Chief FOIA officer's recent email (U.S. Forest Service)

Sai filed this request with the U.S. Forest Service of the United States of America.
Tracking #

2025-FS-WO-01228-F

Multi Request Chief FOIA officer's recent email
Status
Completed

From: Sai

Dear U.S. Forest Service,

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 U.S. Forest Service'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: U.S. Forest Service

Dear Sai: This email acknowledges receipt of your Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) request, dated October 22, 2024, which was received in the United States Forest Service (USFS) Washington Office (WO) FOIA Service Center on October 23, 2024, and assigned tracking number 2025-FS-WO-01228-F. You requested: 1) All emails in the FS-Chief FOIA Officers email inbox, received, sent and spam folders on October 19, 2024, and 2) Total full-time count of people who work for the FOIA Office as of October 19, 2024. (Date Range for Record Search: From 10/19/2024 To 10/19/2024) Please be advisedthat the WO FOIA Service Center has a backlog of pending FOIA requests.  We are diligently working to process each request inthe order in which it was received.  Your patience is greatly appreciated. To check on the status of your request, contact the assigned FOIA Specialist, Laura Hoover, directly at Laura.Hoover@usda.gov and reference your assigned case number, 2025-FS-WO-01228-F.
Thank you,
Rebecca
FOIA Service Center Team USDA - Forest Service, Washington Office
sm.fs.wofoia@usda.gov

From: U.S. Forest Service

Dear Mr. Sai,

This email is being sent to provide the final response package to your FOIArequest assigned tracking number, 2025-FS-WO-01228-F. If you have any troubleopening the attached letter or responsive records, please contact me directlyat Laura.Hoover@usda.gov and I willresend the documents. (mailto:Laura.Hoover@usda.gov)

Thank you for your interest in the activities of the USDA Forest Service.

Respectfully,

Respectfully,

Laura Hoover
Government Information Specialist (FOIA)
Forest Service - Washington Office
Laura.Hoover@usda.gov (mailto:Laura.Hoover@usda.gov)