FOIA Docs Received on Refugee Resettlement

FOIA Docs Received on Refugee Resettlement

Home Business Politics Secure Virginia Health Energy Editorial Make Virginia Great Again Update         Be a FOIA Virginian!   You can and I Did! And ... Make Virginia Great Again! The Virginia Citizen is not privy to the FOIA documents we just received and just because Trump won, we can not relax as we must get transparency at the state and local level.   Can I make a statement? NEVER DEPEND ON THE FEDERAL GOVERNMENT TO FIX ANYTHING LOCALLY!   Trump Admin could freeze refugee resettlement until the next presidential election or end up in court.    UPDATE: On November 17th I picked up a large box of documents from my FOIA request (freedom of information act) from the Office of Newcomer Services downtown Richmond.   These were available to me in hard copy only.  I must say, they responded fast and were very proactive on my request, and nice as can be! But to make these available to all Virginians, have to get the thousands of pages into the digital and searchable world.   So, for the last week, my resources have been going through the cumbersome and time consuming scanning process which is  using the  correct software to produce searchable documents in a PDF with OCR (Optical Character Recognition technology).  This allows citizens, legislators and others to search the entire FIOA by keyword.  Plus you have dozens and more stapled docs which have to be unstapled, examined, settings adjusted, scanned and then re-staple the documents.  This is a truly laborious process My hope is to share this publicly to all Virginians and allow the grassroots to have true transparency and see how the inner workings look like between the refugee resettlement contract, the state of Virginia and the federal office of the Office of Refugee Resettlement.  I have looked to see if anything like this has been done in other states and haven't seen it, but could well have been done.   This is also the reason you have not received a newsletter in many days as the presidential election and other priorities, such as this research,  has devoured the time.    SUPPORT VIRGINIA FREE CITIZEN WATCH  Due to lack of funds, we are shutting down our mailing address and can accept ONLINE payments only.  Or call me directly, my phone number below, and we can arrange check options. Thank you for anything you can give today and call me anytime, would love to hear from you. Jeff Bayard 804-869-4485 Virginia Free Citizen Resource Page: Virginia Free Citizen Watch This email was sent to va@peninsulateaparty.org. This email was never sent unsolicited. You have received this VirginiaFreeCitizen.com email because you subscribed to it or someone forwarded it to you. To opt out, see links below. If this email has been forwarded to you and you would like to sign up: SUBSCRIBE TO OPT OUT Remove your email address from our list. We respect your right to privacy. View our policy This email was sent by: The Virgina Free Citizen, 2711 Buford Road, Suite 105, Richmond, VA 23235