FOIA analyst
FOIA specialist, government information specialist, paralegal
Does the line-by-line review of responsive records and decides each proposed redaction.
Sees
- Requests and review sets assigned to them or their team
- Records with proposed redactions, the reason for each and the suggested exemption
- Duplicate groups and email threads for their records
- Comments returned by the second-level reviewer
Does
- Accepts, rejects or changes each proposed redaction and applies the exemption
- Adds redactions the engine did not propose, with a justification
- Searches the review set for a name, number or phrase and redacts every occurrence after checking them
- Splits duplicate groups or threads that should be reviewed separately
- Resolves files that could not be processed, or marks them for follow-up
- Sends a completed set to second-level review
Cannot
- Approve their own work for release
- See requests that are not assigned to them or their team
- Change exemption lists, custom terms or user roles