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FOIAflow drafts a records request against the governing statute and response window for the jurisdiction you select, then tracks the response clock from the date it was filed. When an agency denies a request, it reads the determination for the exemption cited and drafts the appeal against that claim. It reads the documents that come back and checks each one against everything already analyzed in the same investigation.

1,707,197

FOIA requests received government-wide, up 13.7 percent

FY2025 · DOJ Office of Information Policy

463,541

Requests still pending across all agencies at year end

FY2025 · FOIA.gov Annual FOIA Report data

257

Average days to process a complex request, across 328 of 410 federal FOIA offices

2026 · Poynter analysis

32,059

Administrative appeals filed government-wide, fewer than two for every hundred requests received

FY2025 · DOJ Office of Information Policy

“A popular Government, without popular information, or the means of acquiring it, is but a Prologue to a Farce or a Tragedy; or, perhaps both.”

James Madison, letter to W.T. Barry, August 4, 1822

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