Following up on Daniel's post this week (Using FOIA in book writing [1]), here is a rather comprehensive review of the state information access: FOIA and beyond. The article is from a symposium on "Harnessing The Power Of Information For The Next Generation Of Environmental Law."

• Information Access—Surveying the Current Legal Landscape of Federal Right-to-Know Laws [2], by David C. Vladeck, Texas Law Review Volume 86, Number 7, June 2008 (reprinted at redOrbit).

In practice ... this net of government-information statutes provides what is at best a piecemeal and not entirely satisfactory pathway to needed environmental information and is at worst the illusion of a right of access where none exists.