Though governed by an entirely different set of rules and requirements as civil litigation e-discovery, FOIA requests involve many of the same requirements, processes and challenges. However, many government agencies lag well behind their private sector counterparts when it comes to adopting more efficient processes and more advanced technologies for getting to relevant data.

Few could have imagined FOIA’s impact and many are struggling just to keep up with the constant barrage of FOIA requests, with some facing huge backlogs still to work through.

This white paper explores the FOIA problem and what government agencies can do to get ahead of a challenge that only figures to get worse in the years ahead.