Justice Department

FOIA backlogs on the rise after record number of requests

Numerous agencies, including DHS, DoD and State, saw their backlogs jump after the public made a record number of FOIA requests last year.

Agency Oversight

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After 10 years, limited maturity of agencies’ Section 508 programs ‘largely unchanged’

Agency Oversight

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USCIS has entered the next phase of its IT modernization journey

Ask the CIO

USPS employees can’t be sued by states for delivering abortion medications, DOJ finds

Agency Oversight

FILE - An American flag flies outside the Department of Justice in Washington, March 22, 2019. The Justice Department says three Iranian citizens have been charged in the United States with cyberattacks that targeted power companies, local governments and small businesses and nonprofits, including a domestic violence shelter. (AP Photo/Andrew Harnik, File)

The Justice department lags in a strategy required by law

Agency Oversight

Congress drives CIO authorities deeper down at USDA, Justice, State

Reporter's Notebook

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GSA giving two agencies two extra years to transition to new telecommunications contract

Contracts/Awards

As DOJ, GSA publicly report on Section 508 progress, US Access Board driving change

Management

Agencies need to do more to break down language barriers, DOJ says

Management

An update on doings of a crucial federal agency almost no one ever heard of

Agency Oversight

Whistleblower: 665 FBI employees under misconduct investigations left prior to ruling

Agency Oversight

White House AI ‘Bill of Rights’ sets higher bar for agencies to weed out bias

The Biden administration is setting a higher bar for how federal agencies oversee artificial intelligence and automation tools, and how they implement…

Artificial Intelligence

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Follow the digital money: 4 federal use cases for blockchain analytics

Cryptocurrencies and other blockchain-based digital assets play an increasingly central role in financial markets. They’re also becoming a more frequent…

Commentary

FILE - A sign for the Department of Justice Federal Bureau of Prisons is displayed at the Metropolitan Detention Center in the Brooklyn borough of New York, July 6, 2020. A bipartisan group of U.S. senators introduced legislation Wednesday, Sept. 28, 2022, to overhaul oversight and bring greater transparency to the crisis-plagued federal Bureau of Prisons following reporting from The Associated Press that exposed systemic corruption in the federal prison system and increased congressional scrutiny. (AP Photo/Mark Lennihan, File)

Bureau of Prisons understaffing leads to ‘unprecedented exodus’ of employees, union warns

Hiring/Retention

The Justice Department’s Bureau of Prisons, after a shakeup in its leadership following allegations of mismanagement, faces a critical shortage of correctional officers that’s putting a toll on both the workforce and the inmates they oversee.