Exploring Legislation And Examples Of Guidance Documents

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Guidance legislation are the acts, status and delegations and guidance documents to all administrative agencies of government. For instance, the Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) AND Results Act are examples of guidance legislation. This types of acts served as guidance documents to help to regulate the administrative behavior of bureaucrats. The guidance legislation also allows the government to control and allows the courts to evaluate and monitor the agencies’ administrative behavior. According to Cann (2006) argued, “… they allow citizens to access the information that agencies have (FOIA) and to force government policy making to be conducted in open hearings (Sunshine Act)” (p. 77). The FOIA act allows citizens to request their records