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Noncompliance Reporting and FOIA - May 2017

Audience: IACUC members

Goals:
  • Understand the concept of noncompliance and how and why we report
  • Understand the impact of the Freedom of Information Act as it relates to noncompliance reporting
Objectives:
  • Define noncompliance
  • Assess whether events are noncompliant
  • Outline noncompliance reporting requirements of OLAW & USDA
  • Predict possible outcomes of reporting noncompliance
  • Justify why we report noncompliance
  • Recognize appropriate content of a noncompliance report and what can make it FOIA ready
Module Developers: Marilyn Brown, Jessi Kittel, Jane Na, David Powell, Bridget Watson
 
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Submit comments or questions to olawdpe@mail.nih.gov.