There are countless secrets hidden in government documents. As The Post's FOIA director, I help reporters figure out how to find them. Here's how I do it.

And it's getting worse as the number of FOIA requests filed every year grows. In FY 2022, the government-wide FOIA backlog surpassed 200,000 requests for the first time.

Visit the newly minted FOIA.gov website, and you’ll see various statistics on FOIA requests and processing times. For 2023, the average processing time for simple requests for all agencies ...

A National Institutes of Health (NIH) public liaison for Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) requests — who taught a senior adviser to Dr. Anthony Fauci how to "make emails disappear" — is ...

How FOIA Gave Rise to Government Transparency Laws Around the World Flawed as it may be, the U.S. Freedom of Information Act became a model in transparency for other countries to follow.

Welcome back to another edition of FOIA Files. Just a month into Trump’s second presidency, the FOIA has made its way into the swirling, political chaos. The administration’s mass firings of ...

The number of FOIA requests filed in fiscal year 2024 surpassed 1.5 million, which represented a 25% increase from FY 2023. Congress Artificial Intelligence ...

Anyone can submit a FOIA request to federal agencies in the United States, but what information fall sunder the request and how can you submit one successfully?