Reviewing FOIA policies and procedures for all administrative agencies subject to FOIA is a big job, and a key component of OGIS’s ongoing work to improve FOIA compliance across the government. To improve our understanding of FOIA compliance issues across the government, OGIS worked with the CRO to develop 11 questions about FOIA operations to include in the RMSA survey. The responses to the questions in the 2016 RMSA survey helped create a baseline for our understanding of the relationship between FOIA Officers and Federal Agency Records Officers and for the systems agencies do – or do not – have in place to identify information that could be proactively released. The questions and survey responses to the 2016 RMSA survey have also furthered our perspectives on observations in our agency compliance reports regarding program management, the use of technology, and communication with requesters. Please download the report to learn more about our observations and analysis of survey results.
We look forward to continuing this successful collaboration with the CRO in the future, and deeply appreciate the CRO’s willingness to work with us on this project. You can learn more about the RMSA and the CRO by visiting the National Archives’ Records Management Oversight and Reporting Program webpage and Records Express, the CRO’s blog.