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How Government Agencies Can Cut FOIA Processing Time by 80% with Batch PII Redaction
The US Department of Justice FOIA backlog exceeded 100,000 requests in 2024. Federal agencies received 1.5 million FOIA requests in FY2024 — a 25% increase from FY2023. The average processing cost: $482 per request. For complex requests involving thousands of documents, costs escalate to hundreds of thousands of dollars.
The primary driver of FOIA processing cost and time is manual document review and redac...