Headline:
Freedom of Information Act: National Guard Bureau Should Verify Data and Address Reported Challenges
Summary:
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What the record says:
The source headline is: Freedom of Information Act: National Guard Bureau Should Verify Data and Address Reported Challenges. The source summary says: What GAO Found The National Guard Bureau (NGB) collects and tracks Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) data from all three National Guard components—NGB, Army National Guard, and Air National Guard. NGB reports FOIA data to the Department of Defense (DOD). NGB officials stated they provide Army National Guard and Air National Guard FOIA data to the Army and the Air Force, respectively. The National Guard tracks data on FOIA requests received, processed, and backlogged through various systems (see figure). Freedom of Information Act Tracking Systems GAO found discrepancies in the accuracy of reported data that officials responsible for reporting National Guard FOIA data were unable to explain. Specifically, GAO found that the numbers of FOIA requests received, processed, and backlogged by the Army National Guard differed between Army National Guard and NGB data for fiscal years 2016 through
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Source:
https://www.gao.gov/products/gao-26-108472
AI writer note: OPENAI_API_KEY is empty, so this was generated with the built-in safe fallback writer.
https://www.gao.gov/products/gao-26-108472