The Freedom of Information Act (FOIA), a landmark law to increase government accountability, is falling short in its aim to improve transparency with American citizens, according to a recent report ...

The number of FOIA requests filed in fiscal year 2024 surpassed 1.5 million, which represented a 25% increase from FY 2023. Congress Artificial Intelligence The adoption of modernized information ...

When her daughter started kindergarten, Miriam Bhimani was eager to get more context about how decisions were being made at the Chicago elementary school. So she started writing requests to the ...

FOIA offices are struggling with the complexity of today's data environments as federal agencies are collecting more data in more formats than ever before. As agencies process and store increasing ...

Visit the newly minted FOIA.gov website, and you’ll see various statistics on FOIA requests and processing times. For 2023, the average processing time for simple requests for all agencies ranged from ...

A new Interior Department rule could make it harder for news organizations and nonprofits to get public information from the government. Filed to the Federal Register between Christmas and New Year’s ...

This March 19, 1975, file photo shows the Hughes Glomar Explorer, a 618-foot-long salvage ship built by the eccentric industrialist Howard Hughes, at the Long Beach harbor dock in Los Angeles, Calif.

The Reporters Committee provides a variety of resources on public records and open meetings laws, also known as sunshine laws, right to know laws, or freedom of information acts. These laws provide a ...

The National Institutes of Health is still blaming processing delays for public records requests on the COVID-19 shutdown from five years ago, with response times to simple inquiries reportedly ...

Rep. Adam Schiff (D-Calif.) unveiled legislation Tuesday that would extend the powers of the Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) to the judicial branch. The legislation from Schiff, who is running for ...

And that’s where FOIA came in. We’ll break down all three risk categories below, to illustrate how financial players like hedge funds use FOIA requests to mitigate potential risk. Five of the requests ...

Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) arrested hundreds of Iranian nationals during the U.S.’s June 2025 war on Iran, ...