Consumer Financial Protection Bureau
Consumer finance.
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Aletheca has not filed with this body, so there is nothing to measure. A zero here would read as “releases nothing” rather than “never asked”, which is why the row is absent instead of empty. Be the first to file.
How it takes requests
- 01portalNational FOIA Portalverified
https://www.foia.gov/agency-search.html
- 02emailEmail — agency guidanceverified
FOIA@consumerfinance.gov
- 03mailPostal mail — agency guidanceverified
CFPB, Attn: Chief FOIA Officer, 445 12th Street SW, Washington, DC 20024
Routes marked unconfirmed are inferred from the agency’s domain pattern in the source dataset and have not been proven by a delivered letter. Aletheca confirms an endpoint before the first request goes to it and records the confirmation as a public event — a request sent to a plausible-looking address that bounces silently is worse than no request at all.
What it holds
- correspondence
- contracts
- reports
- emails
- memoranda
- data
- policies
Record classes this kind of body normally keeps. Useful for drafting a request a records officer can act on without guessing — a request describing records the agency does not hold is refused as no-records, which costs a filing fee and teaches nobody anything.
Filing tips
- Be specific on date range and custodians
- Cite public-interest fee waiver and news-media status if applicable
- Request Vaughn index for withholdings
- Ask for rolling release
- Include full contact information, detailed records scope, requester category, and fee willingness/ceiling or waiver justification. Ordinary FOIA uses FOIA.gov or email/mail; personal-record requests have a distinct registered Privacy Act portal and consent/access templates. Source: https://www.consumerfinance.gov/foia-requests/submit-request/