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Just seven of 21 federal agencies that received identical Freedom of Information Act requests in January have provided full responses in the months since, despite a legal requirement to respond to such requests within several weeks of receiving them.
The Department of Homeland Security's headquarters division answered the FOIA request — which sought copies of the files federal FOIA offices themselves use to track requests — in nine days, the fastest of any agency.
The Transactional Records Access Clearinghouse at Syracuse University, which oversees the FOIA Project, fired off a series of requests Jan. 22 and 23 to test the response time and quality of a number of agencies.
Nine agencies — including Customs and Border Protection, the Federal Bureau of Investigation and several Department of Justice offices — failed to even acknowledge receiving the requests or said nothing else after getting the initial letter from the clearinghouse.
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