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The guidelines, published earlier this week, detail 10 tips on how scientists can fully comply with any requests for records without putting themselves at unnecessary risk of harassment. These include: -- Identify a point person within the institution who will be responsible for state open records requests and federal FOIA requests to ensure the system facilitates an orderly response. -- Do not post personal information in the public domain. -- Do not provide extraneous information that is not required by law; extraneous information may be taken out of context and used by animal rights activists to target you. -- Review all exemptions to determine whether sensitive information falls within the protection of an exemption. -- Keep all records required by law or otherwise necessary for business, research or operational purposes. linkurl:Click here;http://www.nabr.org/uploadedFiles/nabrorg/Content/Animal_Law/Responding_to_FOIA_Requests.pdf to view the complete list of guidelines.
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