Loosely coining this effort, the FOIA Compliance Framework , it would provide uniformity and consistency among the entirety of the federal government to enhance FOIA’s transparency mandate.

Background In November 2024, Elon Musk posted on social media, "There should be no need for [Freedom of Information Act] ... FOIA has been updated three times to tighten agency compliance, ...

Looking Forward: The Future of FOIA Processing As the federal government braces for what could be another record-breaking year of FOIA requests in FY 2024, the need for innovative solutions is clear.

In fact, Leopold says FOIA compliance has gotten worse since the 2016 amendments, which were supposed to force agencies to operate under a presumption of disclosure and stop hiding records merely ...

To be clear, the federal government’s FOIA compliance is already in a dire state. The Biden administration is far from a beacon of transparency when it comes to responsiveness to FOIA requests. As of ...

Federal agency and department leaders are not going to take FOIA compliance seriously unless and until they know their entire organizations will suffer unless they produce the records requested ...

In this episode of Tax Notes Talk, Tax Notes chief correspondent Amanda Athanasiou discusses her recent investigation into the IRS's handling of Freedom of Information Act requests and trends from ...