The Department of Justice will celebrate Sunshine Week on Thursday, March 12 from 10m to noon in the Great Hall of Main Justice. This event will include a keynote by the Principal Deputy Associate Attorney General of the United States, as well as the Department’s annual Sunshine Week FOIA Awards Ceremony.
FOIA data for fiscal year 2019 released last week indicated that DOJ’s backlog increased 46 percent from FY 2018 (from 17,411 requests to 25,558 requests), much of which was attributed to the Executive Office for Immigration Review.