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FOIA News: Deadline arrives for posting annual FOIA reports

FOIA News (2015-2023)Allan BlutsteinComment

Agencies must post their annual FOIA reports on their website on or before Monday, March 1, 2021. The cabinet agencies that have not yet posted their reports as of February 28, 2021, are HHS, DHS, Education, Energy, DOJ, Labor, and Treasury.

In case you missed them, the Defense Department and the State Department recently posted their annual reports. Each suffered double-digit percentage increases in their request backlogs: DOD’s backlog rose from 13198 to 16000 (or 21 percent); and State’s climbed from 11016 to 13798 (or 25 percent).