On August 15, 2025, the Office of Information Policy posted a revised version of the Procedural Requirements section of the DOJ Guide to the Freedom of Information Act. Those looking for recent case citations will be disappointed: the “updated” 94-page section “primarily includes case law, guidance and statutes up until June 30, 2023,” per OIP’s first footnote. True to its word, we found only one case from 2024 (see footnote 227) and none from 2025. The remaining changes are mostly citations to OIP guidance that the office updated in the last two years and to DOJ’s own FOIA regulations.
In the words of Alexander Pope, ‘Blessed is he who expects nothing, for he shall never be disappointed.’”