Federal agencies follow no standard in response to Freedom of Information Act requests

A study conducted by The Hill of government responses to the Freedom of Information Act requests revealed no uniform pattern of response. The Hill filed FOIA request for over 70 federal agency FOIA logs and experienced wide variations in compliance.

Some agencies sent logs with names but no affiliations. A few agencies complied in days, most in months. The Hill listed the best and worst agencies for FOIA response. -db

From an analysis and commentary in The Hill, June 3, 2011, by Cristina Marcos.

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