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Several federal agencies are struggling to keep up with a growing number of freedom of information requests, especially as fewer documents and officials' schedules are taken offline.
In today's Federal Newscast, 24 agencies plan to consolidate their office space in the coming years according to the Government Accountability Office.
The Justice Department's Office of Information Policy launched the first iteration of its National FOIA Portal on Thursday through a redesign of its existing FOIA.gov website.
According to new documents from the Interior Department, 33 senior executives received reassignment notifications back in June. Of the 33, 10 received requests for a geographic reassignment.
An Interior senior executive is suing his former employer for documents related to the reassignments of 30-to-50 SES members.
Twenty-two open government organizations are looking to help expand public access to information, and at the same time lessen the paperwork burden on agencies.
In today's Federal Newscast, a Government Accountability Office report says the Navy's shipyards are in such bad shape they can no longer meet the service's operational needs.
The White House ordered agencies to reduce and reform regulations with a goal of getting rid of two for every new one they write.
The federal government is headed toward an electronic records classification overload.
The Defense Department is giving Congress its suggestions for the 2018 defense authorization bill. The proposal gives service members a 2.1 percent pay raise.
Open government and press organizations are fighting back against the new communications policy the chairman of the House Financial Services Committee recently set between his committee and the Treasury Department. The new policy says any communication between the committee and the department will be considered a "congressional record" and therefore isn't subject to the Freedom of Information Act.
The National FOIA Portal will offer a one-stop-shop for people requesting information from any of the federal agencies, and will also serve as a guide for pointing requesters toward information that is already public — thus eliminating extra work for FOIA offices.
In today's Top Federal Headlines, emails revealed through a FOIA request from Judicial Watch show contractors working with HHS had major security concerns days before the site became live.
Federal Freedom of Information Act offices saw a record number of information requests in fiscal 2016, an accomplishment that highlights the need to be able to efficiently and effectively serve stakeholder and citizens.