Summary of Fiscal Year 2024 Annual FOIA Reports Published

The Office of Information Policy (OIP) has released its Summary of Annual FOIA Reports for Fiscal Year (FY) 2024. This summary provides an overview of FOIA activities across the government during the previous fiscal year, looks at key statistics in FOIA administration, and identifies trends in FOIA processing.  Each summary serves as a resource for both agencies and the public to gain an understanding of overall FOIA administration.

As highlighted in this year's summary, the government received yet another record-setting 1,501,432 requests during FY 2024 – a 25.15% increase in requests received over last fiscal year.  Agencies largely kept pace with this demand by processing1,499,265 requests.  Agencies received 20,115 administrative appeals and processed 18,575 appeals, with more than two-thirds of federal agencies ending FY 2024 with no pending appeals.  In addition to responding to requests and administrative appeals, agencies continued to make vast amounts of information available proactively.  Agencies’ FOIA offices and program offices continued to proactively disclose millions of records, with FOIA Offices in particular posting significantly more records in FY 2024 as compared to FY 2023.

OIP's latest summary is available on its Reports page, where it can be compared with previous summaries dating back to FY 2006.  All agencies subject to the FOIA finalized their FY 2024 Annual FOIA Report data.  This information can be easily viewed, compared, and analyzed on FOIA.gov's Data page. 

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