Monday, September 12, 2005

FOIA Saxa

Now that it seems rather clear that there's little reason to be confident that much contingency planning for large-scale disasters has taken place at the federal level, I think it's time that Cole Slaw Blog makes a gentle suggestion: Someone, anyone (preferably someone smarter than we) needs to request federal or state and local contingency plans for evacuating large urban areas, right?

It's been four years since the unimaginable became all too imaginable, and we've recently learned that when it comes to evacuating large metropolitan areas, it'd be foolish to assume that those responsible have a plan. This, I think, is what open-records laws were made for.

While I can evision certain parts of the plan being sensitive, surely there's enough bare-bones information in there to confirm that someone, somewhere, has a clue.

No comments: