{"id":143114,"date":"2023-06-20T09:15:44","date_gmt":"2023-06-20T13:15:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=143114"},"modified":"2023-06-20T08:11:01","modified_gmt":"2023-06-20T12:11:01","slug":"house-gop-proposal-would-require-veterans-consent-before-granting-foia-request","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=143114","title":{"rendered":"House GOP proposal would require veteran&#8217;s consent before granting FOIA request"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: center\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/06\/Soldier-giving-military-records-to-reporter-03.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-143115\" src=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/06\/Soldier-giving-military-records-to-reporter-03-300x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/06\/Soldier-giving-military-records-to-reporter-03-300x300.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/06\/Soldier-giving-military-records-to-reporter-03-333x333.jpg 333w, https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/06\/Soldier-giving-military-records-to-reporter-03-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/06\/Soldier-giving-military-records-to-reporter-03-768x768.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/06\/Soldier-giving-military-records-to-reporter-03.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>A House GOP proposal would make it illegal for the military to release information about currently serving military members, or veterans, without their consent. Normally, organizations and individuals can submit a FOIA request. If information is found, or is available, then the information &#8220;releasable to the public&#8221; is provided to the one that made the request. However, if this proposal becomes reality, then the individual that is the subject of the request, or their next of kin if the individual is deceased, will need to provide consent prior to release.<\/p>\n<p><strong><span style=\"color: #0000ff\">From NBC News:<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Under the new proposal, members of the public, new organizations and some employers would have to file a Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) request with the military service branch to obtain the information, and the individual must be notified before the information can be released. But the FOIA process is notoriously backlogged and can take months or even years to fulfill a request.<\/p>\n<p>The only exception would be if the request comes from a federal government entity or state and local law enforcement, which the military can fulfill.<\/p>\n<p>Pentagon spokesperson Cmdr. Nicole Schwegman declined to comment, saying, &#8220;It would be inappropriate to comment on pending legislation.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The Republican bill comes after several high-profile cases in which the Pentagon erroneously released the private information of GOP politicians who are former service members. Earlier this year, the Air Force informed Nebraska Rep. Don Bacon, a retired Air Force Brigadier General, and Iowa Rep. Zach Nunn, a former Air Force officer, that their personal records were mistakenly released without their consent during the midterm election campaigns. The person who requested Bacon&#8217;s and Nunn&#8217;s records has ties to the Democratic Party.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>NBC News has the rest of the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nbcnews.com\/news\/house-gop-moves-ban-public-access-service-members-military-records-rcna90031\">article<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A House GOP proposal would make it illegal for the military to release information about currently &hellip; <a title=\"House GOP proposal would require veteran&#8217;s consent before granting FOIA request\" class=\"hm-read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=143114\"><span class=\"screen-reader-text\">House GOP proposal would require veteran&#8217;s consent before granting FOIA request<\/span>Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":661,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,13,226],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-143114","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics","category-society","category-veterans-in-the-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/143114","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/661"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=143114"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/143114\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=143114"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=143114"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=143114"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}