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See the list of federal agencies for details about how to make a request to each agency and any specific requirements for seeking certain records. A FOIA request can be made for any agency record. You can also specify the format in which you wish to receive the records for example, printed or electronic form.

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Submit Request. Check Status of Request. It is required to properly view and use this site. Toggle navigation Secondary menu Go! View Participating Agencies. NOTE: Information you can search varies by agency. Learn more about the agencies' availability dates. Quick Search Go! I bundled this page as part of the app for two reasons.

First, I needed a fast, responsive, touch-friendly home screen that stretched to fit the entire on-screen real estate. Second, I wanted to limit the app to the functionality available to guest users only. Bundling a copy of the homepage allowed me to remove the functionality related to registered users.

Figure 6 depicts the homepage of the FOIAonline site. The next challenge I ran into was enabling some sort of push notification capability that notifies users of updates to an FOIA response in which they were interested. This code creates a dependence on the underlying Web site. In the absence of an API, the WebView control offers the only option to extend the functionality offered by the Web site.

Upon successfully completing this, the custom script is executed within the loaded HTML page. Note that within the script snippet, passed in as an argument, I include a call to method window. Figure 8 depicts how this event is handled by the app. Once the record is successfully inserted, I also register the channel and tracking numbers with the notification hub.

The newly inserted record is then picked up by a custom script fired periodically by the WAMS scheduler. If there are any updates, it sends out notifications using the notification hub. The benefit of using the notification hub is it scales easily to a large number of recipients without the need for re-architecting the MyFOIA app.

Also, the notifications are based on tags. You can register one or more tags. The notification hub then uses tags to route the notifications. The final challenge was related to adding social media capabilities to the app. The challenge in implementing such a capability is that users would be selecting text within the hosted HTML page. How does the app capture the selected text? Fortunately, as shown in Figure 9 , the WebView control offers a method called captureSelectedContentToDataPackageAsync that captures the selected text and passes it to the loadTwitter method.