How transparent is FOIA?

By Chase Gunter, FCW, Mar 13, 2018

On Capitol Hill, senators are complaining that there's too little transparency surrounding the government's premier transparency law.

While the Department of Justice recently launched a one-stop shop to centralize the submissions of Freedom of Information Act requests, Republican and Democratic senators alike expressed frustrations with agencies' actual responses — or lack thereof — to records requests.

"No one can say with a straight face that FOIA always works as intended," said Senate Judiciary Committee Chairman Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa) at a March 13 hearing.

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