A major victory for MFIA and government transparency! MFIA secured a settlement committing the State Department to an independent audit of its FOIA processing and steps to address its backlog. Congratulations to the students and supervisors behind this win!
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MFIA Secures Settlement Committing State Department to Address FOIA Backlog
The settlement reached in the Clinic’s long-running Scoville litigation brings the independent federal FOIA ombudsman into an effort to improve the Department’s FOIA compliance.