VI. Appeals of Initial Denials of FOIA/PA Requests.

A. Number of appeals. (This includes all access requests, whether first-party or third-party.

1. Number of appeals received during fiscal year 4,263

2.Number of appeals processed during fiscal year 3,626

B. Disposition of appeals.

1. Number completely upheld 911

2. Number partially reversed 425

3. Number completely reversed 115

a. Number of times each FOIA exemption used (counting each exemption once per appeal):

(1) Exemption 1 124

(2) Exemption 2 277

(3) Exemption 3 81

(4) Exemption 4 6

(5) Exemption 5 141

(6) Exemption 6 119

(7) Exemption 7(A) 115

(8) Exemption 7(B) 1

(9) Exemption 7(C) 925

(10) Exemption 7(D) 341

(11) Exemption 7(E)74

(12) Exemption 7(F)173

(13) Exemption 8 0

(14) Exemption 9 0

4. Other reasons for nondisclosure (total) 2,175

a. No records 687

b. Referrals 25

c. Request withdrawn 47

d. Fee-related reason 20

e. Records not reasonably described 0

f. Not a proper FOIA request for some other reason 80

g. Not an agency record 90

h. Duplicate request 16

i. Other (specify) 1,208

1) Remanded - 905

2) Failure of component to process initial action - 219

3) Judicial adjudication - 69

4) Expedited treatment - 15

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