On Friday, the White House released its Status Report on Open Government, which provides a look at the Administration’s substantial steps to increase participation and collaboration in government, and to make government more transparent. This status report highlights the significant progress being made under the Administration’s unprecedented efforts to promote greater disclosure and efficiency in FOIA administration, including the Department of Justice’s launch of FOIA.Gov and OIP’s Fiscal Year 2012 initiative to focus on improving the FOIA process through the use of technology. You can read more about the Department’s efforts to improve transparency and advance America’s open government agenda on The Justice Blog

As part of our goal to make the OIP website the most comprehensive agency FOIA website, we have further updated the Training page of our site, with more inclusive information regarding the training seminars that are offered by OIP. The new Training page includes descriptions of the yearly training offered by OIP and the Office of Legal Education, information on specialized and public training seminars, and materials used at our various training events. We will continue to update this page with new materials as we provide as much educational information on the FOIA as possible.

To assist agencies in properly processing FOIA requests and to aid requesters in understanding the scope of Exemption 3, OIP has compiled an updated list of statutes that courts have found to qualify under Exemption 3. This list, along with the chart of statutes that agencies used in conjunction with Exemption 3 during Fiscal Year 2010, can always be found on the FOIA Resources page of our site.