Today the U.S. Department of Homeland Security posted a Departmental FOIA Backlog Reduction Plan: 2020 - 2023, which includes “five goals that lay out a sustainable course for containing and reducing the age of the backlog in the short-term, and sustainably lowering the size of the backlog over the next three to five years.” DHS receives more FOIA requests annually than any other federal agency. The department’s backlog at the end of FY 2019 was 31,454 requests, down from 53,971 at the end of FY 2018.