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FOIA News: "FOIA.gov" updated with FY 2020 data

FOIA News (2015-2023)Allan BlutsteinComment

NEW ANNUAL FOIA REPORT DATA PAGE AND AGENCIES' FISCAL YEAR 2020 DATA NOW AVAILABLE ON FOIA.GOV

By DOJ/OIP, FOIA Post, Mar. 2, 2021

The Office for Information Policy (OIP) is pleased to announce that it has recently upgraded the Annual Report Data page on FOIA.gov.  Since its initial launch in 2011, FOIA.gov has served as a dashboard of all agencies' Annual FOIA Report data.  Each year, federal departments and agencies are required by law to submit a report to the Attorney General detailing various statistics regarding their agency’s FOIA activities, such as the numbers of requests processed and received, and the time taken to process them.  The data from all of these Annual FOIA Reports is then published on FOIA.gov, the Justice Department’s government-wide FOIA resource, so that the public can easily view it and compare FOIA data by agency and over time.

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