Office of Government Information Services (OGIS)

Appendix A (The Freedom of Information Act Ombudsman 2023 Report for Fiscal Year 2022)

FOIA requires OGIS to report “the number of times each agency engaged in dispute resolution with the assistance of [OGIS] or the FOIA Public Liaison,” 5 U.S.C. §552(h)(4)(A)(ii)(II). The chart below provides that information for Fiscal Year (FY) 2022.

The total number of OGIS cases does not equal the total number of cases OGIS handled in FY 2022 because some cases involved multiple agencies or requests. In other cases, mostly involving telephone calls, the name of the agency was not relevant to the issue and OGIS did not note the agency name.

Agency	No. of OGIS Cases in FY 2022	No. of times requesters sought assistance from the Agency FOIA Public Liaison in FY 2022 [12]
Department of Justice	745	30,897
Department of Homeland Security	687	32,123
Department of Defense	237	2,000
Department of Labor	175	630
Department of Veterans Affairs	162	> 500
Department of Health and Human Services	159	500
Social Security Administration	142	7,573
National Archives and Records Administration	116	130
Department of State	99	945
Department of the Interior	79	100
Department of the Treasury	70	1,276
Department of Transportation	58	325
Small Business Administration	57	1,500
Equal Employment Opportunity Commission	50	456
U.S. Postal Service	49	2,080
Central Intelligence Agency	41	0
Securities and Exchange Commission	22	10
Environmental Protection Agency	21	224
Department of Commerce	18	40
Department of Agriculture	17	35
Department of Education	17	5
Department of Housing and Urban Development	17	4
Pension Benefit Guaranty Corporation	12	7
General Services Administration	9	225
Department of Energy	8	23
Federal Trade Commission	7	150
Office of Personnel Management	7	25
Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation	6	35
Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System	5	10
National Transportation Safety Board	4	0
U.S. Copyright Office	3	n/a
Consumer Financial Protection Bureau	3	139
U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission	3	60
Amtrak	3	50
Commodity Futures Trading Commission	3	5
Tennessee Valley Authority	3	3
Federal Housing Finance Agency	2	n/a
National Mediation Board	2	n/a
National Labor Relations Board	2	50
Office of the Director of National Intelligence	2	50
Federal Communications Commission	2	45
U.S. Agency for International Development	2	2
Corporation for National and Community Service	1	n/a
National Endowment for the Arts	1	n/a
National Indian Gaming Commission	1	n/a
Office of Special Counsel	1	205
Executive Office of the President: Office of the U.S. Trade Representative	1	60
U.S. Election Assistance Commission	1	25
Peace Corps	1	3
National Credit Union Administration	1	2
Executive Office of the President: Office of Science and Technology Policy	1	1
Merit Systems Protection Board	0	<5
Export-Import Bank	0	12
Council of Inspectors General on Integrity and Efficiency	0	10
Executive Office of the President: Council on Environmental Quality	0	10
National Aeronautics and Space Administration	0	7
Court Services and Offender Supervision Agency	0	4
Office of Government Ethics	0	3
Executive Office of the President: Office of Management and Budget	0	2
Nuclear Regulatory Commission	0	2
Occupational Safety and Health Review Commission	0	2
U.S. Agency for Global Media	0	2
Federal Election Commission	0	1
Federal Labor Relations Authority	0	1
Chemical Safety and Hazard Investigation Board	0	0
Farm Credit Administration	0	0
National Endowment for the Humanities	0	0
National Science Foundation	0	0
Railroad Retirement Board	0	0
U.S. International Development Finance Corporation	0	0
Administrative Conference of the United States	0	n/a
Advisory Council on Historic Preservation	0	n/a
American Battle Monuments Commission	0	n/a
Appraisal Subcommittee	0	n/a
Armed Forces Retirement Home	0	n/a
Commission of Fine Arts	0	n/a
Committee for Purchase from People Who Are Blind or Severely Disabled	0	n/a
Defense Nuclear Facilities Safety Board	0	n/a
Denali Commission	0	n/a
Executive Office of the President: Office of National Drug Control Policy	0	n/a
Farm Credit System Insurance Corporation	0	n/a
Federal Energy Regulatory Commission	0	n/a
Federal Financial Institutions Examination Council	0	n/a
Federal Maritime Commission	0	n/a
Federal Mediation and Conciliation Service	0	n/a
Federal Mine Safety and Health Review Commission	0	n/a
Federal Open Market Committee	0	n/a
Federal Retirement Thrift Investment Board	0	n/a
Gulf Coast Ecosystem Restoration Council	0	n/a
Harry S. Truman Scholarship Foundation	0	n/a
Institute of Museum and Library Services	0	n/a
Inter-American Foundation	0	n/a
James Madison Memorial Fellowship Foundation	0	n/a
Legal Services Corporation	0	n/a
Marine Mammal Commission	0	n/a
Millennium Challenge Corporation	0	n/a
Morris K. Udall Foundation	0	n/a
National Capital Planning Commission	0	n/a
National Commission on Military, National, and Public Service	0	n/a
National Council on Disability	0	n/a
Neighborhood Reinvestment Corporation	0	n/a
Nuclear Waste Technical Review Board	0	n/a
Office of Navajo and Hopi Indian Relocation	0	n/a
Postal Regulatory Commission	0	n/a
Presidio Trust	0	n/a
Privacy and Civil Liberties Oversight Board	0	n/a
Selective Service System	0	n/a
Social Security Advisory Board	0	n/a
Special Inspector General for Afghanistan Reconstruction	0	n/a
Surface Transportation Board	0	n/a
U.S. AbilityOne Commission	0	n/a
U.S. Access Board	0	n/a
U.S. African Development Foundation	0	n/a
U.S. Commission for the Preservation of America's National Heritage Abroad	0	n/a
U.S. Commission on Civil Rights	0	n/a
U.S. Institute of Peace	0	n/a
U.S. Interagency Council on Homelessness	0	n/a
U.S. International Boundary and Water Commission	0	n/a
U.S. International Trade Commission	0	n/a
U.S. Trade and Development Agency	0	n/a

[12] - From 2023 Chief FOIA Officer Reports. N/A means that the agency processed 50 or fewer requests in FY 2021 and thus was not required to report on requesters seeking assistance from the FOIA Public Liaison. (See “Guidelines for 2023 Chief FOIA Officer Reports”).

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