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FOIA News: FBI suspends use of FOIA portal due to virus

FOIA News (2015-2023)Allan BlutsteinComment

The FBI will not accept requests or send responses through its “eFOIPA” portal due to the Coronauvirus pandemic, according to an announcement on the agency’s web page. Requests will be accepted only via standard mail.

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The FBI’a announcement did not explain how it would be safer or more efficient to rely on standard mail instead of an electronic system, nor can the author of this post imagine how it could.