Summary and Assessment of Agency 2018 Chief FOIA Officer Reports Issued

Dep't of Justice, Office of Info. Pol'y, July 19, 2018

Today OIP released the summary and assessment of agencies’ 2018 Chief FOIA Officer Reports.  The Chief FOIA Officer Reports, which detail the steps their agencies have taken to embrace the Department of Justice's FOIA Guidelines, serve as a valuable resource for agencies to describe the various initiatives undertaken to improve their administration of the FOIA. This past March marked the ninth year that agency Chief FOIA Officers submitted these reports to the Department of Justice.

OIP’s summary is broken down into five parts detailing the efforts of agencies in each of the five key areas addressed in the Department's FOIA Guidelines:

• Applying the Presumption of Openness,
• Having Effective Systems for Responding to Requests,
• Making Information Available Proactively,
• Utilizing Technology, and
• Reducing Backlogs and Improving Timeliness.

Agencies and the public are encouraged to read both OIP’s summary and each agency’s individual report to learn more about the various efforts and steps taken over the last reporting year to improve the administration of the FOIA across the government.

Read more here.