GAO Finds Other Statutes Increasingly Used for FOIA Exemptions
The number of times federal agencies cited other federal laws as exemptions from Freedom of Information Act requests more than doubled from FY 2012 to FY 2019, as processed FOIA requests increased about 32%, GAO reported Thursday. Most commonly cited…
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was a federal law making U.S. visa issuance records confidential, it said. 2010-19, 91 agencies used 256 different statutes as exemptions more than 525,000 times, it said. The report included the FCC and FTC. GAO said DOJ provided technical comments.