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Agency FOIA Improvement Plans Presented

06.19.06 | 1 min read | Text by Steven Aftergood

In a December 14, 2005 Executive Order, President Bush directed government agencies to review their Freedom of Information Act programs, evaluate their performance, and develop plans to reduce backlogs and improve efficiency.

Those plans were due on June 14 and some of them, not all, have now been published by the Department of Justice Office of Information and Privacy.