FOIA Project data release

[Mary Treacy]

http://foiaproject.org/2015/02/04/introducing-interactive-agency-pages/

A new FOIA Project feature allows users to generate a dashboard of FOIA metrics for every federal agency that has been sued under the Freedom of Information Act since 2001.

Free, open to the public, and available at http://foiaproject.org/lawsuits-show-agency, users can search for any of these 640 agencies. Depending on whether the agency has been sued under FOIA and how frequently, the page will load varying amounts of information, including:

• A brief description of the searched-for agency’s mission;
• An interactive map that displays where in the U.S. each FOIA lawsuit against the agency has been filed;
• An interactive chart that shows the number of FOIA lawsuits filed against the agency in each fiscal year since 2001;
• A “by the numbers” snapshot of the lawsuits against the agency, the time to resolve them, and the number still pending;
• Quick links to FOIA Project’s case and appeals search tools, which gives users access to more than 22,127 court documents from more than 7,639 federal district and circuit FOIA court cases;
• A submission form that allows users to inform us of cases of improper withholding so that we can feature them on FOIAproject.org.

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The FOIA Project is a nonpartisan, nonprofit effort to document and expose instances of improper withholding under FOIA. The Project seeks to create a climate that leads to full compliance with FOIA and ends the improper withholding of public records.

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