Activities / What code does
Files records requests
statutory_requests
Your app automatically submits public-records or freedom-of-information requests to a government body on a user's behalf.
- scope code
- in the registry since 1.0
- 1 law in 1 jurisdiction name it
What triggers it
The lint's definition. It files requests with public bodies under a public-records, freedom-of-information or similar statutory right, by software or at scale. Messages that market or notify are automated_outreach.
This covers a tool that files a public-records or freedom-of-information request for a user, and a service that sends the same request to many agencies at once.
What does not
An app that only helps a user draft a request they send themselves does not count in the same way.
Often confused with Sends automated outreach.
The law it brings into scope
The kinds of law that name this activity in the LexLint law library, with the number of laws and jurisdictions in each, as of . The examples are chosen by rule, laws in force first and the widest jurisdiction first; each section's page lists every law.
| Area of law | Laws | Jurisdictions |
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AI law
Tell people when they are dealing with an AI system or its output, and control the uses the law calls high-risk.
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1 | 1 |
Counterparties that usually come with it
- a public body's request portal
- the mail service that delivers each request
A component that cannot run as documented without one of these names
it in its ACTIVITIES.md under talks_to, with
required: true. That party's jurisdiction then joins the
run of every product that uses the component, and the finding says
why it is there. A default the deployer can change is asked about,
never added. Talking to a party never makes a product that party.
In a declaration
A library or framework that makes this possible enables
it; an application whose shipped code does it performs it.
For a library
For an application
History
In the registry since version 1.0, .
In the glossary: Files records requests.
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