Announcing Upcoming FY25 FOIA Reporting Deadlines (Updated)

With the new fiscal year underway, OIP’s Compliance Team is quickly preparing to jump into the FY25 reporting season.  Back on September 30, OIP announced the anticipated deadlines for agency report submissions for Fiscal Year 2025. Today, we are updating those deadlines for the 2025 Annual FOIA Reports and 2026 Chief FOIA Officer Reports.

Agencies are required to submit their Fiscal Year 2025 Annual FOIA Reports using the FOIA.gov Annual Report Tool.  OIP has also updated the Department of Justice Annual FOIA Report Handbook, a key resource that agencies should consult when compiling their Annual FOIA Reports.  Agency personnel responsible for completing their agency's report are encouraged to attend OIP's Annual FOIA Report Refresher Training on Thursday, November 20, 2025 [NEW DATE]. You can register for the event at the following link: https://www.justice.gov/oip/event/dojs-annual-report-training-federal-agencies. If you have attended this training in previous years and feel confident to begin your submissions without attending this year’s session, we encourage you to begin the reporting process as soon as possible.

Agencies should take note of the following deadlines, which are also summarized in Agency Reporting Obligations At-A-Glance, to ensure that they can satisfy all FOIA reporting obligations in the upcoming year:

FISCAL YEAR 2025 ANNUAL FOIA REPORT

December 12, 2025 [NEW DATE]– Agencies are required to submit their Fiscal Year 2025 Annual FOIA Report to OIP for review and clearance through FOIA.gov.

No later than March 1, 2026 – Agencies are required to post the final human readable and NIEM-XML versions of their Fiscal Year 2025 Annual FOIA Report on their websites.

FISCAL YEAR 2026 QUARTERLY FOIA REPORTS

January 30, 2026 – Quarter 1 data is required to be posted.
April 24, 2026 – Quarter 2 data is required to be posted.
July 31, 2026 – Quarter 3 data is required to be posted.
October 30, 2026 – Quarter 4 data is required to be posted.

For guidance on the requirements for completing the Quarterly Reports, please see OIP’s guidance on quarterly reporting (updated October 2021).

2026 CHIEF FOIA OFFICER REPORTS

January 30, 2026 [NEW DATE] – Deadline for agencies receiving 100 or more requests in Fiscal Year 2024 to submit their 2026 Chief FOIA Officer Reports to OIP for review and clearance.

February 6, 2026 – Deadline for agencies receiving fewer than 100 requests in Fiscal Year 2024 that choose to report to submit their Chief FOIA Officer Reports to OIP.

March 16, 2026 – Agencies are required to post their 2026 Chief FOIA Officer Reports online.

If you have any questions regarding any of the deadlines noted above or the requirements for any of the reports, please contact OIP’s FOIA Compliance Team at (202) 514-3642 (FOIA).  We are aware that this is a very short timeline, but there are statutory deadlines that we are doing our best to still meet this cycle while being a month behind. We will do our best to help in every way possible and be available to you as we dive into this reporting season. You can also find all of these reporting deadlines on the Reports page of OIP’s website.