A FOIA request must be in written form, reasonably describe the records sought, reflect a willingness to pay fees and provide a physical address. No special request form is needed.

Jeff Somers is a freelancer who has been writing about writing, books, personal finance, and home maintenance since 2012. When not writing, Jeff spends his free time fixing up his old house. He has ...

When her daughter started kindergarten, Miriam Bhimani was eager to get more context about how decisions were being made at the Chicago elementary school. So she started writing requests to the ...

The White House Office of Management and Budget is asking agencies to get their National FOIA Portal interoperability plans in order. The FOIA Improvement Act of 2016 required that OMB and the ...

Objections are due by December 9. The Office of Federal Contract Compliance Programs announced that it has received additional requests for contractors’ EEO-1 Reports under the Freedom of Information ...