The U.S. Department of State has posted its fiscal year 2024 annual FOIA report. Here are the key metrics:
Requests received jumped from 15,713 in FY 2023 to 22,306 an increase of nearly 42 percent. This is the second-highest number of requests received by State since FY 2008, exceeded only by its FY 2017 total of 27,852).
Requests processed climbed from 12,576 in FY 2023 to 20,775 in FY 2024, an increase of 65 percent
Backlogged requests decreased ever so slightly from 21,619 in FY 2023 to 21,615 in FY 2024.
Backlogged appeals dropped from 272 in FY 2023 to 126 in FY 2024, a 53.6 percent decrease
$0 collected for processing requests.
$33.2 million in processing costs; $2 million in litigation-related costs.
For all processed perfected requests, 563.92 average days by main DOS for “complex” requests.
Ten oldest perfected requests have been pending between 4183 and 4289 days.