Newport News enhances transparency with a new VFOIA protocol, improving public access to government records via an online ...

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.

Over the past decade I've submitted hundreds of records requests to federal agencies through the Freedom of Information Act ...

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 ...

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 ...

Virginia Freedom of Information Act. Records Request. Records requests may be made to the FOIA Officer via U.S. mail, fax, e-mail, in person, or over the phone. Pamela Mason Chief Compliance ...

A Freedom of Information Act request from the Oversight Project may potentially open a new avenue for mass deportations, according to one lawyer involved.

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 ...

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 ...

Since its enactment almost 60 years ago, the Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) has been updated multiple times, often in order to try to stop prior federal agency or department practices that ...