The Department of Justice’s Office of Information Policy has begun soliciting public comments on the proposed Freedom of Information Act business standards developed to support federal shared services. DOJ is seeking input
MoreThe Office of Management and Budget has begun accepting public feedback on a proposed rule that would amend OMB’s regulations for implementing the Privacy Act and the Freedom of Information Act, or FOIA.
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The Department of Defense has released a final rule amending the Freedom of Information Act, or FOIA, regulation to add additional FOIA requester service centers and update organizational names. With the final
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Lindsay Steel, chief of Freedom of Information Act compliance staff at the Department of Justice’s office of information policy, said DOJ and the National Archives and Records Administration are working with the
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The Department of Justice (DOJ) has updated the Annual Report Data page on the Freedom of Information Act website and uploaded all fiscal year 2020 FOIA reports prepared by 119 agencies onto
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The Defense Logistics Agency Information Operations' equipment management solutions team rolled out a bot in Dec. 2020 to handle various lease and purchase requests. The bot processes requests from more than 53,000
MoreA council of Freedom of Information Act officers has called for the inclusion of records management and commercial off-the-shelf FOIA software in the General Services Administration’s schedules program to facilitate the procurement process
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Melanie Pustay, director of the Department of Justice’s office of information policy, said she believes artificial intelligence can help DOJ accelerate the processing of Freedom of Information Act requests, Federal News Network
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The Department of Justice and Office of Management and Budget issued a memorandum Tuesday calling on federal agencies to ensure their Freedom of Information Act request platforms are interoperable with the centralized
MoreThe intelligence community's inspector general has called on the Defense Intelligence Agency's leadership to formulate a plan to reduce its backlog of Freedom of Information Act requests. In September, the ICIG explained in
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