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 ...

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.

(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.) ...

A former official in President Barack Obama's White House lodged a Freedom of Information Act request for files related to ...

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 ...

The Freedom of Information Act lets the public request access to government emails. Officials—from Hillary Clinton to Anthony Fauci's adviser—keep trying to get around it.

These FOIA requests seek all federal contractors’ Type 2, or consolidated, EEO-1 Reports for 2021. We have previously reported on a similar FOIA request by Will Evans with the Center for ...

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.