In FY 2022, the government-wide FOIA backlog surpassed 200,000 requests for the first time. A Government Accountability Office report attributed the backlog to "larger volumes of requests and more ...

Government watchdog groups say they will challenge the Trump administration’s decision to put the initiative under the ...

After years of resistance from many politicians and almost all government agencies, FOIA was signed into law in 1966 ... Union’s General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) have advanced ...

Records are broadly defined by statute and regulation to include all ... State public records laws are not identical to FOIA, nor are state court interpretations of similar language in state ...

The original Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) of 1966—the law under which many of those redacted documents are obtained—was the "product of years of slow campaigning by a network of ...

The Michigan Senate crossed the first item off its 2025 to-do list on Wednesday, passing a plan to expand Michigan’s Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) with overwhelming bipartisan support. “This is ...

In its settlement, the board acknowledged it violated the FOIA law, but contended the infractions were not intended. The panel also promised to follow the rules in the future, and agreed to pay th ...