FOIA Reports

Annual Reports

In accordance with the Electronic FOIA Amendments of 1996, each federal agency is required to submit annual reports regarding FOIA activities and make these reports electronically available. These reports contain basic information such as how and where to make FOIA requests, program costs, and processing statistics.

Quarterly Reports

On December 4, 2012, the Office of Information Policy at the Department of Justice notified agencies and the public that beginning January 2013 all agencies will be required to provide quarterly reporting of four key FOIA statistics to the Department of Justice that will be posted on FOIA.gov. The four key statistics are:

• The number of requests received during the reporting period
• The number of requests processed during the reporting period
• The number of requests in an agency’s backlog at the end of the reporting period
• The progress being made to close the agency’s ten overall oldest pending FOIA requests from the previous Fiscal Year