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FOIA News: Recap of CFO Council meeting

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Chief FOIA Officers Meeting Recap

By NARA/OGIS, FOIA Ombudsman, Nov. 16, 2023

The Chief FOIA Officers Council (CFOC) met on November 9 to discuss a variety of topics of interest to Chief FOIA Officers and FOIA professionals. Deputy Archivist of the United States, Debra Steidel Wall, and Associate Attorney General of the United States, Vanita Gupta, offered opening remarks to the attendees. You can view the entire meeting on the National Archives YouTube channel. Below is a recap of the meeting. 

  • Deputy Assistant Secretary for Global Information Services at the U.S. State Department, Eric Stein, provided a brief overview of two artificial intelligence (AI) or machine learning pilots launched at the State Department in the last year. One was on declassification review and the second on processing FOIA requests. 

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