{"content":[{"text":"6. OIP has directed agencies to “take steps to ensure that all of their FOIA professionals attend \n substantive FOIA training at least once throughout the year.” If your response to the previous \n question is that less than 80% of your FOIA professionals attended training, please explain your \n agency’s plan to ensure that all FOIA professionals receive or attend substantive FOIA training \n during the next reporting year.","bbox":{"left":0.117642,"top":0.08914,"width":0.724254,"height":0.07791000000000001}},{"text":"Answer: Not applicable. NEH expects that 100 percent of its FOIA professionals will \n attend substantive FOIA training before the end of the reporting period.","bbox":{"left":0.117647,"top":0.179642,"width":0.7439089999999999,"height":0.033435999999999994}},{"text":"C. Outreach","bbox":{"left":0.117647,"top":0.224784,"width":0.10450999999999999,"height":0.01836199999999999}},{"text":"7. Did your FOIA professionals engage in any outreach or dialogue with the requester community or \n open government groups regarding your administration of the FOIA? Please describe any such \n outreach or dialogue, and, if applicable, any specific examples of how this dialogue has led to \n improvements in your agency’s FOIA administration.","bbox":{"left":0.117647,"top":0.254812,"width":0.7542769999999999,"height":0.06290800000000002}},{"text":"Answer: NEH did not engage in any outreach or dialogue with the requestor \n community or open government groups regarding its administration of the FOIA.","bbox":{"left":0.117647,"top":0.330221,"width":0.716083,"height":0.03343600000000002}},{"text":"D. Other Initiatives","bbox":{"left":0.117647,"top":0.375443,"width":0.16986600000000002,"height":0.01836199999999999}},{"text":"8. Describe any efforts your agency has undertaken to inform non-FOIA professionals of their \n obligations under the FOIA.","bbox":{"left":0.117647,"top":0.405392,"width":0.707123,"height":0.03276000000000001}},{"text":"Answer: During the reporting period, NEH held a mandatory “FOIA Refresher \n Training” for agency personnel with FOIA responsibilities. This one-hour, in-person \n training reviewed NEH’s FOIA policies and procedures and reinforced the agency’s \n commitment to responding accurately and promptly to all FOIA requests.","bbox":{"left":0.117647,"top":0.450733,"width":0.745476,"height":0.063583}},{"text":"Also during the reporting period, NEH’s primary FOIA professional conducted one-on- \n one training verbally and in writing, as needed, to remind agency staff of their FOIA \n responsibilities and to answer specific FOIA-related questions.","bbox":{"left":0.117647,"top":0.526022,"width":0.763566,"height":0.04851000000000005}},{"text":"In addition, throughout the year NEH advises all staff members—including non-FOIA \n professionals—of the agency’s FOIA obligations, by (a) repeatedly emphasizing, in both \n written and oral communications, that FOIA is everyone’s responsibility; and (b) \n posting information about FOIA on the agency’s intranet site.","bbox":{"left":0.11763,"top":0.586318,"width":0.76459,"height":0.063504}},{"text":"9. Optional – If there are any other initiatives undertaken by your agency to ensure that the \n presumption of openness is being applied, please describe them here.","bbox":{"left":0.11763,"top":0.661488,"width":0.6935669999999999,"height":0.03276000000000001}},{"text":"Answer: NEH is committed to applying the presumption of openness when it makes \n decisions about releasing agency records under the FOIA. For example, even when an \n agency record falls within one of the nine FOIA exemptions, NEH will only withhold \n the record if it is reasonably foreseeable that the disclosure would harm an interest \n protected by one of the exemptions. Also, NEH will segregate and release information \n not protected by one of the exemptions when a record contains both protected and \n unprotected information.","bbox":{"left":0.11763,"top":0.70675,"width":0.7569170000000001,"height":0.10872599999999999}},{"text":"2","bbox":{"left":0.495196,"top":0.922631,"width":0.00959099999999996,"height":0.01768599999999998}}],"images_bbox":[],"images_bbox_not_text_overlap":[]}