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Freedom of Information Act: Agency Reading Rooms

GGD-89-84BR Published: May 31, 1989. Publicly Released: Jul 06, 1989.
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Pursuant to a congressional request, GAO determined: (1) whether agencies maintained reading rooms to make Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) materials available for public inspection and copying; (2) how agencies notified the public of the existence of reading rooms; and (3) whether reading rooms contained material other than required FOIA documents.

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