Department of Commerce
U.S. Department of Commerce — cabinet department.
No scorecard yet
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
- 01portalAgency FOIA Portalverified
https://pal.foia.gov
- 02emailEmailunconfirmed
docfoia@doc.gov
- 03mailPostal mailunconfirmed
Department of Commerce FOIA Office, FOIA Requester Service Center, Washington DC 20208
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
- budget
- policy
- contracts
- grants
- correspondence
- reports
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
Components — 15
- Bureau of Economic AnalysisBEA
- Bureau of Economic Analysis - FOIABEA-FOIA
- Bureau of Industry and SecurityBIS
- Census BureauCensus
- Economic Development AdministrationEDA
- International Trade AdministrationITA
- Minority Business Development AgencyMBDA
- National Institute of Standards and TechnologyNIST
- National Marine Fisheries ServiceNMFS
- National Ocean ServiceNOS
- National Oceanic and Atmospheric AdministrationNOAA
- National Telecommunications and Information AdministrationNTIA
- National Weather ServiceNWS
- Office of Inspector GeneralOIG
- U.S. Patent and Trademark OfficeUSPTO
Components process their own requests. Filing with the department when the records sit in a component is the commonest cause of a referral, and a referral costs months.