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Aletheca

1,343 bodies · 57 statutes · 3,168 counties by inheritance

Who you can ask.

Every federal and state body in the register carries the statute it answers to, the deadline that statute sets, and the routes it takes requests on. Counties and cities are covered through their state's law — the counts are on the coverage page.

Coverage and confidenceThe 57 statutes/api/v1/agencies →

Federal — 298 offices

All federal →

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 — 1045 offices

Their statutes →

The number is the statutory deadline in days. A dash means the statute sets none and requires production within a reasonable time.

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.

AgencyFiledMedianStatuteLateReleasedRedactedGlomarWaivers
DIA21388d20bd90%29%88%19%52%
AARO34214d20bd88%41%78%12%71%
FBI47302d20bd79%55%84%9%38%
USAF26176d20bd72%48%66%4%46%
NRO1896d20bd61%22%91%39%44%
FAA3844d20bd41%79%22%0%61%
NARA2961d20bd34%86%31%0%93%
LCC-NV712d5bd29%71%8%0%14%

Embargoed requests, by agency

Counted here and in every scorecard above, even though their subjects are withheld. Privacy conceals the subject, never the fact.

  • USAF · 1