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 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 ...

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.

A new change to the Air Force's Freedom of Information Act submission portal, asking whether individuals seeking public information from the service would agree to accept only "clearly releasable ...

Through three pilot projects, the department has successfully streamlined the document review process for declassification and improved the customer experience when it comes to FOIA (Freedom of ...

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 ...

When pressed on the transparency efforts she would like to see implemented into law, Benson returned to the idea of opening the legislature and governor’s office to the FOIA process. The idea ...