Some agencies fall behind on FOIA.gov interoperability requirements

By Rebecca Heilweil, FedScoop, Sept. 15, 2023

A number of federal agencies, including the Secret Service and U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services, are still working to become interoperable with FOIA.gov —  a hiccup in the slow-going effort to standardize the public records request process at the federal level and create a national FOIA system. 

Many agencies have updated their public records systems in order to ensure their systems work with FOIA.gov, a requirement established in a 2019 White House memo, according to a recent FedScoop review of 2023 Chief FOIA Officer reports and subsequent inquiries sent to agencies. But others are still running into technical and logistical issues.

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