On the day of its filing deadline, the U.S. Department of Justice posted its annual report for fiscal year 2021. Notable metrics are as follows:
97,490 requests received, an increase of 12.4 percent from FY 2020 (86,729 requests)
75,511 requests processed, a decrease of 10.6 percent from FY 2020 (84,442 requests)
49,959 backlogged requests, an increase of 66.9 percent from FY 2020 (29,933 requests)
51 median days to process simple requests, an increase of 54.4 percent from FY 2020 (33 median days)
Links to other agency reports are listed on DOJ’s website here.