FOIA Advisor has learned that Daniel Metcalfe, a Freedom of Information Act luminary for the past five decades, died last month at the age of 72. Dan co-founded the Department of Justice’s Office of Information and Privacy with Richard Huff in November 1981. After Mr. Huff retired in 2005, Dan led OIP as Director until his own retirement in January 2007. He subsequently established and ran the Collaboration on Government Secrecy, an educational project devoted to transparency, at the American University Washington College of Law. In 2023, Dan published a book, Inside Justice: Secrecy at Work, which chronicles his FOIA career and addresses numerous transparency issues.