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FOIA News: DOJ extends nomination deadline for FOIA awards

Deadline Extended: Nominate FOIA Professionals for the 2025 Sunshine Week FOIA Awards

DOJ/OIP, FOIA Post, Dec. 5, 2024

**Deadline Extended to Friday, December 13, 2024**

The Department of Justice, Office of Information Policy (OIP) is pleased to announce that nominations are open for the 2025 Sunshine Week FOIA Awards, recognizing the contributions of FOIA professionals from around the government.  As the Attorney General recognized in his FOIA Guidelines issued in March 2022, “[t]he federal government could not process the hundreds of thousands of FOIA requests that are received every year without its dedicated FOIA professionals.”  Agency FOIA professionals are at the center of ensuring successful FOIA administration and we look forward to celebrating the work of these individuals from around the government.  For this year’s event, OIP is seeking nominations for five categories of awards:

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