foia.direct exists to make public-records work more accessible. That mission requires us to be transparent about what we publish, what we deliberately withhold, and how we handle requests from agencies and individuals who want their information removed.
Last updated: 2026-05-21
foia.direct aggregates public information about U.S. government agencies and the public-records request process. Our intelligence layer is derived from our own submitted FOIA and state public-records requests. We do not scrape protected sources, do not resell records we receive, and do not publish personal information about requesters or subjects beyond what is already public record. Agencies that wish to have their information removed from our public pages may contact corrections@foia.direct. We will remove the entry within 14 days of a good-faith request. Our methodology for response-rate statistics is published at /methodology and includes sample-size disclosure on every stat. We are an independent commercial product. We are not affiliated with MuckRock, the Reporters Committee for Freedom of the Press, or any government agency.
We collect publicly available information about U.S. law-enforcement agencies: contact channels (email addresses, mailing addresses, online portals), fee structures, statutory references that govern records access in each jurisdiction, and observations derived from our own submitted records requests (response times, denial reasons with statutory citations, fulfillment rates).
We do not collect or publish:
Every published agency contact carries a verification date and verification method. Default re-verification cadence is 180 days for contacts, 90 days for fee structures, and 365 days for statutory references. See /methodology for the full methodology behind our published statistics.
We report observed outcomes of records requests. We do not infer agency intent or "bad faith" from those outcomes. When an agency invokes a statutory exemption to deny a request, we record the citation. We do not editorialize on whether the exemption was justified. We let readers and reporters draw their own conclusions from the documented record.
Where our published intelligence includes strategy recommendations (in paid product tiers), those recommendations are framed as practitioner guidance based on patterns we have observed, not as judgments about whether any agency is behaving correctly under the law.
Agencies, individuals, and members of the public may request corrections or removal of any information on our public pages by emailing corrections@foia.direct. We will:
Our default posture on agency removal requests is to honor them in good faith. We do not require legal threats to remove agency information when an agency requests it.
We are careful to use the correct statutory framework for each jurisdiction. Federal Freedom of Information Act (FOIA, 5 U.S.C. 552) applies to federal agencies. State public-records laws (Florida Chapter 119, Texas Public Information Act, California Public Records Act, and equivalents in every state) apply to state, county, and municipal agencies. We do not refer to state-level requests as "FOIA" requests in generated correspondence or published copy where it would mislead readers about the applicable statute.
Stale or wrong contact information could cause a user to miss a statutory deadline or pay a fee they could have avoided. We mitigate this by:
last verified date prominently on every pageReport this is wrong link on every page that triggers a re-verification ticketfoia.direct is an independent commercial product. We are not affiliated with, sponsored by, or operating under the editorial direction of any government agency, news organization, journalism nonprofit, or political organization. We have no financial relationship with the Reporters Committee for Freedom of the Press, MuckRock, NICAR, IRE, or any government body.
We do partner with journalists and newsrooms as customers and we publish their work where relevant, but those relationships do not influence what we report about the agencies they cover.