FOI Request Engineering Playbook

Name: FOI Request Engineering Playbook
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A practical playbook for designing FOI requests that force disclosures, create durable records, and generate real leverage—no fluff, just outcomes.

Categories: Activism, Advocacy Tags: administrative law, compliance pressure, decision auditing, foi, foia, government accountability, investigations, open government, oversight, process accountability, public records, records requests, stevens method, systems debugging

Overview

Description

Most FOI guides teach access. This playbook teaches leverage.

FOI Request Engineering is the Stevens Method applied to public records: decision-first targeting, constraint-based drafting, and outcome planning that turns responses into pressure—whether the agency produces records, claims “no records,” delays, or over-redacts.

This is not a beginner’s primer. It assumes you already understand FOI basics and want a disciplined framework for building a defensible paper trail that survives scrutiny.

Know the rules:

Rule 1: Start With the Decision, Not the Document
Rule 2: Infer the Mandatory Paper Trail
Rule 3: Use “Records Sufficient To Show” Language
Rule 4: Tie Every Request to a Process Step
Rule 5: Anticipate the Response — Before You File
Rule 6: FOI Is a Pressure Tool, Not a One-Off

Inside, you’ll get:

A six-rule system for decision-focused FOI
“Records sufficient to show” drafting language that forces positions, not noise
A reusable request template you can file in minutes
A review/rewrite prompt for turning weak PRRs into decision-constraining instruments
Guidance for interpreting delay, fees, and “burdensome” objections as procedural signal

Use this when you need clarity, not vibes.

Format: PDF (digital download)
Disclaimer: Informational only. Not legal advice. Laws vary by jurisdiction.