Executive Order 13392

On December 14, 2005, President George W. Bush issued Executive Order 13392, "Improving Agency Disclosure of Information." In the order, the President directed agencies to ensure citizen-centered and results-oriented FOIA operations. The executive order requires the head of each agency to &mdash;


 * designate a Chief FOIA Officer at the Assistant Secretary level or equivalent;
 * establish agency FOIA Service Centers to enable a FOIA requester to seek information concerning the status of a FOIA request and appropriate information about the agency's FOIA response;
 * designate one or more FOIA Public Liaisons (FOIA Public Liaisons will serve as supervisory officials to whom a FOIA requester can raise concerns about the service the FOIA requester has received from the FOIA Service Center, following an initial response from the Center staff);
 * conduct a review of the agency's FOIA operations and draft a plan for improvement with concrete milestones for fiscal year (FY) 2006 and FY 2007; and
 * include, in its annual FOIA report to the Department of Justice for FY 2006 and FY 2007, information on the agency's performance in meeting the milestones of its FOIA improvement plan.