RESPONDING TO INFORMATION REQUESTS IN A FAILING FOIA SYSTEM HOW YOU CAN GET A GRIP ON YOUR RFIs Agencies and citizens alike are suffering major headaches with each request for information piled onto the heap. These skyrocketing numbers represent a change in the information landscape. 800,000 713,168 This is the number of new RFIs government received in 2015, while simultaneously processing an unprecedented 770,000 backlogged B 750,000 requests during the same fiscal year.1 F B- 700,000 C D- 650,000 2/3 C- 600,000 550,000 D D+ 500,000 2 21 211 212 21 21 21 94% 10 out of the 15 most requested $480,235,968 Processing of requests & repeals agencies are ranked below a C-, a failing This is the total cost of FOIA-related 6% grade, in terms of FOIA compliance:2 activities across government in 2015.1 Litigation-related activities Government agencies are dealing with INQUIRIES ARE AGENCIES ARE more data than ever. Continuing in this way puts government agencies’ efficiency, STOCKPILING STRUGGLING pocketbooks and reputations at risk. Ordinarily, the FOIA workflow looks like this ... PROCESS THE REQUEST REVIEW AND REDACT PRODUCE THE RECORD Responding to an incoming request starts Social Security Numbers, names, phone numbers When data has been located and subjected with the main culling and vetting for validity and email addresses are just a few pieces of to adequate review, it must be endorsed that happens after a request has been information that need to be meticulously redacted and delivered to the requester in the made. Then the documents are pulled. from the pages of requested documents. proper format. But with FOIA solutions from LexisNexis, the workflow is ... FASTER EASIER CLEANER Filter and cull non-responsive e-discovery and Make data sets even more manageable by coding Distribute your tasks across multiple scanned documents before review, eliminating and organizing them for faster review and redaction automated workstations and produce the unnecessary costs and reducing response time. with tools that can turn scanned pages into readable documents in any of over 2,000 file types. text and make data more searchable. ABOUT LEXISNEXIS SOURCES LexisNexis Software Solutions provides agencies, law firms and legal departments of all sizes with 1. Summary of Annual FOIA Reports for Fiscal Year 2015, U.S. Department of Justice world class business of law and litigation software tools. Our innovative software and mobile 2. Access to Information Scorecard 2015, Center for Effective Government solutions include competitive solutions for eDiscovery, case analysis and presentation, enterprise legal management (ELM), customer relationship management (CRM) and practice management. LexisNexis, Lexis Advance, lexis.com and the Knowledge Burst logo are registered trademarks of Reed Elsevier Properties Inc., used under license. Concordance, CaseMap and TextMap are registered trademarks of LexisNexis, a division of RELX Inc. Other products or services may be trademarks or registered trademarks of their respective companies. © 2016 LexisNexis. All rights reserved..