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.

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.

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, ...

Journalists and watchdogs can’t tell you what government agencies are doing if those agencies don’t provide public information they are legally required to provide. Not surprisingly, ma ...

Ignoring Freedom of Information Act requests during the crisis damages democracy. By The Editorial Board The editorial board is a group of opinion journalists whose views are informed by expertise ...

It’s a bit harder to see how—even if they wanted to—government could meet the challenge of regularly, preemptively, and manageably releasing the discrete documents, reports, and memos that are ...