Government Information Specialist (FOIA)

Job Title

FOIA And Privacy Act Specialist

Major Duties and Responsibilities

Technical Analysis and Review

Responds to Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) and Privacy Act requests within mandated statutory timeframes individually or with direction from higher-level employees or management.

Utilizes a variety of legal and technical sources in formulating responses.

Provides information and guidance to assigned offices as needed.

Determines appropriate record-holding offices that may have records related to FOIA requests and communicates objectives to the appropriate office personnel.

Obtains records, technical responses, and explanations from record-holding offices and Subject Matter Experts.

Calculates appropriate projected response date to requests.

Determines the applicability of the FOIA and Privacy Act to the request and determines if records may be released and is responsible for redacting i...