We’re happy to announce the release of our assessment of the FOIA program at the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) is now public. As our regular blog readers may know, the assessment of FEMA is one of six compliance reports that we are working on and will publish in the coming months. OGIS’s report includes … Continue reading OGIS Releases Compliance Review of FEMA FOIA Program
The use of “still interested” letters is a hot topic in the FOIA community, both with requesters and agencies. In October 2014, about a dozen organizations representing the interests of the requester community wrote to the Office of Government Information Services (OGIS) to request that we look into the use of these letters to administratively … Continue reading Play Under Review: Agency Use of “Still Interested” Letters
We’re pleased to release our second assessment of an agency FOIA program: the National Archives and Records Administration’s (NARA) Special Access and FOIA unit. Regular readers will recall that we launched our agency assessment program last year to help us better fulfill our statutory mandate to review agency FOIA policies, procedures and compliance. (5 U.S.C. … Continue reading OGIS Releases Second Agency Assessment
Fiscal Year (FY) 2015 is shaping up to be a busy one for OGIS, just as FY 2014 was. Want to learn more about OGIS’s FY 2014? Check out our annual report: Building a Bridge Between FOIA Requesters & Federal Agencies 2015 Report for FY 2014. We’ve got a nifty page-turn version on our website, … Continue reading Announcing OGIS’s FY 2014 Report!
If you keep an eye on OGIS, you know that we are celebrating some exciting changes and welcoming new staff. Beyond those changes, we are also saying goodbye to Miriam Nisbet, OGIS’s first Director, who retired at the end of November. Miriam herself has written about her career in fostering access to information, and we … Continue reading Change is in the Air
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