Software company Privasoft has won a contract from the Department of Justice’s Office of Information Policy (OIP) to provide Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) processing software, according to a company press release.
Under the contract, OIP will use Privasoft’s AccessPro Suite to “facilitate the expedient processing of FOIA requests,” says Privasoft. The contract specifies an initial 40 users to be placed on a centralized automated FOIA response system.
The software, says Privasoft, “is a purpose-built software solution designed to capture, analyze, track, process and report on case work related to managing requests for information under such laws as FOIA.”
According to the company’s Web site, it provides software to several other federal agencies, including the Federal Labor Relations Authority, Minerals Management Service, the Federal Reserve Board and several divisions of the Agriculture Department.
Main Justice previously wrote about the Justice Department working with the Office of Government Information Services in its training of federal workers on how to handle FOIA requests. The office is within the National Archives and Records Administration.
