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LESSON 3

PRACTICE EXERCISE

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The following items will test your understanding of the material covered in this lesson. There is only one correct answer for each item. When you have completed the exercise, check your answers with the answer key that follows. If you answer any item incorrectly, review that part of the lesson which contains the portion involved.
1. Which regulation has a formal control system designed to ensure compliance with FOIA?

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2. If a member of the news media requests a nonexempt record that contains identifying information on another individual, can the record be released?  If yes, how? If no, why not? 
3. When exercising its discretionary authority, DOD components can release exempt records if the release does not jeopardize government interests.

 A. True.
B. False.
4. If an unclassified document should have been classified when an FOIA request is received but was not, can it be denied on the grounds it is classified?

A. Yes.
B. No.
5. Are personal notes made by an agent, but not communicated or made part of a file, subject to FOIA?

A. Yes.
B. No.
6. What action is taken by the DOD component if a request is received that does not "reasonably describe" the requested record?
7. The Army privacy program, which implements the Privacy Act of 1974, is found in which Army Regulation?

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8. What is the purpose of DA Form 4368-R?
9. If an individual requests access to his own personnel record under FOIA and the request is denied, the provisions of what act should be used to justify the denial?

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