ADL W 5

 SHORT ANSWER ESSAY: Answer questions 1-4 below. Your responses should be in short answer essay format (approximately 500 words each).  Please copy or restate the question before providing your answer.  Submit your response as a PDF document.

1) Chapter 4 talks about some methods an agency may use to obtain records, testimony, or other information. Legal principles/standards are used to determine the legality of an agency's demand for information. Identify (and in your own words explain) those four standards.  See pages 136-141.

2) The fifth amendment protects a person from being compelled to incriminate oneself. However, this privilege against self-incrimination has limitations in the administrative context. Identify those limitations and explain each. See pages 142 - 148.

3) Identify and explain the pertinent sections of FOIA which govern an agency's obligation to provide information, including various exemptions. See pages 154 - 164.

4) Identify and explain the federal law which governs open meetings. See pages 164-167.