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title: "FOIA & Public Records"
canonical: https://www.m-i-n-d.ai/minds/foia
jurisdiction: "US Federal + State"
last_verified: 2026-08-25
license: CC BY 4.0 — https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
attribution: "Source: MIND (m-i-n-d.ai)"
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# FOIA & Public Records

> US public records access compliance: DOJ Office of Information Policy (OIP) FOIA guidance and annual reports, the federal Freedom of Information Act (5 U.S.C. § 552) and its exemptions, and state public-records statutes and response-deadline rules — grounded exclusively in justice.gov/oip, the U.S. Code, and state public-records statutes.