{"data":{"id":"us/5-cfr-1820.1","jurisdiction":"us","citation":"5 CFR 1820.1","heading":"General provisions.","body":"This part contains rules and procedures followed by the U.S. Office of Special Counsel (OSC) in processing requests for records under the Freedom of Information Act (FOIA), codified at 5 U.S.C. 552. These rules and procedures should be read together with the FOIA and the FOIA page of OSC's website (https://osc.gov/FOIA), which set forth additional information about access to agency records and information routinely provided to the public as part of a regular OSC activity. For example, forms, press releases, records published on OSC's website, or public lists maintained at OSC headquarter offices pursuant to 5 U.S.C. 1219, may be requested and provided to the public without following this part. This part also addresses responses to demands by a court or other authority to an OSC employee or former employee for production of official records or testimony in legal proceedings.","path":["Title 5—Administrative Personnel","CHAPTER VIII—OFFICE OF SPECIAL COUNSEL","PART 1820—FREEDOM OF INFORMATION ACT REQUESTS; PRODUCTION OF RECORDS OR TESTIMONY"],"source_url":"https://www.ecfr.gov/api/versioner/v1/full/2026-08-25/title-5.xml","current_through":"2026-08-25","vintage":"","retrieved_at":"2026-08-27T02:23:53Z","sha256":"af8004c01299b564dd2e2b09a1a15ce968f67581f0a0202d514c01a1fbabd114","source_id":"us-cfr","stale":true,"prev":"us/5-cfr-1811.1","next":"us/5-cfr-1820.2"},"notice":"GroundRules: Original legal text. Not legal advice."}