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OGIS Timeline
| Sept. 8, 2009 | Miriam Nisbet opens the Office of Government Information Services |
| Sept. 9, 2009 | OGIS opens its first case involving a delay |
| Sept. 30, 2009 | Director Nisbet testifies before the Senate Judiciary Committee at a hearing on "Advancing Freedom of Information in the New Era of Responsibility" |
| Oct. 13, 2009 | Staff Assistant Barbara Gordon joins OGIS |
| Oct. 20, 2009 | Website goes live |
| Oct. 26, 2009 | Candace Boston joins the OGIS staff as its first analyst |
| Nov. 10, 2009 | OGIS adds to its web site a case-tracking log allowing customers to check the status of their OGIS cases |
| Nov. 22, 2009 | Attorney Adviser Corinna Zarek becomes OGIS's fourth staff member |
| Dec. 6, 2009 | Karen Finnegan joins the OGIS staff as deputy director |
| Dec. 7, 2009 | OGIS and the Department of Justice' s Office of Information Policy (OIP) co-host a meeting for FOIA Public Liaisons to discuss the new FOIA landscape |
| Jan. 21, 2010 | OGIS receives its 50th case |
| Feb. 9-11 & 24-26, 2010 | OGIS works through the blizzards of 2010 |
| Mar. 1, 2010 | Analyst Carrie McGuire joins the OGIS staff |
| Mar. 9, 2010 | OGIS receives its 100th case |
| Mar. 15-19, 2010 | OGIS participates in a number of Sunshine Week events |
| Mar. 18, 2010 | Director Nisbet testifies before the House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform's Information Policy, Census, and National Archives Subcommittee |
| Mar. 23, 2010 | OGIS holds its first training session for FOIA Public Liaisons in collaboration with the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC) and OIP |
| Apr. 18-23, 2010 | Director Nisbet represents OGIS at the Chilean Council for Transparency |
| Apr. 29, 2010 | OGIS receives its 200th case |
| May 10, 2010 | Analyst Kirsten Mitchell becomes OGIS's seventh staff member |
| May 24, 2010 | Adrianna Rodriguez becomes OGIS's first law clerk |
| July 14, 2010 | OGIS receives its 300th case |
| Aug. 24, 2010 | Director Nisbet represents OGIS at the 7th National Transparency Week Conference in Mexico City, Mexico |
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