DOJ FOIA 2006 ANNUAL REPORT - INITIAL FOIA/PA ACCESS REQUESTS
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 |
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OFFICE OF THE AG | 167 | 216 | 229 | 154 |
OFFICE OF THE DAG | 97 | 113 | 112 | 98 |
OFFICE OF THE ASSOC. AG | 28 | 37 | 50 | 15 |
ANTITRUST | 63 | 112 | 77 | 98 |
ATF | 118 | 1,626 | 1,665 | 79 |
BOP | 994 | 13,305 | 13,145 | 1,154 |
CIVIL | 13 | 481 | 479 | 15 |
CIVIL RIGHTS | 108 | 529 | 613 | 24 |
CRS | 0 | 4 | 4 | 0 |
CRIMINAL | 869 | 1,334 | 1,237 | 966 |
DEA | 332* | 1,883 | 1,785 | 430 |
ENRD | 31 | 142 | 132 | 41 |
EOIR | 1,731 | 10,093 | 10,891 | 933 |
EOUSA | 2040** | 4,189 | 4,485 | 1,744 |
EOUST | 8 | 52 | 56 | 4 |
FBI | 1,786 | 15,370 | 15,403 | 1,753 |
FCSC | 0 | 8 | 8 | 0 |
JMD | 32*** | 185**** | 178 | 39 |
NDIC | 3 | 59 | 60 | 2 |
COPS | 4 | 81 | 82 | 3 |
ODR | 0 | 10 | 10 | 0 |
OFDT | 1 | 21 | 20 | 2 |
OIP | 41 | 504 | 498 | 47 |
OIG | 3 | 206 | 200 | 9 |
OIPR | 10 | 49 | 47 | 12 |
OIPL | 7 | 3 | 9 | 1 |
OJP | 64 | 391 | 377 | 78 |
OLC | 2 | 78 | 74 | 6 |
OLP | 39 | 104 | 99 | 44 |
OLA | 33 | 35 | 26 | 42 |
Pardon Attorney | 1 | 36 | 37 | 0 |
OPR | 15 | 102 | 99 | 18 |
Public Affairs | 36 | 15 | 40 | 11 |
OSG | 18 | 110 | 105 | 23 |
OVW | 3 | 21 | 23 | 1 |
PRAO | 0 | 13 | 13 | 0 |
TAX | 0 | 223 | 222 | 1 |
USMS | 172 | 1,142 | 1,226 | 88 |
USNCB | 1 | 194 | 194 | 1 |
USPC | 67 | 916 | 915 | 68 |
TOTALS | 8,937 | 53,992 | 54,925 | 8,004 |
* The discrepancy in the final pending count for the Annual FOIA Report for Fiscal Year 2005 and the beginning count for the Fiscal Year 2006 report is due to the transfer of data from one tracking database to the current redacting and tracking systm. Reconciliation of this data is still an ongoing process.
** Last year's annual report reflects that EOUSA had 1,706 pending requests at the end of Fiscal Year 2005. In past years, the number of requests EOUSA reported as pending never fully accounted for requests received during the year. Since EOUSA has automated its annual report, it is now able to generate more accurate data.
*** In Fiscal Year 2005, all FOIA requests received at the Department of Justice (DOJ) Mail Referral Unit were counted in the JMD report. This included requests that were referred to other DOJ components, as well as to agencies outside the DOJ. Beginning in the Fiscal Year 2006 report, JMD is counting only those FOIA requests that were transferred to other federal agencies. FOIA requests that are referred within the DOJ are counted by the components that process the requests. In addition, in Fiscal Year 2005, an error was made in listing 169 FOIA requests from the Mail Referral Unit as pending, because these 169 FOIA requests actually had been referred within the Department. This adjusts the number of requests pending at the end of Fiscal Year 2005 to 32.
**** In addition, JMD's Mail Referral Unit assisted FOIA requesters in 187 instances by either forwarding their requests or informing them of the appropriate federal agency to handle their requests.
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* | |
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OFFICE OF THE AG | 24 | 44 | 15 | 87 | 21 | 12 | 5 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 19 |
OFFICE OF THE DAG | 13 | 17 | 14 | 44 | 7 | 4 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 12 |
OFFICE OF THE ASSOC. AG | 4 | 2 | 3 | 31 | 2 | 2 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 3 |
ANTITRUST | 6 | 14 | 14 | 40 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
ATF | 204 | 492 | 166 | 249 | 10 | 7 | 97 | 49 | 241 | 63 | 41 | 46 |
BOP | 9,693 | 1,169 | 156 | 622 | 38 | 67 | 384 | 226 | 387 | 261 | 142 | 0 |
CIVIL | 129 | 56 | 29 | 199 | 17 | 7 | 7 | 4 | 16 | 4 | 11 | 0 |
CIVIL RIGHTS | 245 | 137 | 38 | 105 | 4 | 17 | 8 | 8 | 7 | 0 | 7 | 37 |
CRS | 0 | 1 | 0 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
CRIMINAL | 85 | 105 | 65 | 430 | 16 | 29 | 1 | 429 | 41 | 27 | 9 | 0 |
DEA | 71 | 624 | 88 | 266 | 5 | 10 | 122 | 191 | 239 | 15 | 22 | 132 |
ENRD | 18 | 28 | 2 | 62 | 2 | 13 | 0 | 5 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
EOIR | 7,463 | 266 | 41 | 1,893 | 120 | 55 | 250 | 429 | 0 | 0 | 314 | 60 |
EOUSA | 408 | 695 | 666 | 674 | 48 | 22 | 205 | 539 | 186 | 222 | 30 | 790 |
EOUST | 5 | 13 | 1 | 18 | 0 | 1 | 5 | 13 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
FBI | 54 | 2,432 | 146 | 11,310 | 0 | 720 | 90 | 52 | 6 | 0 | 586 | 7 |
FCSC | 0 | 0 | 0 | 7 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
JMD | 72 | 22 | 4 | 28 | 19 | 7 | 1 | 0 | 16 | 6 | 1 | 2 |
NDIC | 9 | 9 | 2 | 32 | 7 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
COPS | 35 | 32 | 0 | 10 | 3 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 |
ODR | 0 | 0 | 0 | 10 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
OFDT | 3 | 3 | 0 | 4 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 8 | 0 | 0 |
OIP | 49 | 5 | 2 | 70 | 248 | 33 | 3 | 3 | 0 | 53 | 2 | 30 |
OIG | 34 | 56 | 16 | 84 | 5 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 |
OIPR | 5 | 7 | 28 | 5 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 |
OIPL | 1 | 1 | 0 | 5 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
OJP | 116 | 40 | 5 | 175 | 20 | 18 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
OLC | 11 | 24 | 18 | 20 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
OLP | 20 | 45 | 0 | 17 | 13 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 0 |
OLA | 5 | 11 | 0 | 4 | 1 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 2 |
Pardon Attorney | 10 | 13 | 1 | 10 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
OPR | 15 | 27 | 13 | 24 | 7 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 10 |
Public Affairs | 5 | 8 | 0 | 20 | 1 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 3 |
OSG | 27 | 20 | 13 | 25 | 5 | 0 | 0 | 8 | 7 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
OVW | 13 | 3 | 0 | 5 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
PRAO | 1 | 0 | 1 | 10 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
TAX | 4 | 9 | 2 | 167 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 22 | 1 | 4 | 13 |
USMS | 270 | 510 | 76 | 126 | 16 | 11 | 15 | 5 | 38 | 10 | 27 | 122 |
USNCB | 6 | 34 | 26 | 88 | 4 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 4 | 0 | 1 | 30 |
USPC | 404 | 71 | 2 | 92 | 2 | 73 | 29 | 0 | 241 | 0 | 1 | 0 |
TOTALS | 19,537 | 7,045 | 1,653 | 17,071 | 647 | 1,122 | 1,229 | 1,965 | 1,455 | 677 | 1,203 | 1,321 |
* See following page for individual component explanations.
*EXPLANATION OF DISPOSITION OF INITIAL FOIA/PA REQUESTS:
OTHER REASONS FOR NONDISCLOSURE
(COLUMN MARKED "OTHER")
Component | Number of Times | Reason(s) |
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Office of the AG | 19 |
11 Document referred to it not responsive |
Office of the DAG | 12 |
11 Document referred to it not responsive |
Office of the Assoc. AG | 3 | 2 Failure to comply with requirements 1 Document referred to it not responsive |
ATF | 46 | 43 Failure to provide proof of identity/consent 3 Unable to locate requester |
Civil Rights | 37 | 17 Unable to locate requester 13 No certification of identity/consent 7 Unable to locate file |
ENRD | 1 | Unable to contact requester |
EOIR | 60 | 45 Unable to locate file 10 Computer error 5 Combined with another FOIA request |
EOUSA | 790 | 440 No certification of identity/consent 285 Administrative closing 64 No forwarding address |
FBI | 7 | Unable to locate file |
JMD | 2 | 1 Unable to locate requester 1 Records not responsive to request |
NDIC | 1 | No certification of identity/consent |
OIP | 30 | 27 Failure to comply with requirements 1 Deferred decision to another component/agency 1 Document referred to it not responsive 1 Record peviously provided |
OIPL | 1 | Failure to comply with requirements |
OLA | 2 | Document referred to it not responsive |
OPR | 10 | 9 No certification of identity/consent 1 Records outside scope of request |
Public Affairs | 3 | Failure to comply with requirements |
Tax | 13 | Information made available on Tax Division Web site |
USMS | 122 | 49 No certification of identity/consent 30 Access granted by other means 11 FOIA/PA not applicable 10 Failure to identify district 8 No forwarding address 8 Requester no longer interested 6 Failure to provide CATS ID |
USNCB | 30 | 16 Failure to reply 10 Failure to comply with requirements 4 Unable to locate file |
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) | |
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OFFICE OF THE AG | 7 | 5 | 4 | 0 | 31 | 17 | 0 | 0 | 23 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 |
OFFICE OF THE DAG | 9 | 1 | 7 | 0 | 24 | 5 | 4 | 0 | 6 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 |
OFFICE OF THE ASSOC. AG | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 5 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 |
ANTITRUST | 0 | 1 | 8 | 3 | 13 | 4 | 9 | 0 | 5 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
ATF | 0 | 257 | 118 | 33 | 72 | 188 | 55 | 0 | 288 | 23 | 57 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
BOP | 0 | 266 | 0 | 25 | 494 | 101 | 11 | 0 | 0 | 375 | 20 | 81 | 0 | 0 |
CIVIL | 1 | 0 | 2 | 8 | 54 | 15 | 10 | 0 | 5 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
CIVIL RIGHTS | 0 | 8 | 8 | 5 | 75 | 12 | 23 | 0 | 130 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
CRS | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
CRIMINAL | 2 | 7 | 15 | 1 | 70 | 116 | 32 | 0 | 104 | 15 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 |
DEA | 15 | 562 | 30 | 18 | 24 | 175 | 59 | 0 | 533 | 336 | 80 | 480 | 0 | 0 |
ENRD | 0 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 5 | 12 | 2 | 0 | 11 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
EOIR | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 306 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
EOUSA | 5 | 172 | 232 | 7 | 523 | 622 | 50 | 0 | 1,137 | 139 | 65 | 86 | 0 | 0 |
EOUST | 0 | 3 | 2 | 3 | 10 | 14 | 1 | 0 | 6 | 3 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
FBI | 693 | 1,923 | 463 | 4 | 117 | 2,159 | 145 | 40 | 2,531 | 1,604 | 610 | 54 | 0 | 0 |
FCSC | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
JMD | 0 | 0 | 0 | 9 | 4 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 13 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
NDIC | 0 | 6 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 6 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
COPS | 0 | 3 | 0 | 1 | 4 | 32 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
ODR | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
OFDT | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 0 |
OIP | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 6 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
OIG | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 26 | 4 | 0 | 50 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
OIPR | 28 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 7 | 3 | 2 | 0 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
OIPL | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
OJP | 0 | 2 | 5 | 8 | 4 | 43 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
OLC | 5 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 40 | 4 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
OLP | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 43 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
OLA | 0 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 5 | 8 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
Pardon Attorney | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 8 | 9 | 0 | 0 | 9 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
OPR | 1 | 15 | 2 | 0 | 11 | 35 | 2 | 0 | 34 | 1 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 0 |
Public Affairs | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 6 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
OSG | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 33 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
OVW | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
PRAO | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
TAX | 0 | 0 | 5 | 0 | 4 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 6 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
USMS | 0 | 84 | 8 | 2 | 18 | 86 | 4 | 0 | 443 | 9 | 28 | 12 | 0 | 0 |
USNCB | 0 | 34 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 17 | 5 | 0 | 52 | 33 | 7 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
USPC | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 9 | 61 | 0 | 0 | 61 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
TOTALS | 769 | 3,357 | 910 | 129 | 1,678 | 4,141 | 420 | 40 | 5,461 | 2,548 | 877 | 720 | 0 | 0 |
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