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Making the Grade: Access to Information Scorecard 2014

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This analysis evaluates the performance of the 15 federal agencies that received the greatest number of FOIA requests in fiscal year 2012. These agencies received over 90 percent of all information requests that year. We examined their performance in three key areas:
1.Processing requests for information (the rate of disclosure, the fullness of information provided, and timeliness of the response);
2.Establishing rules for information access (effectiveness of agency policy on withholding information and communicating with requesters); and
3.Creating user-friendly websites (facilitating the flow of information to citizens, online services, and up-to-date reading rooms)
 
 
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Making the Grade: Access to Information Scorecard 2014
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Making the Grade: Access to Information Scorecard 2014

This analysis evaluates the performance of the 15 federal agencies that received the greatest number of FOIA requests in fiscal year 2012. These Read More

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