National Labor Relations Board: Freedom of Information Act Manual

This NLRB FOIA manual has been prepared, as updated, by the General Counsel of the NLRB to furnish guidance to Agency employees in making determinations concerning the public release of Agency records under the Freedom of Information Act ("FOIA"), as amended,1 and in litigating FOIA-based lawsuits. The Manual provides a basic review of the FOIA and its exemptions, as well as operational guidance on how to process a FOIA request-including threshold procedural issues, case assignment, creatio...