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DOJ grades agency FOIA performance
An assessment by the Justice Department's office of information policy on cabinet department self-reported enactment of Obama administration Freedom of Information Act policy during the last fiscal year shows that all agencies say they've modified their guidance to apply the presumption of openness--but that about half have made little or no progress in reducing request backlog.
For the assessment, OIP assigned departments a score of one to five and converted the number scores into a traffic light grade. The department with the most scores below green is Labor, which among other things, didn't make an increase in full or partial disclosures, nor improved or upgraded its information technology systems.
The agency with the most green scores is Interior, which scored green across all possible categories in the OIP assessment. 





For more:
- go to an OIP post about the scorecard
- download the scorecard (.pdf)
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