V. INITIAL FOIA/PA ACCESS REQUESTS.

A. NUMBERS OF INITIAL REQUESTS.
  NUMBER OF REQUESTS
PENDING AS OF
END OF PRECEDING YEAR		 NUMBER OF REQUESTS
RECEIVED IN
CURRENT YEAR		 NUMBER OF REQUESTS
PROCESSED IN
CURRENT YEAR		 NUMBER OF REQUESTS
PENDING AS OF
END OF CURRENT YEAR
OFFICE OF THE AG 187 231 251 167
OFFICE OF THE DAG 97 120 120 97
OFFICE OF THE ASSOC. AG 27 43 42 28
 
ANTITRUST 57* 151 145 63
BOP 766 13,971 13,743 994
ATF 187 1,650 1,719 118
CIVIL 15 465 467 13
CIVIL RIGHTS 171 602 665 108
CRS 0 2 2 0
CRIMINAL 768 1,393 1,292 869
DEA 124 1,642 1,569 197
ENRD 43 133 145 31
EOIR 1,441 10,160 9,870 1,731
EOUSA 1,694 3,847 3,835 1,706
EOUST 2 71 65 8
FBI 2,007 10,934 11,155 1,786
FCSC 0 9 9 0
JMD 17 2,349 2,165 201
NDIC 5 59 61 3
COPS 4 61 61 4
ODR 0 4 4 0
OFDT 0 13 12 1
OIP 40 446 445 41
OIG 5 206 208 3
OIPR 19 43 52 10
OIPL 3 11 7 7
OJP 8 370 314 64
OLC 7 80 85 2
OLP 34 86 81 39
OLA 55 52 74 33
Pardon Attorney 10** 34 43 1
OPR 21 89 95 15
Public Affairs 32 29 25 36
OSG 13 91 86 18
OVW 1*** 16 14 3
PRAO 0 14 14 0
TAX 0 263 263 0
USMS 190 998 1,016 172
USNCB 0 206 205 1
USPC 12 1,066 1,011 67
 
TOTALS 8,062 52,010 51,435 8,637

* When contributing to the Annual FOIA Report for Fiscal Year 2004, ATR incorrectly calculated the number of its pending cases. The correct number was 57, rather than 56; one request had been inadvertently closed in the computer system in Fiscal Year 2004.

** When contributing to the Annual FOIA Report for Fiscal Year 2004, OPA incorrectly calculated the number of its pending cases. The correct number was 10, rather than 5.

*** In October 2004, OVW was separated from the Office of Justice Programs and began its official status as a separate component of the Department of Justice. Prior to October 2004, all FOIA requests were handled through the Office of Justice Programs and the statistics were reflected in its report.



B. DISPOSITION OF INITIAL REQUESTS

  NUMBER
OF
TOTAL
GRANTS		 NUMBER
OF
PARTIAL
GRANTS		 NUMBER
OF
DENIALS		 NO
RECORDS		 REFERRALS REQUEST
WITHDRAWN		 FEE-
RELATED
REASON		 RECORDS
NOT
REASONABLY
DESCRIBED		 NOT A
PROPER
FOIA
REQUEST
FOR SOME
OTHER
REASON		 NOT AN
AGENCY
RECORD		 DUPLICATE
REQUEST		 OTHER*
OFFICE OF THE AG 39 27 10 111 24 11 5 0 0 10 4 10
OFFICE OF THE DAG 17 14 3 62 7 6 1 1 0 0 0 9
OFFICE OF THE ASSOC. AG 1 5 0 33 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 2
 
ANTITRUST 20 31 16 49 2 13 4 0 10 0 0 0
BOP 9,785 1,504 236 692 86 45 393 243 371 265 123 0
ATF 228 542 180 220 14 7 73 64 230 32 44 85
CIVIL 140 50 27 200 14 7 4 0 4 0 19 2
CIVIL RIGHTS 216 199 28 95 44 18 2 3 16 0 2 42
CRS 0 0 0 2 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
CRIMINAL 83 88 49 501 22 40 0 419 34 43 10 3
DEA 61 601 159 267 0 19 62 115 162 11 11 101
ENRD 35 29 0 53 10 13 0 0 1 0 2 2
EOIR 6,406 105 25 1,906 50 30 573 366 6 0 363 40
EOUSA 416 637 587 639 52 18 173 465 148 98 40 562
EOUST 3 14 2 22 1 2 3 17 1 0 0 0
FBI 69 2,296 179 7,210 0 778 42 11 29 0 535 6
FCSC 5 0 0 4 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
JMD 94 6 4 1,758 13 15 0 41 34 105 95 0
NDIC 2 9 0 35 6 1 1 1 0 0 0 6
COPS 21 26 0 12 0 1 1 0 0 0 0 0
ODR 0 0 0 4 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
OFDT 1 1 0 5 4 0 0 0 0 1 0 0
OIP 32 5 1 45 174 26 1 5 0 99 6 51
OIG 38 64 14 84 5 0 1 0 2 0 0 0
OIPR 4 6 31 9 0 1 0 0 0 1 0 0
OIPL 0 1 0 6 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
OJP 111 71 0 94 28 9 0 0 0 0 1 0
OLC 19 10 10 43 0 0 0 1 2 0 0 0
OLP 10 33 1 25 2 1 0 1 0 3 1 4
OLA 18 11 0 20 1 11 3 1 0 1 1 7
Pardon Attorney 15 19 0 8 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 0
OPR 7 35 15 26 6 1 2 0 0 0 0 3
Public Affairs 1 2 0 12 2 3 2 0 0 0 1 2
OSG 27 16 16 15 2 0 0 5 5 0 0 0
OVW 3 6 0 1 0 2 0 0 0 0 0 2
PRAO 0 0 1 13 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
TAX 11 15 1 176 10 0 0 0 42 0 1 7
USMS 129 479 65 141 12 9 29 16 13 99 7 17
USNCB 9 44 9 121 2 1 0 1 3 0 2 13
USPC 463 65 8 148 2 303 21 0 0 0 1 0
 
TOTALS 18,539 7,066 1,677 14,867 595 1,393 1,396 1,776 1,113 768 1,269 976

* See following page for individual component explanations.


*EXPLANATION OF DISPOSITION OF INITIAL FOIA/PA REQUESTS:
OTHER REASONS FOR NONDISCLOSURE
(COLUMN MARKED "OTHER")

Component Number of Times Reason(s)
Office of the AG 10 7 7 Failure to comply with requirements
3 Document referred to it not responsive
Office of the DAG 9

5 Failure to comply with requirements
3 Record previously provided
1 Document referred to it not responsive

Office of the Assoc. AG 2 1 Failure to comply with requirements
1 Document referred to it not responsive
ATF 85 Failure to provide proof of identity
Civil 2 Requests for legal advice
Civil Rights 42 23 No certification of identity/consent
15 Unable to locate requester
4 Unable to locate file
Criminal 3 No deliverable return address included with request
DEA 101 Cases administratively closed: correspondence to requester returned due to unknown forwarding address or request referred to another office for handling
ENRD 2 Could not contact requester
EOIR 40 20 Unable to locate record
13 Computer error
6 Combined with another FOIA number
1 Requester referred to EOIR Web site
EOUSA 562 295 No certification of identity/consent
248 Administrative closing
19 No forwarding address
FBI 6 Request opened in error
NDIC 6 No certification of identity/consent
OIP 51 46 Failure to comply with requirements
3 Document referred to it not responsive
2 Record previously provided
OLP 4 2 Failure to comply with requirements
1 Document referred to it not responsive
1 Record previously provided
OLA 7 6 Failure to comply with requirements
1 Document referred to it not responsive
OPR 3 2 No certification of identity/consent
1 Fugitive disentitlement doctrine
Public Affairs 2 Failure to comply with requirements
OVW 2 No response to request for additional information
Tax 7 3Correspondence went unclaimed
2 Referred records not within the scope of request
1 Request for materials available on Tax Division Web site 1 Request received in error
USMS 17 11 No forwarding address
5 Requester no longer interested
1 No forwarding address
USNCB 13 11 Failure to reply
2 Failure to comply with requirements


EXEMPTIONS CLAIMED UNDER THE FREEDOM OF INFORMATION ACT

  (1) (2) (3) (4) (5) (6) (7)(A) (7)(B) (7)(C) (7)(D) (7)(E) (7)(F) (8) (9)
OFFICE OF THE AG 8 5 1 0 18 24 2 0 12 2 1 0 0 0
OFFICE OF THE DAG 1 1 1 0 10 13 2 0 9 3 1 0 0 0
OFFICE OF THE ASSOC. AG 0 0 0 0 2 3 0 0 1 0 0 0 0 0
 
ANTITRUST 0 3 11 6 17 17 18 0 11 13 0 0 0 0
BOP 0 184 0 12 400 93 3 1 319 13 69 198 0 0
ATF 0 271 141 33 36 231 65 0 319 28 38 1 0 0
CIVIL 0 7 0 0 57 19 9 1 3 0 4 0 0 0
CIVIL RIGHTS 0 3 3 3 62 9 33 0 211 0 0 0 0 0
CRS 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
CRIMINAL 6 6 20 0 57 111 5 0 109 12 3 4 0 0
DEA 9 517 31 25 27 158 39 0 604 316 68 473 0 0
ENRD 0 2 1 4 11 19 8 0 18 0 0 0 0 0
EOIR 0 0 0 0 1 130 0 0 1 0 0 0 0 0
EOUSA 1 198 251 11 495 498 54 0 970 199 40 80 1 0
EOUST 0 5 0 1 8 16 4 0 4 3 4 0 0 0
FBI 532 1,823 389 15 114 1,199 172 44 2,477 1,483 558 44 0 1
FCSC 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
JMD 0 0 0 3 2 3 0 0 1 0 10 0 0 0
NDIC 0 5 0 0 0 8 1 0 3 1 1 0 0 0
COPS 0 6 0 2 4 19 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
ODR 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
OFDT 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 0
OIP 0 1 0 0 2 4 0 0 1 0 0 0 0 0
OIG 4 0 0 1 4 4 8 0 60 1 1 0 0 0
OIPR 35 0 0 0 2 4 0 0 4 0 0 0 0 0
OIPL 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
OJP 0 0 0 10 2 71 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
OLC 4 0 0 0 19 2 0 0 1 0 0 0 0 0
OLP 0 0 0 0 2 31 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
OLA 0 0 0 0 5 10 1 0 1 0 0 0 0 0
Pardon Attorney 0 0 0 0 12 15 0 0 15 0 0 0 0 0
OPR 0 24 2 0 14 41 4 0 42 3 1 1 0 0
Public Affairs 0 0 0 0 2 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
OSG 0 0 0 0 27 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
OVW 0 0 0 0 0 6 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
PRAO 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
TAX 0 0 6 0 12 0 2 0 13 0 3 1 0 0
USMS 1 71 4 1 25 77 11 2 442 12 28 10 0 0
USNCB 0 39 0 0 0 15 4 0 48 39 10 0 0 0
USPC 0 0 0 0 10 47 0 0 47 0 0 0 0 0
 
TOTALS 601 3,171 861 127 1,460 2,900 445 48 5,746 2,128 840 813 1 1

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