Chief FOIA officer's recent email (Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation)
| Tracking # |
2025-FDIC-FOIA-00056 |
| Multi Request | Chief FOIA officer's recent email |
| Submitted | Oct. 20, 2024 |
| Due | Nov. 18, 2024 |
| Est. Completion | None |
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Communications
From: Sai
Dear Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation,
On behalf of myself and Fiat Fiendum, I hereby request the following records:
1. The one email in your chief FOIA officer's email inbox or equivalent which was received nearest and before October 19, 2024, midnight Eastern time, regardless of subject matter.
2. The one email in your chief FOIA officer's email spam folder or equivalent which was received nearest and before October 19, 2024, midnight Eastern time, regardless of subject matter.
3. The one email in your chief FOIA officer's sent email folder or equivalent which was sent nearest and before October 19, 2024, midnight Eastern time, regardless of subject matter.
4. The total full-time equivalent count of people who work for your FOIA office as of October 19, 2024.
This request is expressly limited to Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation's own FOIA office. Please do not refer it to any other agency or division. This request is expressly not a Privacy Act request, and no PA waiver will be provided.
Please provide the email records in EML, Maildir, MBOX, MIX, MSG, or PST format only — not PDF, Word, image, etc — including all metadata (e.g. full email headers as received/sent) and attachments, without alteration other than narrowly tailored electronic redaction of specifically claimed exemptions that do not affect any part of non exempt information (and, in particular, without rasterization).
Please provide the fourth record as a statement in your response letter, or at your option, as the most readily available record, in original electronic format as currently stored on your computer systems, which includes that information.
Please provide all records either as individual files, or as an unencrypted ZIP file, uploaded to MuckRock. Do not apply any encryption, DRM, or other restriction.
I request fee waiver, because
* Fiat Fiendum is a 501(c)(3) non-profit;
* this request is for public interest, non-commercial purposes;
* these records would give a snapshot of insight into the everyday processes of FOIA offices; and
* these records are being requested in order to conduct a government-wide audit of agencies' FOIA compliance.
In the event that you deny fee waiver, please process this request as-is, because I will not agree to any fees.
Please be sure to provide:
* 5 USC 552(a)(6)(A)(i)(II) FOIA Public Liaison information
* 5 USC 552(a)(6)(A)(i)(III)(aa) appeal information
* 5 USC 552(a)(6)(A)(i)(III)(bb) OGIS information
* 5 USC 552(a)(7)(A) tracking number
* 5 USC 552(a)(7)(B)(ii) completion ETA
Thank you in advance for your anticipated cooperation in this matter. I look forward to receiving your response to this request within 20 business days, as the statute requires.
Sincerely,
Sai
President, Fiat Fiendum, Inc.
P.S. Sai is my full legal name.
From: Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation
"This is an interim response to your above-noted Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) request. By this email, I am notifying you that, due to unusual circumstances, additional time will be necessary to complete the processing of th is request.
In general, the FOIA allows an agency twenty business days from its receipt of a request to make its determination. However, in the case of “unusual circumstances,” (i.e., (i) the need to search for and collect the records from field facilities or other establishments that are separate from the office processing your request; (ii) the need to search for, collect, and appropriately examine a voluminous amount of separate and distinct records; and/or (iii) the need for consultation with another agency having a substantial interest in the determination of the request or among two or more components of the agency having substantial subject-matter interest therein), the FOIA provides for an extension, by an additional ten days, of the determination period. See 5 U.S.C. § 552(a)(6)(B).
This serves as notice that we need more time to respond to your request due to the unusual circumstances designated as (i) above. We cannot provide a precise date when the final processing of your request will be completed, but we are proceeding with due diligence and will provide you with additional information on your request as soon as it becomes available. If you wish, you may limit the scope of your request which may hasten our final response.
Lastly, please note that the processing of th is request is subject to final determination that it reasonably describes the requested information and has been made in compliance with our published rules. You may contact me at natsmith@fdic.gov or our FOIA Public Liaison at FOIAPublicLiaison@fdic.gov or by telephone at 703-562-6040 for any further assistance and to discuss any aspect of your request.
Thank you for your continuing courtesy and patience.
Sincerely,
Natasha Smith
Government Information Specialist, Legal Division
Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation"
From: Muckrock Staff
To Whom It May Concern:
I wanted to follow up on the following Freedom of Information Act request, copied below, and originally submitted on Oct. 22, 2024. Please let me know when I can expect to receive a response.
Thanks for your help, and let me know if further clarification is needed.
From: Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation
"Good morning,
Thank you for your email. The FDIC is continuing to work our way through an unprecedented volume of requests. We are actively processing your request, and hope to have our final response out to you as soon as we can.
Thank you for your continued patience"