FOIA

FILE - Traders work on the floor at the New York Stock Exchange in New York, Aug. 10, 2022. Stocks teetered between small gains and losses in morning trading on Wall Street Thursday, Sept. 15, 2022 which left major indexes well in the red for the week. (AP Photo/Seth Wenig, File)

Are senior federal employees violating ethics rules en masse?

Thousands of career and political federal employees own stock in companies their agencies regulate.

Agency Oversight

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Do arbitrators go easy on federal employees who challenge being fired?

Unions

A FOIA request goes after years of confidential contractor information

Contracting

Air Force will no longer shoot down Facebook foes

Federal Newscast

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Does the government need a FOIA enforcer?

Agency Oversight

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The FOIA backlog continued to grow last year

Agency Oversight

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Five ways to improve FOIA estimated completion dates

Open Data/Transparency

How contractors use FOIA to spy on one another

Contracting

Dr. Rogers Cain, right, a primary care doctor, confers with office manager Cassandra Robinson, at his practice, Wednesday, Aug. 11, 2021, in Jacksonville, Fla. Cain said it was easier to convince his elderly patients to get the vaccine but his patients under the age of 50 remain skeptical. (AP Photo/John Raoux)

Federal workers injured on the job may soon have more treatment options

Federal Newscast

FILE - In this Nov. 20, 2020, file photo a U.S. Department of Homeland Security plaque is displayed a podium as international passengers arrive at Miami international Airport where they are screened by U.S. Customs and Border Protection in Miami. The damned-if-you-pay-damned-if-you-don’t dilemma on ransomware payments has left U.S. officials fumbling about how to respond. While the Biden administration “strongly discourages” paying, it recognizes that failing to pay would be suicidal for some victims. (AP Photo/Lynne Sladky, File)

FOIA advisers recommend independent review into how DHS handles immigration record requests

Agency Oversight

Study looking at how agencies make their crucial legal documents publicly available

Open Data/Transparency

Two agency inspectors general got salaries that busted legal limits on political employee pay

The inspectors general for two intelligence agencies were each overpaid by tens of thousands of dollars between 2016 and 2020.

Intelligence Community

FILE - Attorney General Merrick Garland listens during a meeting of the COVID-19 Fraud Enforcement Task Force at the Justice Department, March 10, 2022 in Washington. Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen and Garland on Wednesday, March 16, for the first time convened a multilateral task force known as REPO, short for Russian Elites, Proxies and Oligarchs, one of several new efforts dedicated to enforcing sanctions against Russian oligarchs over the war in Ukraine. (Kevin Lamarque/Pool via AP, File)

Garland issues new FOIA guidance as lawmakers seek GAO study of agency challenges

The new guidance emphasizes a “presumption of openness,” but agencies continue to struggle to process FOIA requests and make a dent in the backlog.

Agency Oversight

DHS privacy chief aims to promote ‘privacy enhancing technologies’

Agency Oversight

DHS’s privacy chief wants to make privacy less of an afterthought by designing systems with technologies to protect the confidentiality and integrity of information in the first place.