# Federal Agencies Modernize FOIA with AI

Federal agencies received about 1.7 million FOIA requests in FY2025, while the U.S. Department of Justice’s backlog rose to 29,309. The recommended approach is to apply AI to verifiable, bounded tasks with human oversight, while preparing intake and disclosure processes for potentially higher request volumes and incorporating legal, security, privacy, and records-management controls into deployments. No specific solicitation, award, or funding opportunity is identified, but these workload pressures and safeguards are relevant to agency FOIA modernization planning and contractor solution design.

- Agencies and contractors developing FOIA tools should design for human review, auditable task boundaries, and controls for legal, security, privacy, and records-management needs.
- Procurement teams can use the reported request volume and DOJ backlog as context when assessing capacity needs for intake, processing, and disclosure workflows.
- Casepoint and other providers of relevant solutions may find opportunities to align offerings with these operational priorities; the signal does not identify a particular procurement or funding source.

**Jurisdictions:** federal
**Industries:** Information Technology
**Topics:** Artificial Intelligence, Regulatory Compliance
**Published:** November 13, 2026

### Government Entities
- U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ)
- U.S. federal agencies

### Vendors
- Casepoint ()

### Sources
- [AI is changing both sides of FOIA. Here’s how agencies should prepare.  - Nextgov/FCW](https://www.nextgov.com/ideas/2026/11/ai-changing-both-sides-foia-heres-how-agencies-should-prepare/417215) - Nextgov/FCW