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Annual Report Data for 95 Agencies Now on FOIA.gov
OIP has received Fiscal Year 2011 Annual FOIA Report submissions from all 99 federal departments and agencies subject to the FOIA. Of these 99 reports, the data is now available on FOIA.gov, the Department’s dedicated governmentwide FOIA website, for 95 departments and agencies, including data from the Departments of Justice, Defense, and Homeland Security, and agencies such as the Central Intelligence Agency and the National Aeronautics and Space Administration.
From the data already available on FOIA.gov, we can already see some significant changes in data between FY 2010 and FY 2011. Even though we are still waiting to post the data from four agencies, including the Departments of Housing and Urban Development, and the Treasury, we already know that across the government:
- The number of requests received increased to 624,352 from 597,415
- The number of requests processed, which increased to 611,691, from 600,849
- For those requests where records were located and processed, the number of requests where records were released in full or in part increased to 397,661 from 377,481
- The number of backlogged requests increased to 82,986 from 69,526. This is due to the dramatic increase in the number of requests received by the Department of Homeland Security in FY 2011, up 35% from 130,098 in FY 2010 to 175,656 in FY 2011, which in turn contributed to a higher request backlog at that Department.
Updated August 6, 2014
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