Senate Acts, Bureaucrats Stall on FOIA Requests | August 20, 2007 3:52 PM | Mike Mitchell and JR Santo Report:
Just days after the Senate unanimously passed the OPEN Government Act, a new report asserts that information grants from federal agencies to Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) solicitations remain infrequent and limited.
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According to the analysis, of all FOIA requests processed by the government in 2006, only 64 percent received information grants, and less than two-thirds of these recipients received full grants, or grants that hand over all requested information. The lowest response rate ever recorded for a given year is 63 percent, set in 2005.
The report also states that backlog -- requests not processed at all during a given year -- hit a record high of 39 percent in 2006, even though the number of incoming requests hit a record low.
Although the government has allocated more taxpayer dollars to FOIA-related expenses over the years, efficiency in response service has declined.
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