FOIA Electronic Reading Room

FHFA-OIG’s Electronic Reading Room contains digital copies of FHFA-OIG records in which you may be interested. By downloading records from this website, you can avoid the potential delay and/or expense associated with submitting a formal request for these records pursuant to the Freedom of Information Act (FOIA), 5 U.S.C. § 552. Of course, even though certain records are available here, you may still submit a FOIA request to FHFA-OIG in accordance with applicable law and the instructions on the main FHFA-OIG FOIA page. However, if your FOIA request seeks records included in this Electronic Reading Room, FHFA-OIG reserves the right to respond to your request – at least to the extent that it seeks those records – by referring you to the Electronic Reading Room in order to obtain them.

This Electronic Reading Room conforms to the statutory requirement that agencies make certain records available "for public inspection in an electronic format."  To this end, the Electronic Reading Room contains the following records created by FHFA-OIG on or after November 1, 1996:

• Final opinions or orders issued in adjudication;
• Statements of Agency policy and interpretation that are not published in the Federal Register;
• Administrative staff manuals and instructions to staff that affect a member of the public, and are not exempt from disclosure under FOIA; and
• Copies of records released under FOIA that FHFA-OIG determines have become or are likely to become the subject of subsequent requests for substantially similar records.