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FOIA News: OGIS recaps Sunshine Week

FOIA News (2015-2023)Allan BlutsteinComment

Sunshine Week in the Age of Social Distancing

Office of Gov’t Info. Serv., Mar. 20, 2020 

As the sun sets on Sunshine Week, we hope you will continue to celebrate access to information with some interesting reading. 

First, a reminder that OGIS published its 2020 Annual Report for Fiscal Year 2019 highlighting the work we do as FOIA Ombudsman to make the process work better for all through dispute resolution and agency compliance review.  The U.S. Department of Justice, Office of Information Policy (OIP), also published a report listing all FOIA litigation cases filed and decided in 2019 and detailing OIP’s work to encourage FOIA compliance. Earlier this month, OIP announced that all 118 agencies subject to the FOIA have finalized their Fiscal Year (FY) 2019 Annual FOIA Reports. OIP has uploaded all of the data from these reports on FOIA.gov.

Read more here.