Lawyers’ pleas for extensions reveal post-DOGE staffing woes at federal agencies’ Freedom of Information Act offices.

The Justice Department is creating a wizard to help Americans making requests under the Freedom of Information Act, or FOIA. The project is meant to help people locate any information that is already ...

State law dictates certain time constraints that the government has to adhere to in responding to requests, Byrum explained.

A number of federal agencies, including the Secret Service and U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services, are still working to become interoperable with FOIA.gov — a hiccup in the slow-going effort to ...

The State Department is testing out the use of artificial intelligence for declassifying decades-old cables and helping members of the public pinpoint what they want in public records or through the ...

In November 2024, Elon Musk posted on social media, "There should be no need for [Freedom of Information Act] requests. All government data should be default public for maximum transparency." His ...

To another FOIA request about President Biden’s plan to spend billions to hire 87,000 new agents, the IRS initially claimed that there were no records at all. The agency in charge of collecting taxes ...

NEWPORT NEWS, Va. — Newport News has rolled out a new Virginia Freedom of Information Act (VFOIA) Responses Protocol, aiming to enhance transparency and streamline public access to government records.

A search tool was added Wednesday to the federal government’s website for Freedom of Information Act requests, a move intended to ease public efforts in finding commonly requested information. The ...

“….[W]e file Freedom of Information Act requests with government agencies, comb through industry reports, crunch numbers, and interview and photograph people out ...

Get the latest federal technology news delivered to your inbox. The Department of Justice is creating a wizard to help Americans making requests under the Freedom of Information Act, or FOIA. The ...