While some agencies have begun restoring FOIA personnel, others still appear to still have their offices closed like the CDC.

Whether you’re a business owner, researcher, journalist, or private citizen, understanding the FOIA process — and how to challenge an agency’s response — is essential for ensuring your ...

But experts widely agree the FOIA process must be modernized and fixed, as requests can sometimes take months, even years, to fulfill. An increasing number of requesters have turned to the courts ...

The Privacy Act outlines the responsibilities of federal agencies to safeguard the privacy of personally identifiable information (PII) contained within agency ...

And, like eDiscovery, the FOIA process is too often difficult, risky, expensive, and slow. So slow that some agencies claim it will take the better part of a century to review and produce documents.

the use of AI tools to improve the FOIA filing process and help to clear up their backlogs of unfilled requests. The Chief FOIA Officers Council, which works to enhance the administration and ...

can greatly speed up this process by automating the search and analysis of vast datasets. AI tools can group and prioritize documents based on their relevance to the FOIA request, helping teams ...

USDS, on the other hand, refuses to process CREW’s request to it on the grounds that USDS is not an ‘agency’ subject to FOIA,” the court explained. Cooper called bullshit on this and ruled ...

as agencies process and store increasing volumes of sensitive data, the risk of cyberattacks has never been higher. Requesters’ rights to litigation mean that agencies must hold onto FOIA ...

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