§ 171.3 Records available on the Department's website.

(a) Records that are required by the FOIA to be made available for public inspection in an electronic format under 5 U.S.C. 552(a)(2) also are available on the Department's public website. Included on the Department's FOIA home page, www.foia.state.gov, are links to other sites where Department information may be available and to the Department's records disposition schedules. Also available on the FOIA website are certain records released by the Department pursuant to requests under the FOIA and compilations of records reviewed and released in certain special projects. Links to the Department's Privacy Act System of Records Notices are available at www.state.gov/privacy. In addition, see 22 CFR part 173 regarding release within the United States of public diplomacy program material generated pursuant to the U.S. Information and Educational Exchange Act of 1948, as amended (22 U.S.C. 1431, et seq., also referred to as the Smith-Mundt Act). (b) The Department's Office of Inspector General (OIG) is responsible for determining which of its records are required to be made publicly available on its website at www.stateoig.gov. OIG will ensure that its website of posted records and indices is reviewed and updated on an ongoing basis.