{"data":{"id":"us/34-cfr-5.12","jurisdiction":"us","citation":"34 CFR 5.12","heading":"Creation of agency records not required.","body":"In response to a FOIA request, the Department produces only those agency records that are not already publicly available and that are in existence at the time it receives a request. The Department does not create new agency records in response to a FOIA request by, for example, extrapolating information from existing agency records, reformatting available information, preparing new electronic programs or databases, or creating data through calculations of ratios, proportions, percentages, trends, frequency distributions, correlations, or comparisons.","path":["Title 34—Education","Subtitle A—Office of the Secretary, Department of Education","PART 5—AVAILABILITY OF INFORMATION TO THE PUBLIC","Subpart B—Agency Records Available to the Public"],"source_url":"https://www.ecfr.gov/api/versioner/v1/full/2026-08-25/title-34.xml","current_through":"2026-08-25","vintage":"","retrieved_at":"2026-08-27T02:25:40Z","sha256":"bd3b82939d6ee0fffa82d16f30e8baa87ee8b3cfadb340c9436814f22c0956b2","source_id":"us-cfr","stale":true,"prev":"us/34-cfr-5.11","next":"us/34-cfr-5.13"},"notice":"GroundRules: Original legal text. Not legal advice."}