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 152 380 373 159
OFFICE OF THE DAG 72 185 165 92
OFFICE OF THE ASSOC AG 38 60 82 16
OSG 0 68 68 0
OIG 10 147 157 0
OPD 16 37 48 5
OLC 0 46 42 4
Public Affairs 22 78 71 29
OIP 16 136 140 12
OIPR 0 46 46 0
USNCB 51 304 329 26
OPR 13 110 110 13
OLA 50 144 118 76
Pardon Attorney 6 21 25 2
COPS 8 250 245 13
EOUSA * * 3,501 *
EOUST 3 104 107 0
Intergovernmental Affairs 3 13 14 2
 
ANTITRUST 31 276 292 15
CIVIL 44 557 549 52
CIVIL RIGHTS 242 914 1,055 101
CRIMINAL 699 1,499 1,499 699
JMD 24 225 242 7
ENRD 43 238 257 24
TAX 20 385 403 2
 
EOIR 14 3,357 3,348 23
DEA 106 2,091 2,051 146
FBI 15,380 15,780 20,344 10,816
INS 17,911 143,591 148,887 12,615
OJP 4 491 491 4
BOP 419 7,641** 7,782** 278
USMS 32 1,198 1,184 46
CRS 0 10 10 0
USPC 89 974 1,036 27
FCSC 2 26 28 0
NDIC 0 6 6 0
 
TOTALS 35,520 181,388 195,105 25,304

* EOUSA report omits any statistical information that could not be verified accurately.

** This does not include the thousands of requests by inmates for local review of records maintained in the Inmate Central File, e.g., one region reported 4,372 institution reviews by inmates.




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WITHDRAWN		 FEE-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 91 60 4 135 33 11 22 2 2 0 8 5
OFFICE OF THE DAG 28 26 1 67 20 4 12 0 0 0 5 2
OFFICE OF THE ASSOC AG 6 17 1 49 4 0 3 0 1 0 0 1
OSG 38 5 5 11 5 0 0 4 0 0 0 0
OIG 30 65 14 36 10 2 0 0 0 0 0 0
OPD 8 3 0 30 3 1 1 0 0 0 0 2
OLC 12 2 9 19 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Public Affairs 5 6 1 43 6 1 4 0 2 0 1 2
OIP 72 1 0 18 15 3 4 0 11 0 10 6
OIPR 9 2 23 12 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
USNCB 43 26 51 140 12 0 0 0 3 0 2 29
OPR 13 34 28 33 13 2 0 2 0 0 1 2
OLA 30 18 1 39 6 6 11 0 3 0 3 1
Pardon Attorney 6 10 2 5 0 0 0 2 0 0 0 0
COPS 171 15 4 31 3 10 2 5 0 0 4 0
EOUSA 410 734 657 83 186 21 95 307 70 0 30 409
EOUST 78 11 11 15 0 1 2 0 0 0 0 0
Intergovernmental Affairs 4 0 0 7 0 0 3 0 0 0 0 0
 
ANTITRUST 93 85 38 60 3 11 0 0 0 0 0 2
CIVIL 128 48 32 266 8 26 12 6 7 3 13 0
CIVIL RIGHTS 483 195 36 154 89 23 14 9 20 1 2 29
CRIMINAL 170 261 398 68 48 4 0 2 0 0 2 559
JMD 156 17 2 29 17 12 5 0 0 3 0 1
ENRD 74 60 4 84 10 16 3 5 0 0 0 1
TAX 35 32 4 306 3 3 0 4 13 0 3 0
 
EOIR 1,335 26 174 127 10 10 29 1,602 0 0 2 0
DEA 182 1,193 119 389 6 4 108 2 3 0 24 21
FBI 996 3,962 455 7,516 710 1,453 718 181 2,427 0 1,736 190
INS 58,007 22,439 880 10,025 95 993 129 785 3,840 6,980 3,130 41,584
OJP 354 55 1 42 23 1 0 0 0 15 0 0
BOP 1,489 1,071 166 510 463 39 91 60 36 123 49 1,583
USMS 215 440 60 142 10 7 27 15 240 0 9 19
CRS 4 1 0 5 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
USPC 346 115 1 151 115 3 47 0 216 25 8 8
FCSC 12 1 6 9 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
NDIC 2 0 0 2 0 1 0 0 0 1 0 0
 
TOTALS 65,135 31,036 3,188 20,658 1,926 2,668 1,342 2,993 6,894 7,151 5,042 44,456



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

Organization Number Explanation
Office of the AG 5 Refusal to comply with requirements.
Office of the DAG 2 Refusal to comply with requirements.
Office of the Associate AG 1 Refusal to comply with requirements.
OPD 2 Refusal to comply with requirements.
Public Affairs 2 Refusal to comply with requirements.
OIP 6 Refusal to comply with requirements.
USNCB 29 Failure to comply.
OPR 2 Outside scope.
OLA 1 Refusal to comply with requirements.
EOUSA 409 136 Administrative Closings.
23 Available at GPO.
209 No power of Attorney or Certified ID.
11 No forwarding address.
30 State records.
ANTITRUST 2 Administratively closed - Requesters seeking copy of new Antitrust manual were advised that responsive record is available for sale by GPO.
CIVIL RIGHTS 29 13 No Consent/No ID.
12 Unable to locate requester.
4 Unable to locate file.
CRIMINAL 559 496 Not received in proper format
3 No longer interested.
60 Special letters.
JMD 1 Hard copy no longer published; website address provided.
ENRD 1 Could not contact requester.
DEA 21 Cases Administratively closed; correspondence to requester returned due to unknown forwarding address or case referred to another office for handling.
FBI 190 Mail returned - no forwarding address.
Requests were opened in error (Note: errors made during training of new employees.
INS 41,584 37,023 Records transferred to other INS offices.
4,561 Unable to locate.
BOP 1,583 1,205 Lack of proper release authorization. Includes:
947 - Lack of proper ID.
13 - Authorization too old.
245 - Authorization incomplete.
378 Original Authorization not provided.
USMS 19 11 FOIA/PA not available.
3 No forwarding address.
3 Requesters no longer interested.
2 Records referred not responsive to request.
USPC 8 Mail returned - forwarding address changed.




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 4 6 0 19 28 3 0 19 4 3 1 0 0
OFFICE OF THE DAG 2 3 1 0 13 9 2 0 3 1 0 0 0 0
OFFICE OF THE ASSOC AG 2 0 2 0 10 9 2 0 6 1 1 0 0 0
OSG 0 0 0 0 10 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
OIP 1 1 0 0 8 3 6 0 59 1 0 0 0 0
OPD 0 0 0 0 2 1 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 0
OLC 0 0 0 0 10 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 0 0
Public Affairs 0 0 0 0 6 3 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
OIP 1 1 1 0 1 1 0 0 1 0 0 0 0 0
OIPR 24 1 24 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
USNCB 0 13 0 0 0 46 8 0 77 21 5 1 0 0
OPR 0 20 0 0 24 1 15 0 47 2 0 0 0 0
OLA 0 0 0 0 4 16 0 0 6 0 0 0 0 0
PARDON ATTORNEY 0 0 1 0 7 9 0 0 7 0 0 0 0 0
COPS 0 0 0 0 6 15 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
EOUSA 10 47 383 10 516 451 250 151 996 250 62 90 0 0
EOUST 0 0 0 1 0 10 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Intergovernmental Affairs 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
 
ANTITRUST 3 1 60 28 48 11 33 0 35 45 0 0 0 0
CIVIL 0 2 1 7 62 13 14 0 5 0 0 0 0 0
CIVIL RIGHTS 1 0 19 4 42 11 43 0 191 13 0 1 0 0
CRIMINAL 6 12 27 0 72 204 83 0 202 33 0 3 0 0
JMD 0 2 1 5 4 5 6 0 0 0 0 2 0 0
ENRD 0 0 0 0 24 44 2 0 36 0 0 0 0 0
TAX 0 0 16 0 27 3 5 0 19 0 4 0 0 0
 
EOIR 0 0 5 0 1 27 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
DEA 15 1,004 32 35 18 216 37 0 1,052 616 31 898 0 0
FBI 1,024 1,679 384 6 50 520 256 9 4,073 2,387 587 92 4 1
INS 9 4,820 165 33 10,871 8,311 3,437 8 6,960 3,860 2,502 11 0 0
OJP 0 0 0 18 1 52 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
BOP 0 127 16 7 128 227 27 19 497 89 65 210 0 0
USMS 0 200 2 7 32 110 12 0 350 21 24 7 0 0
CRS 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
USPC 0 29 0 0 11 65 1 1 63 1 6 2 0 0
FCSC 0 0 4 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
NDIC 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
 
TOTALS 1,106 7,966 1,150 162 12,027 10,421 4,243 188 14,705 7,345 3,291 1,318 4 1

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