The Department of Justice has improved its FOIA.gov website, although some...
The Department of Justice has improved its FOIA.gov website, although some room for upgrading still exists, the GAO said in a report (http://xrl.us/bnda7g). The improvements include data consistency checks for print and electronic reports submitted to Justice, a website search…
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feature, and information in Spanish, the GAO said. The “Advanced Reporting” feature, however, requires improvement, the GAO said. The feature, designed to generate custom reports, failed to consistently produce complete results -- for example, not including data from enough agencies, the GAO said. It said Justice officials reported they have attempted to improve the incomplete reports identified by the GAO. Justice explained that some agencies were left out of the reports because they had no data to relay, the GAO said. It conducted the FOIA.gov investigation at the request of Chairman Darrell Issa, R-Calif., and Ranking Member Elijah Cummings, D-Md., of the House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform.