On the day of its filing deadline, the U.S. Department of Justice posted its annual report for fiscal year 2021. Notable metrics are as follows:

• 97,490 requests received, an increase of 12.4 percent from FY 2020 (86,729 requests)

• 75,511 requests processed, a decrease of 10.6 percent from FY 2020 (84,442 requests)

• 49,959 backlogged requests, an increase of 66.9 percent from FY 2020 (29,933 requests)

• 51 median days to process simple requests, an increase of 54.4 percent from FY 2020 (33 median days)

Links to other agency reports are listed on DOJ’s website here.