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 ...

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.

Fewer FOIA professionals are processing more complex requests, the report noted, even as the federal backlog of open petitions already exceeds 200,000. And these already overburdened offices are ...

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.

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.