In FY 2024, over 200,000 Freedom of Information Act requests were backlogged, according to the Government Accountability ...

The State Democracy Defenders Fund, a Democrat-aligned legal hub, on Monday filed a series of Freedom of Information Act ...

President Barack Obama further reformed the law with the FOIA Improvement Act of 2016, which required agencies to update their FOIA regulations and create a centralized online portal for requests.

(For information on drafting a FOIA request on behalf of a state or local government, see Drafting a Federal FOIA Request in the Fall 2022 issue of Practical Law the Journal.) ...

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 ...

The oldest reported Freedom of Information Act request in the federal government resides at the Justice Department and is 18 years old -- or, as the National Security Archive, a research group ...

The federal government responded to 454,911 FOIA requests in part or in full during FY 2016, for example, and that’s just a fraction of the 788,769 FOIA requests received during that same period.

The number of FOIA requests to the county this year will nearly triple the amount from five years ago, increasing to over 1,000 this and last year, according to county Corporation Counsel John Scapka.

Coinbase submitted a Freedom of Information Act request on Monday to the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission to account for how much its “regulation-by-enforcement campaign waged against ...

Several school district officials said they are being inundated with Right-to-Know requests filed by FOIA Buddy, a business aiming to simplify public use of the Freedom of Information Act. Ever ...

What's at Stake In May 2011, the ACLU filed a Freedom of Information Act request with the Justice Department seeking information about the government's use and interpretation of Patriot Act Section ...

Jack Jordan, an attorney for the county’s legal counsel, Kallman Legal Group, recently reported that Freedom of Information Act requests increased dramatically in 2023.