About the Project

FOIAproject.org provides a home for comprehensive information on all federal FOIA decisions, whether on initial FOIA requests, administrative appeals, or FOIA lawsuits. You can support this community effort by contributing FOIA correspondence and FOIA court documents in cases you have been involved in.
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The goal of FOIAproject.org is to provide the public with timely and complete information about every instance in which the federal government grants or withholds records under the Freedom of Information Act (FOIA). Updated daily, this “FOIA accountability engine” now includes detailed information on every case that challenges government withholding in federal court. And we have started expanding coverage to decisions on FOIA administrative requests on an agency-by-agency basis.
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The Freedom of Information Act was signed into law by President Lyndon Johnson in 1966 to improve public access to government records. While the law established an important principle, there is wide agreement the FOIA’s administrative process has many flaws, with federal agencies frequently resisting its mandates by either refusing to provide properly requested records or ignoring the requirements that the documents be made available within specified time periods.
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The Transactional Records Access Clearinghouse (TRAC) is a research center at Syracuse University. TRAC was established in 1989 in order to obtain detailed information from various federal agencies under the FOIA, check its accuracy and completeness and make the data available to the public through its two web sites, TRAC and TRACFed.
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