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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.

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

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USCIS has entered the next phase of its IT modernization journey

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

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

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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…

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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…

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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)

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

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. 

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