FOIA Act for airplane accident records?

[user123]

What is the name of your state? IL.

I am in a situation where some coworkers and I would like to request records on an airplane accident our company had last year. Reason being that the company appears to be "less than up front" on questions from the pilot group regarding the accident. Hopefully I am gone to something better soon......but I still want the facts

I am thinking of requesting the records under the Freedom of Information Act (FOIA). Ideally, all FAA and NTSB records concerning the accident (investigator notes, reports, etc).

some links are here

[url]http://www.ntsb.gov/info/foia.htm[/url]

[url]http://www.faa.gov/foia/[/url]

I would also like to request records under various state FOIA-type statutes, like police department reports and Fire/EMS reports relating to accident.

If it sounds like my coworkers and I are almost conducting our own analysis, well, we are.....

Can my employer "find out" who made these requests or is this protected under the law somehow? Are they (CEO, etc) notified that "Joe Blow made an FOIA request for these records" or similar? Should I use a lawyer to get this information instead?

comments, advice wanted

- Just trying to find out THE TRUTH

[You Are Guilty]

Since I guess it's not as obvious as I thought, requests to get public records are themselves public records subject to a FOIA request.