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During Sunshine Week, GAO finds agencies need better plans to address surging FOIA backlogs

FOIA backlogs have been on the rise across government for the past decade, but many agencies lack detailed goals and milestones to reduce the backlogs.

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Congress, minibus, funding, budget

6-bill minibus rewards some agencies, while slashing budgets for others

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‘Who’s going to run the prison?’ Union says loss of pay bonuses at BOP facility will cause major attrition

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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)

New 25% retention bonuses at Bureau of Prisons only a ‘Band-Aid’ for larger staffing issues

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(Maria B. Barnes/NSF)National Science Foundation HQ with Metro passing by

National Science Foundation to make salary cuts after law shows some feds have been ‘overpaid’ since 2017

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(Getty Images/iStockphoto/Rawpixel Ltd)silhouettes of workers in an office

No, showing up (to the office) is not 80% of life

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Inspector General detects big polygraph failure at DEA

In today’s Federal Newscast: The Labor Department is struggling to retain drug intervention specialists in its Job Corps centers. The Justice Department…

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Voting Rights Act Voices

Join us Aug. 21: Commemorating the 60th anniversary of the March on Washington

Please join Federal News Network and the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission for a special event on Aug. 21, in celebration of the 60th anniversary…

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Misinformation Microsoft

Now both chambers of Congress are investigating Microsoft email breach

House lawmakers are now investigating a China-linked hack that reportedly involved the unclassified email accounts of Commerce Secretary Gina Raimondo and other high-level officials.

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