FOIA News: DHS releases 2021 annual report
The U.S. Department of Homeland Security, which fields more FOIA requests than any other agency, published its fiscal year 2021 annual FOIA report on March 1, 2021. Of note, DHS received 442,650 requests and processed 467,347 requests, increases of 11.3 percent (397,671) and 19 percent (392,623), respectively, from FY 2020. Further, DHS cut its backlog of requests by 30.9 percent, from 36,350 requests in FY 2020 to 25,102 requests in FY 2021.