OPM - Initial Guidance Regarding President Trump’s Executive Order Defending Women (Defense Intelligence Agency)
| Tracking # |
FOIA-00191-2025 |
| Multi Request | OPM - Initial Guidance Regarding President Trump’s Executive Order Defending Women |
| Submitted | Feb. 7, 2025 |
| Due | March 10, 2025 |
| Est. Completion | None |
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From: Russel Neiss
To Whom It May Concern:
By way of background:
On January 29, 2025, Charles Ezell, Acting Director, U.S. Office of Personnel Management, sent a memo to all Heads and Acting Heads of Departments and Agencies entitled "Initial Guidance Regarding President Trump’s Executive Order Defending Women." Amongst other things, the memo instructed all Heads and Acting Heads of Departments and Agencies to prepare two reports to be sent to defendingwomen@opm.gov by February 7, 2025 at 12:00pm Eastern.
Pursuant to the Freedom of Information Act, I hereby request the following records:
1. A copy of the complete list of actions taken in response to OPM's January 29, 2025 memo entitled: "Initial Guidance Regarding President Trump’s Executive Order Defending
Women" and the President's Executive Order entitled "Defending Women from Gender Ideology Extremism and Restoring Biological Truth to the Federal Government "
2. A copy of any agency plans to fully comply with OPM's January 29, 2025 memo entitled: "Initial Guidance Regarding President Trump’s Executive Order Defending
Women" and the President's Executive Order entitled "Defending Women from Gender Ideology Extremism and Restoring Biological Truth to the Federal Government "
The requested documents will be made available to the general public, and this request is not being made for commercial purposes.
In the event that there are fees, I would be grateful if you would inform me of the total charges in advance of fulfilling my request. I would prefer the request filled electronically, by e-mail attachment if available or CD-ROM if not.
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,
Russel Neiss
From: Defense Intelligence Agency
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I wanted to follow up on the following Freedom of Information Act request, copied below, and originally submitted on Feb. 10, 2025. Please let me know when I can expect to receive a response. You had assigned it reference number #FOIA-00191-2025.
Thanks for your help, and let me know if further clarification is needed.
From: Defense Intelligence Agency
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* For full transparency, due to the current backlog of 1,300 requests and available resources, the average processing time for Privacy Act requests is 573 days and for FOIA requests is 879 days.
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V/r,
DIA FOIA Service Center
www.dia.mil/FOIA.aspx<http://www.dia.mil/FOIA.aspx>
(301) 394-6253
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~WRD0000
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 Feb. 10, 2025. Please let me know when I can expect to receive a response. You had assigned it reference number #FOIA-00191-2025.
Thanks for your help, and let me know if further clarification is needed.
From: Defense Intelligence Agency
Classification: UNCLASSIFIED
======================================================
Greetings,
Thank you for contacting our Agency.
The review status for FOIA requests are as follows:
1. Initial Processing
2. Records Search/Review
3. FOIA SME Review
4. Record Processing
5. Referred for Consultation Review
6. Quality Control Review
7. Additional Action Required
8. Processing Actions Complete
9. Delivery to the Requester
Your request is currently in stage 1.
Important Notes:
* The Information Management Office (IMO) is not the owner of the requested records and multiple offices are in the coordination efforts to obtain, review and redact the potential records before they are provided to the requester.
* Processing times are dependent on coordination efforts, number of responsive records and the available resources, to complete the necessary actions.
* For full transparency, due to the current backlog of 1,300 requests and available resources, the average processing time for Privacy Act requests is 573 days and for FOIA requests is 879 days.
* These are averages and requests are processed in order of receipt.
* However, requests that are older in age/with fewer coordination efforts /pages are prioritized, when possible.
* Please note that each request is unique and may not need to go through every phase. Some requests also don't navigate through these stages in sequential order.
* Effective 1 February 2023, the DIA FOIA Service Center will post monthly updates containing the case number and review status of all open cases. Requesters may review this pdf, at their leisure, to identify the status of their FOIA request.
* https://www.dia.mil/FOIA/FOIA-Electronic-Reading-Room/
V/r,
DIA FOIA Service Center
www.dia.mil/FOIA.aspx<http://www.dia.mil/FOIA.aspx>
(301) 394-6253
-
~WRD0001