I love the idea. I feel so sorry for the one person who is left in the department for FOIA requests.
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Trump and Musk are going to respond to this effort by firing that person.
And then we can all individually file lawsuits against DOGE. No class action.
We can automate that, too. I’d be more than happy to work with a similarly-charitably-minded lawyer to automate the document generation process for filing the lawsuits, based on the particular context of DOGE’s individual response (or lack thereof).
Seriously - if you know the legal things around this stuff, DM me; we can probably whiteboard out the reasonably common cases.
And before you ask: no; LLMs are not the answer here.
Why? It's easy to respond to all requests with 💩
Even easier to just ignore them.
But then they might have to held accountable. If they just accidentally, preemptively set the mailbox quota to 16 kilobytes, though...
"What FOIA requests? All we have is this single spam email"
And then you can sue them.
And then you can sue them.
Seems like it would be a pretty easy job manning the shredder.
This is a great idea, and I don't want to discourage anyone from doing this, but FYI, be very careful on filling out the second link ('HERE') with your contact information.
Be sure to check out that 'Privacy Policy' link at the bottom of the page. Your contact info is available to the government, and that's usually public information that others can see/use.
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Fuck this noise. Stand up for what you believe. It might be a negative outcome but that is how every change in history starts.
Mrs. Parks should have sat in the seat until they threatened her with the police.
Students Allison Krause, Jeffrey Miller, Sandra Lee Scheuer, and William Shroeder should have protested until they hear the national guard was on the way.
We need to stand unitied against this threat!
He's talking about signing up for the guy's mailing list or whatever at the second link. I'm only going to do that FOIA request. I'm going to fill them out for my friends to sign and I'll mail them. It's totally legal to do this, as long as they sign. I would put them in a mail dropbox if you have more than one though just to be safe.
Wasn’t the entire FOIA office rif’d?
Just printed my forms out, let's annoy some assholes.
Fill them out for friends and family! All you need is their signature then drop a stack into a USPS dropbox.