FOIA Reports

Quarterly Reports

In accordance with the Electronic FOIA Amendments of 1996, each federal agency is required to submit annual reports regarding FOIA activities and make these reports electronically available. These reports contain basic information such as how and where to make FOIA requests, program costs, and processing statistics.

• The number of requests received during the reporting period
• The number of requests processed during the reporting period
• The number of requests in an agency’s backlog at the end of the reporting period
• The progress being made to close the agency’s ten overall oldest pending FOIA requests from the previous Fiscal Year

Chief FOIA Officer Reports

On March 19, 2009, Attorney General Holder issued new FOIA guidelines which called on all agencies to reaffirm the government’s “commitment to accountability and transparency. In accordance with these commitments, the Attorney General directed agency Chief FOIA Officers to review “all aspects of their agencies' FOIA administration” and to report each year to the Department of Justice on the steps taken “to improve FOIA operations and facilitate information disclosure.”