1,380 bodies · 74 statutes · 3,224 counties by inheritance
Who you can ask.
Every body in the register carries the statute it answers to, the deadline that statute sets, and the routes it takes requests on — federal, state, and now the international layer for records held outside the United States. Counties and cities are covered through their state's law — the counts are on the coverage page.
Federal — 298 offices
All federal →- Central Intelligence AgencyCIA
- Commodity Futures Trading Commission1
- Consumer Financial Protection BureauCFPB
- Consumer Product Safety CommissionCPSC
- Corporation for National and Community Service / AmeriCorpsAmeriCorps
- Council on Environmental QualityCEQ
- Department of Agriculture12
- Department of Commerce15
- Department of Defense45
- Department of Education5
- Department of Energy7
- Department of Health and Human Services18
- Department of Homeland Security17
- Department of Housing and Urban Development5
- Department of Justice26
- Department of Labor8
- Department of State9
- Department of the Interior14
- Department of the Treasury14
- Department of Transportation9
- Department of Veterans Affairs5
- Environmental Protection AgencyEPA
- Equal Employment Opportunity CommissionEEOC
- Federal Communications CommissionFCC
- Federal Election CommissionFEC
- Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (additional listing)FERC
- Federal Labor Relations Authority1
- Federal Maritime CommissionFMC
- Federal Reserve System / Board of GovernorsFED
- Federal Trade CommissionFTC
- General Services AdministrationGSA
- Government Accountability OfficeGAO
- Institute of Museum and Library Services1
- Library of CongressLOC
- National Aeronautics and Space AdministrationNASA
- National Archives and Records AdministrationNARA
- National Credit Union Administration1
- National Endowment for the ArtsNEA
- National Endowment for the HumanitiesNEH
- National Labor Relations BoardNLRB
- National Science FoundationNSF
- Nuclear Regulatory CommissionNRC
- Occupational Safety and Health Review CommissionOSHRC
- Office of Management and BudgetOMB
- Office of National Drug Control Policy1
- Office of Personnel ManagementOPM
- Office of Science and Technology PolicyOSTP
- Office of the Director of National Intelligence2
- Peace CorpsPC
- Postal Regulatory CommissionPRC
- Railroad Retirement BoardRRB
- Securities and Exchange CommissionSEC
- Securities Investor Protection Corporation1
- Selective Service SystemSSS
- Small Business AdministrationSBA
- Smithsonian InstitutionSI
- Social Security AdministrationSSA
- U.S. Agency for International DevelopmentUSAID
- U.S. Postal Inspection ServiceUSPIS
- U.S. Postal ServiceUSPS
- U.S. Trade RepresentativeUSTR
- United States Holocaust Memorial MuseumUSHMM
Struck through: bodies the Freedom of Information Act does not reach — the GAO, the Library of Congress and the Smithsonian are legislative or trust entities with their own access rules.
States and territories — 1064 offices
Their statutes →- Alabama—
- Alaska10
- American Samoa
- Arizona—
- Arkansas3
- California10
- Colorado3
- Connecticut4
- Delaware15
- District of Columbia
- Florida—
- Georgia3
- Guam
- Hawaii10
- Idaho3
- Illinois5
- Indiana7
- Iowa—
- Kansas3
- Kentucky5
- Louisiana3
- Maine5
- Maryland10
- Massachusetts10
- Michigan5
- Minnesota—
- Mississippi7
- Missouri3
- Montana—
- Nebraska4
- Nevada5
- New Hampshire5
- New Jersey7
- New Mexico3
- New York5
- North Carolina—
- North Dakota—
- Northern Mariana Islands
- Ohio—
- Oklahoma—
- Oregon5
- Pennsylvania5
- Puerto Rico10
- Rhode Island10
- South Carolina10
- South Dakota10
- Tennessee7
- Texas10
- U.S. Virgin Islands10
- Utah10
- Vermont3
- Virginia5
- Washington5
- West Virginia5
- Wisconsin—
- Wyoming—
The number is the statutory deadline in days. A dash means the statute sets none and requires production within a reasonable time.
International — 18 bodies
All international →The defence, aviation and archive bodies outside the United States most relevant to UAP records, each under its own country’s access law. Several — GEIPAN, Italy’s Aeronautica Militare, Chile and Uruguay’s standing commissions — publish their case files proactively, which is often faster than any request.
- Department of Defence (Australia)Australia30
- Brazilian Air Force / National ArchivesBrazil20
- Department of National DefenceCanada30
- Library and Archives CanadaCanada30
- CEFAA — Committee for the Study of Anomalous Aerial PhenomenaChile20
- Danish DefenceDenmark7
- GEIPAN — Unidentified Aerospace Phenomena Study and Information Group (CNES)France30
- Federal Ministry of DefenceGermany30
- Department of Defence (Ireland)Ireland20
- Italian Air ForceItaly30
- Ministry of Defense (Japan)Japan30
- Secretariat of National DefenseMexico20
- New Zealand Defence ForceNew Zealand20
- Ministry of Defence (Spain)Spain30
- Swedish Armed ForcesSweden—
- Ministry of DefenceUnited Kingdom20
- The National ArchivesUnited Kingdom20
- CRIDOVNI — UFO Report Reception and Investigation CommissionUruguay20
A hand-compiled layer, not an import: routes marked unconfirmed have not been proven by a delivered letter, and Aletheca cannot yet originate a request outside the United States — the records here are for reading and routing.
Where Aletheca has actually filed
A scorecard is a measurement of our own correspondence, so it exists only for bodies we have filed with. Every figure is computed from requests whose full text is public and therefore auditable — none of it comes from an agency’s self-reported Annual FOIA Report, and the two are never merged.
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