contact Ms. Smith on (202) 712-4476 or by email at psmith@usaid.gov
Sincerely,
Alecia S. Sillah Team Lead, Government Information Specialist
Bureau for Management
Office of Management Services
Information and Records Division
From: Smith, Pamela
Hello Ms. Snider,
I have received communication that as the request currently reads, the
search would result in no records recovered. I have attached the original
request for your convenience.
The purpose of my email is to ask that this request be modified and be more
specific. *Please identify **which organization you seek correspondence
for and provide the time frame covering*. The search is too broad.
Please submit your request containing a reasonable description of the
records you are seeking. Your request has been placed on hold pending your
response. Please provide the requested information within ten (10) days
from the date of this email. You may send that correspondence to
foia@usaid.gov, and please reference the FOIA request number cited above.
If we do not receive a response from you within the specified time frame,
your request will be closed for not reasonably describing the records you
seek and no further action will be taken on it.
If there are are further questions/concerns, my contact information is
below. Thank you.
From: Smith, Pamela
Dear Dr. Snider:
This is the final response to your February 25, 2013, Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) request to the United States Agency for International Development (USAID). Specifically, you requested all correspondence between the Center for Democracy and Governance in Washington and USAID’s Mission in Indonesia relating to democracy programming.
By email dated April 8, 2013, USAID requested additional information from you to assist this office with processing your request. You were advised that if we did not receive a response from you within 10 days of the letter, your request would be administratively closed.
To date, we have not received a response from you. We construe the non-response to be a withdrawal of your request. Accordingly, your request has been administratively closed and no further action will be taken on it. No fees have been assessed. Thank you for your interest in USAID.
Sincerely, //s// Pamela A. Smith
Government Information Specialist Bureau for Management
Office of Management Services
Information and Records Division
From: erin snider
Hello,
There was a considerable amount of confusion because USAID was not responding to the appropriate inbox or MuckRock tracking number for each one of Dr. Snider's requests. Just as USAID has its tracking system, MuckRock has its own -- each request generates a unique alphanumeric email address, each tied to Dr. Snider's account on the MuckRock website. USAID has been responding to one inbox for all of Dr. Snider's requests, which made it impossible for her to respond within the required time for each.
Please respond to this inbox with respect to F-00169-13. Do not hesitate to get in contact with MuckRock, and we look forward to working with USAID's FOIA office in the future.
Thank you,
Shawn Musgrave
MuckRock
From: MuckRock.com
To Whom It May Concern:
I wanted to follow up on the following Freedom of Information request, copied below, and originally submitted on Feb. 25, 2013. Please let me know when I can expect to receive a response, or if further clarification is needed. You had assigned it reference number #F-00169-13.
Thank you for your help.
From: MuckRock.com
To Whom It May Concern:
I wanted to follow up on the following Freedom of Information request, copied below, and originally submitted on Feb. 25, 2013. Please let me know when I can expect to receive a response, or if further clarification is needed. You had assigned it reference number #F-00169-13.
Thank you for your help.
From: MuckRock.com
To Whom It May Concern:
I wanted to follow up on the following Freedom of Information request, copied below, and originally submitted on Feb. 25, 2013. Please let me know when I can expect to receive a response, or if further clarification is needed. You had assigned it reference number #F-00169-13.
Thank you for your help.
From: Pamela Smith
Dear Dr. Snider:
Unfortunately, this case was administratively closed on May 3, 2013, due to
the additional information required was never provided. The United States
Agency for International Development's (USAID) notification of intent
(highlighted below) is also part of the attached email chain.
For convenience, a copy of the final letter is attached for quick
reference. Thank you.
From: FOIA Mailbox (USAID)
Dr. Erin Snider
MuckRock News
requests@muckrock.com
Re: FOIA Request No. F-00320-13
Dear Dr. Snider,
This letter acknowledges receipt of Muckrock News' email dated August 27,
2013, requesting information pertaining to FOIA request F-00169-13 for "all
correspondence between the Center for Democracy and Governance in
Washington and USAID's Mission in Indonesia relating to democracy
programming." This request was administratively closed by our office on
May 03, 2013 as we had not received a response from you. Mr. Shawn
Musgrave contacted us explaining MuckRock's request-tracking system and
your request has been re-entered into our system on August 29, 2013.
Please use the new request number F-00320-13 when referring to this
request.
Your request is currently under review and one of our Government
Information Specialists will contact you shortly. Our office also
acknowledges the original fee waiver request, and the review process is
underway. If you have any questions in the meantime, please do not hesitate
to contact us at foia@usaid.gov or (202) 712-0960 Thank you.
Sincerely,
Monica Ringle
Program Specialist
Bureau for Management
Office of Management Services
Information and Records Division
From: FOIA Mailbox (USAID)
Dear Ms. Snider:
This acknowledges your Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) request, dated August 27, 2013. You requested “[a]ll correspondence between the Center for Democracy and Governance in Washington and USAID’s Mission in Indonesia relating to democracy programming.” Your request has been assigned tracking number F-00320-13. Please use this number when corresponding with our office. Additionally, please provide this office with a contact number so we may discuss your request further to best identify records responsive to your request.
You have been placed in the “all others” fee category. As such, you will not be charged for search and review; however, you will be charged for duplication (first 100 pages free and $0.20 per page thereafter). Should fees exceed this $50, we will notify you in writing before we continue processing this request.
Your request has been assigned to Ms. Pamela Smith. You may contact Ms. Smith by phone on (202) 712-4476 or by email at psmith@usaid.gov, and reference F-00320-13 in your correspondence.
Thank you for your interest in USAID.
Sincerely,
Alecia S. Sillah
Team Lead, Government Information Specialist
The USAID FOIA Team
From: Pamela Smith
Dear Dr. Snider:
This is the final response to your August 27, 2013, Freedom of Information
Act (FOIA) request to the United States Agency for International
Development (USAID). Specifically, you requested all correspondence
between the Center for Democracy and Governance in Washington and USAID’s
Mission in Indonesia relating to democracy programming.
By email dated September 13, 2013, USAID requested additional information
from you to assist this office with processing your request. You were
advised that if we did not receive a response from you within 10 days of
the letter, your request would be administratively closed.
To date, we have not received a response from you. We construe the
non-response to be a withdrawal of your request. Accordingly, your request
has been administratively closed and no further action will be taken on it.
No fees have been assessed.
Thank you for your interest in USAID.
From: MuckRock
Hello, please reopen F-00320-13. No substantive information related to the FOIA request was requested in the September 13, 2013 email, but only a contact phone number for the requester.
Thank you.
From: Pamela Smith
Hello Dr. Snider:
Please pay close attention to bold information.
In response to your email of October 11, you requested that FOIA Request
F-00320-13 be reopened due to that the fact that, "No substantive
information related to the FOIA request was requested in the September 13,
2013, email, but only a contact phone number for the requester." I have
attached that mentioned email and ask you to please review the first
paragraph in the last sentence that starts with *Additionally, please
provide this office with a contact number so we may discuss your request
further to best identify records responsive to your request*.
In the past, this office has asked that this request (which was under a
different FOIA case number) be modified and be more specific. The request
would need* to identify which organization you seek correspondence **for
and provide the time frame covering. As the request stands now, it is too
broad.*
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*Could you please provide a contact number so we may discuss your request
further to best identify records responsive to your request?*
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Thank you.
From: erin snider
Dear Ms. Smith,
Thank you very much for your message and your quick assistance with F-00320-13. It's very much appreciated. My contact number is 757-254-5717. Please do give me a ring should you need more clarification.
I hope the following clarifies more the original request:
I am interested in a list of organizations and individuals in Indonesia that received democracy and governance grants from USAID through the Center for Democracy and Governance from 1999-2011 including dollar amounts and program details.
I am also interested in email correspondence between the Center for Democracy and Governance in Washington and USAID's Mission in Indonesia that directly references democracy programs in the country.
Do let me know if this additional information is useful in distilling from the originial request.
Many thanks as always for your kind assistance.
Best Regards,
Dr. Erin Snider
Assistant Professor, International Affairs
Texas A&M University
7572545717
From: MuckRock.com
To Whom It May Concern:
I wanted to follow up on the following Freedom of Information request, copied below, and originally submitted on Sept. 13, 2013. Please let me know when I can expect to receive a response, or if further clarification is needed. You had assigned it reference number #F-00320-13.
Thank you for your help.
From: MuckRock.com
To Whom It May Concern:
I wanted to follow up on the following Freedom of Information request, copied below, and originally submitted on Sept. 13, 2013. Please let me know when I can expect to receive a response, or if further clarification is needed. You had assigned it reference number #F-00320-13.
Thank you for your help.
From: Alecia Sillah
Greetings Ms. Snider:
As discussed by phone on Dec. 2, 2013, USAID FOIA Request No. F-00320-13 is
closed. You may submit a new FOIA request with the requisite detail
discussed by phone to assist this office commence a search for responsive
records. The new request will receive a new USAID tracking number. Please
have MuckRock close out its tracking number for the same, 2964-73485018.
To ensure prompt handling, please ensure all requests and subsequent
requests for information are submitted to foia@usaid.gov.
Thank you.
Sincerely,
*Alecia S. Sillah *
*Team Lead, Government Information Specialist (FOIA) *
*USAID - US Agency for International Development *
*Bureau for Management, Office of Management Services, Information and
Records Division (M/MS/IRD) *
*RRB - 2.07C - **Washington, DC 20523 *
*Direct: (202) 712-1371 | asillah@usaid.gov <asillah@usaid.gov>*
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