Source: United States Department of Justice
The Office of Information Policy (OIP) has released its Summary of Annual FOIA Reports for Fiscal Year (FY) 2025. This summary provides an overview of FOIA activities across the government during the previous fiscal year, highlights key statistics in FOIA administration, and identifies trends in FOIA processing. These summaries offer agencies and the public an accessible way to understand overall FOIA administration.
As highlighted in this year’s summary, the government received another record-setting 1,707,197 requests during FY 2025 – a 13.7% increase over the previous fiscal year. Agencies also processed a record-high 1,635,055 requests. For the past five consecutive years, the federal government has received and processed an increasing number of requests.
Much like the trend with requests, agencies received and processed more administrative appeals in FY 2025 compared to FY 2024. Agencies received 32,059 administrative appeals – a 59.38% increase over FY 2024 – and processed 23,108 appeals, a 24.4% increase. Improvements were also seen in several other areas. For example, 91% of all requests for expedited processing were adjudicated within 10 calendar days and agencies proactively disclosed 115% more records in FY 2025 than in FY 2024.
OIP’s latest summary is available on its Reports page, where it can be compared with previous summaries dating back to FY 2006. Agency FOIA data can be easily viewed, compared, and analyzed on the FOIA.gov data page.