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FISCAL YEAR 2013 REPORT OF THE EQUAL EMPLOYMENT OPPORTUNITY COMMISSION ON ITS ADMINISTRATION OF THE FREEDOM OF INFORMATION ACT (FOIA), 5 U.S.C. § 552
The majority of fiscal year 2013 FOIA requests received by the Commission were for materials contained in the Commission's investigative case files that involved charges of discrimination filed pursuant to Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of
1964, 42 U.S.C. §§ 2000e, et. seq. (Title VII), the Age Discrimination in Employment Act, 29 U.S.C. §§ 621-633 (ADEA), the Americans with Disabilities Act, 42 U.S.C. §§ 12101-213 (ADA), the Equal Pay Act, 29 U.S.C. § 206(d) (EPA), and Title II of
the Genetic Information Nondiscrimination Act (GINA), 42 U.S.C. § 2000ff, et seq. Sections 706(b) and 709(e) of Title VII, 42 U.S.C. §§ 2000e-5(b) and 8(e), §107 of the ADA, 42 U.S.C. § 12117, and § 207(a)(1) of GINA, 42 U.S.C. § 2000ff-6 prohibit
Commission employees from making Title VII, ADA or GINA charges, conciliation materials, case file information and required reports public. In certain instances, parties to the charge are entitled access to the disclosable portions of the charge
file. Examples of non-disclosable material in charge files are discussed in detail in section XII of this report.
Component - for agencies that process requests on a decentralized basis, a "component" is an entity, also sometimes referred to as an Office, Division, Bureau, Center, or Directorate, within the agency that processes FOIA
Consultation - the procedure whereby the agency responding to a FOIA request first forwards a record to another agency for its review because that other agency has an interest in the document. Once the agency in receipt of the
FOIA Request - a FOIA request is generally a request to a federal agency for access to records concerning another person (i.e., a "third-party" request), or concerning an organization, or a particular topic of interest. FOIA
Additionally, a FOIA request includes records referred to the agency for processing and direct response to the requester. It does not, however, include records for which the agency has received a consultation from another agency. (Consultations
are reported separately in Section XII of this Report.)
Full Denial - an agency decision not to release any records in response to a FOIA request because the records are exempt in their entireties under one or more of the FOIA exemptions, or because of a procedural reason, such as
Multi-Track Processing - a system in which simple requests requiring relatively minimal review are placed in one processing track and more voluminous and complex requests are placed in one or more other tracks. Requests granted
expedited processing are placed in yet another track. Requests in each track are processed on a first in/first out basis. Expedited Processing - an agency will process a FOIA request on an expedited basis when a requester satisfies the requirements for expedited processing as set forth in the statute and in agency regulations.
Partial Grant/Partial Denial - in response to a FOIA request, an agency decision to disclose portions of the records and to withhold other portions that are exempt under the FOIA, or to otherwise deny a portion of the request
Section 83 - refers to Section 83 of the EEOC Compliance Manual Volume I which provides for access to relevant case files by charging parties, aggrieved persons on whose behalf a charge has been filed, and entities against whom
charges have been filed. 29 C.F.R. § 1610.17(d).
Exemption 3 - information that is prohibited from disclosure by another federal law: (A) any Title VII , ADA or GINA charge file information requested by anyone other than the Charging Party or the Respondent to the charge, such
as the charge file or information concerning the existence of charge files, (B) Title VII, ADA or GINA information requested by the Charge Party or the Respondent after the time limit for filing a lawsuit has expired and no lawsuit has been filed,
(C) reference to other Title VII, ADA or GINA charges in the charge file, (D) EEO reports required to be filed under Title VII, if requester has not filed suit against the respondent, or (E) information submitted by unsuccessful bidders for
Exemption 7 - records or information compiled for law enforcement purposes, to the extent that the production of those records (A) could reasonably be expected to interfere with enforcement proceedings, (B) would deprive a
Information pertaining to charges of unlawful employment discrimination practices; information obtained by the EEOC in the investigation of charges of unlawful employment practices including conciliation materials; and specific reports and
information required to be furnished to the EEOC
Information pertaining to charges of unlawful employment practices under the ADA, information obtained by the EEOC in the investigation of charges of unlawful employment practices including conciliation material; and specific reports and
information required to be furnished to the EEOC.
42 U.S.C.§ 2000ff-6
Information pertaining to charges of unlawful employment practices under GINA; information obtained by the EEOC in the investigation of charges of unlawful employment practices including conciliation materials; and specific reports and
Access was provided to records under separate statute
The FOIA Tracking System currently used by EEOC does not have the capability to track complex and simple requests separately. All non-expedited requests are shown on chart VII.B., simple requests.
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The Los Angeles Office did not have any pending FOIA request at the end of the fiscal year. The Washington Field Office had only eight oldest requests ending. The second oldest request for the Memphis District Office was tolled for four days. The
seventh oldest request for OLC was tolled for two days, and the tenth oldest was tolled for six days.
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$66,180.91
$72,314.99
$99,625.40
$147,215.79
$148,815.79
$165,168.21
$283,807.47
$641,174.35
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$251,426.68
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$89,104.14
$122,816.11
$48,502.85
$91,094.18
$2,587,130.90
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$5,874.86
$10,777.70
EEOC had no consultations with other agencies or components during Fiscal Year 2013.