A month after senators Patrick Leahy and Charles Grassley complained bitterly, the Office of Government Information Services (OGIS) has still not released its long-delayed recommendations to Congress and the President on improving the Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) process.  OGIS should immediately release to the public recommendations for substantially improving how FOIA works for both agencies and requesters and regularly report on the government’s progress. Congress intended for OGIS to have an independent voice turning their experiences mediating disputes into ideas for making the process work better.  The idea was for OGIS to identify FOIA’s biggest weaknesses (delays? backlogs?), figure … Continue reading Leahy and Grassley: We want those OGIS recommendations. We do, too.