According to quarterly data available on FOIA.gov for fiscal year 2024, the Department of Justice received 131,219 FOIA requests, processed 157,586 requests, and ended the year with 21,625 backlogged requests—a 50 percent backlog reduction from FY 2023 (43,927 backlogged requests). This marks DOJ’s lowest number of backlogged requests since the end of FY 2018 (17,411). The number of requests received and processed by DOJ are both record highs (as of 2008, the oldest data available on FOIA.gov), and both exceeded DOJ’s FY 2023’s totals (110.934 and 144,065, respectively).

DOJ typically receives the most requests annually behind the Department of Homeland Security, whose data for the fourth quarter of FY 2024 has not yet been posted.