Friday, 10th August 2007

Still Waiting After All These Years; a New Look at FOIA Delays

Still Waiting After All These Years; a New Look at FOIA Delays (PDF; 1.79 MB)
Source: The Coalition of Journalists for Open Government

Still Waiting After All These Years, a new analysis of Freedom of Information Act performance by the Coalition of Journalists for Open Government, shows that service continues to frustrate requesters, despite a presidential directive ordering agencies to improve agency response. Over the past nine years that agencies have been reporting performance data, the number of FOIA requests processed has fallen 20%, the number of FOIA personnel is down 10%, the backlog has tripled, and the cost of handling a request is up 79%.

+ A Further Look at the Performance Records (PDF; 3.18 MB)
+ Performance by Year, Category

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• Government and politics (DocuTicker)

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