Members of the FOIA Advisory Committee’s Statutory Reform Subcommittee seek public input on three draft recommendations presented to the full Committee at the March 5, 2026 meeting. The draft recommendations are:
- Proposed Recommendation SR-1: Congress should amend FOIA to establish the FOIA Advisory Committee as a statutory federal advisory committee.
- Proposed Recommendation SR-2: Congress should require executive branch departments and agencies to implement a funding model that requires them to allocate a portion of their operating budget to fund FOIA operations proportional to the size of the workforce served by the agency’s FOIA office.
- Proposed Recommendation SR-3: Congress should amend FOIA to mandate regular publication of agency FOIA logs to contain 13 fields generally maintained in agency FOIA tracking systems. (A reporting chart regarding FOIA logs can be found here.)
If you have thoughts about these recommendations, please submit written comments at any time by using OGIS’s Public Comments Form. Submissions that comply with OGIS’s Public Comment Policy will be posted on the OGIS website. Statutory Reform Subcommittee members will review all comments received for discussion and further action at the next FOIA Advisory Committee meeting on April 2, 2026.
If you wish to watch the March 5, 2026, Committee meeting, you may do so on the National Archives YouTube channel.
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