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Welcome to the FDIC's FOIA Service Center. Here you can browse
for a wealth of information about the operations and activities of the
FDIC. If you have already filed a FOIA request with us, you can
check on the status of your request by calling the FDIC FOIA Service
Center at (202) 898-7021. The FOIA Service Center is open Monday
through Friday, exclusive of Federal holidays, from 8:30 a.m. until 5:00
p.m. The information that follows is a sample of
some of the information available from the FDIC's
Web site. We have also included our FOIA
Guide, and other information to assist you. Thank you for your
interest in the FDIC.
Public
Information
The FDIC's Web site is a storehouse of information and
it is all available at your fingertips! The site contains
consumer guides, research papers, statistics and data
concerning the banking industry and economic trends,
documents, and other information created or compiled by the
FDIC. You can review the information on-line or download it
for future use. You can use the Quick Links
and Search the Site features at the top of
each page, or do a full
text search to locate the information you need.
Another place to begin is on the FDIC's Publications &
Documents web page, where you can see a list of those
documents available by mail or available for inspection and
copying at our Washington, D.C. headquarters. You are also encouraged to
review the records available in the Reading Room.
FDIC FOIA
Information
FOIA is a federal statute ( 5 USC
552) which affords any person the right to obtain federal
agency records unless the records (or a part of the records)
are protected from disclosure by any of the nine exemptions
contained in the law or by one of three special law
enforcement record exclusions. The FDIC has issued
Regulation 309.5 implementing the Freedom of Information
Act.
If you have reviewed the public information available on
the FDIC's web site and checked the information available
through the Publications
& Documents and Reading Room sections of the FDIC web site, but you
still can't find what you are looking for, then you can
consider filing a Freedom of Information Act (FOIA)
request.
The FDIC's FOIA Guide: Gaining
Access to FDIC Information and this web page will help
you understand how the FOIA can be used to obtain records
which are not otherwise readily available.
U.S. Department of Justice FOIA Reference
Guide is another excellent reference for FOIA
information.
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