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FOIA Case Logs — U.S. Department of the Interior
Released FOIA case logs for the United States Department of the Interior (DOI) covering 03-October-2006 through 20-October-2007. Useful for pattern research on Indian-affairs, land-management, and BIA-adjacent requests during the period.
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Source document
Document: FOIA Case Logs — U.S. Department of the Interior (Office of the Secretary), FY 2006–FY 2007
Date range covered: 03-October-2006 – 20-October-2007
Requested: 29-July-2007 · Released: 19-December-2007 · Posted: 15-March-2008
Custodian: U.S. Department of the Interior, Office of the Secretary, MS-116 SIB, 1951 Constitution Ave NW, Washington DC 20240 · osfoia@nbc.gov
How the Nation uses this log
Interior's FOIA case logs list request numbers, requesters (or "withheld under FOIA exemption"), subject, receipt date, and disposition. For Nation-facing research the log is useful in three ways:
- Identifying earlier requests on the same subject to piggyback on (avoids duplicative fee categorization).
- Tracking which subject areas produced release, partial release, or "no records" responses — a signal about where records are held (or claimed not to be held).
- Building a paper trail on Indian-affairs, land-management, and BIA-adjacent requests during a specific reporting period.
Companion resources: DOI's current FOIA program, the federal FOIA portal, and the National Archives records-locator.