A digital FOIA process is coming to USCIS. (ad.mak / Flickr) The U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services announced Wednesday that it has launched a new system that will allow the agency to process ...

A new digital system for managing Freedom of Information Act requests to the Commerce Department and a handful of other federal agencies deserves an A+ for making it easier to file FOIAs, Amy Bennett, ...

Richmond Mayor Danny Avula recently announced plans to introduce an ordinance for consideration that, if approved, would ...

Under the Senate-passed FOIA Improvement Act of 2015, OMB would take the lead in creating a one-stop online portal for FOIA requests across the federal government. Citizen Services Justice OMB The ...

TOLEDO, Ohio — The Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) allows anyone to obtain records of federal agencies, even if they are not U.S. citizens. The requests to access these documents are commonly known ...

Taking advantage of technology and preemptively posting frequently requested information online could help agencies address new Freedom of Information Act queries and tackle backlogs, FOIA officials ...

A view of the IRS building in Washington, D.C. (Chip Somodevilla / Getty Images) A few years ago, the Internal Revenue Service announced that it had begun using the identity credential service ID.me ...

WASHINGTON — The law that’s supposed to keep citizens in the know about what their government is doing is about to get more robust. Seven agencies — including the Environmental Protection Agency and ...

Excessive government secrecy takes many forms, including denying or ignoring FOIA requests and deleting data from websites. These tactics prevent the public from meaningfully participating in ...