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Defensive Standards Hinder FOIA Openness
When the Obama administration came to office in January 2009, it promised openness and transparency in government. On his first full day in office, President Barack Obama issued a memorandum concerning...
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New data confirm DOJ’s subpar FOIA performance
A new analysis of FOIA cases filed in the U.S. District Courts reveals that fully 30 percent of all FOIA lawsuits filed last year were brought against the Department of Justice (DOJ). The DOJ also...
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FOIA Lawsuits Increase During Obama Administration
Syracuse, NY — A new study by the Transactional Records Access Clearinghouse (TRAC) has found that there were more court complaints asking federal judges to force the government to abide by the Freedom...
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Did the DOJ Accurately Report on Your FOIA Lawsuit?
Noted FOIA attorney David Sobel brought to our attention several inaccuracies in the Department of Justice’s recently issued 2012 FOIA Compliance and Litigation Report. Specifically, on page 15 of the...
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Another Error in DOJ Compliance and Litigation Report
Anne L. Weismann, Chief Counsel for Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics in Washington, has brought to our attention another case in which the DOJ inaccurately reported the status of a FOIA lawsuit....
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Vote for the Worst FOIA Failure
Note: There is a poll embedded within this post, please visit the site to participate in this post's poll. Democracy depends on educated citizens who know what their government is doing. The Freedom of...
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CIA “Wins” Inaugural FOIA Failure Award
The National Security Archive first filed a Freedom of Information Act request for the Central Intelligence Agency’s five-volume Official History of the Bay of Pigs Operation a decade ago, in 2005. CIA...
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We have made the following updates to the Agency FOIA Backlogs and Processing Times data tool: Data for DoD – Navy updated through March 2016 Data for DOJ – Drug Enforcement Administration updated...
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We have made the following update to the Agency FOIA Backlogs and Processing Times data tool: Data for DOJ – Justice Management Division updated through March 2016.
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We have made the following update to the Agency FOIA Backlogs and Processing Times data tool: Data for DOJ – National Security Division updated through March 2016.
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We have made the following update to the Agency FOIA Backlogs and Processing Times data tool: Data for DOJ – Bureau of Prisons and Environmental Protection Agency updated through June 2016.
View ArticleUpdate to FOIA Backlogs and Processing Times data tool
We have made the following update to the Agency FOIA Backlogs and Processing Times data tool: Data for DoD – Army, DoD – Air Force Headquarters,DOI – Fish and Wildlife Service and DHS – U.S....
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We have updated the Agency FOIA Backlogs and Processing Times data tool. Data has been updated for these agencies: DoD – Army through September 2016 DHS – Customs and Border Protection through...
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We have updated the Agency FOIA Backlogs and Processing Times data tool. Data has been updated for these agencies: DOJ – Public Affairs through September 2016 DOJ – Office of Legal Policy through...
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We have made the following update to the Agency FOIA Backlogs and Processing Times data tool: Data for Treasury – IRS updated through September 2015.
View ArticleUpdate to FOIA Backlogs and Processing Times data tool
We have updated the Agency FOIA Backlogs and Processing Times data tool. Data has been updated for these agencies: DOI-Fish and Wildlife Service through September 2016 DOJ-Bureau of Prisons through...
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FOIA Backlog Skyrockets at U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services
The backlog of unprocessed FOIA requests to the U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS) continues to climb. In just a two-year period, the backlog of unanswered FOIA requests has tripled,...
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We have updated the Agency FOIA Backlogs and Processing Times data tool. Data has been updated for these agencies: DOJ – Criminal through September 2016 DOI – Bureau of Land Management through March...
View ArticleDepartment of Justice Official Uses Sunshine Week Event to Spread...
At a recent Sunshine Week1 event, a Department of Justice spokesperson claimed that FOIA applicants are now quicker to litigate, then blamed overly-litigious requesters for straining the workloads of...
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