This United States Army manual, Army Regulation AR 25-55 The Department of the Army Freedom of Information Act Program October 2020, provides policies and procedures for the Department of the Army (DA) implementation of the Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) in accordance with the Department of Defense (DOD) FOIA Program pursuant to DODM 5400.07 and implements 32 Code of Federal Regulation (CFR) Part 286. This Army regulation promotes uniformity in the DA FOIA Program and implements provisions for the access and release of information from all Army recordkeeping systems, manual, and automated, in accordance with the Army information technology policy (see AR 25 - 1).
This regulation contains the rules that govern the request for information from DA in accordance with the FOIA, Title 5, United States Code, Section 552 (5 USC 552) and explains how those requests will be processed.
This regulation applies to the Regular Army, Army National Guard/Army National Guard of the United States, U.S. Army Reserve, unless otherwise stated. It also applies to the Army and Air Force Exchange Service.