The latest audit by The  National Security Archive shows no federal agencies that are involved in national security have updated their Freedom of Information Act guidelines  in recent months — despite a now four-year-old mandate from the Obama administration to do so. 

Four agencies have made updates since the March 2009 request from Attorney General Eric Holder that was preceded by a request from President Obama. (See chart below). 

But nine other national security related agencies have made no updates since before the administration’s new guidelines — one hasn’t made changes since1987 — despite not only the Obama-Holder mandate, but also three major changes in FOIA laws since 1996. 

Those are the same numbers that were reported by The National Security Archive in December; this week’s audit update includes changes made since the December news release. Only two additional federal agencies have made changes since December. 

President Obama in  an executive order on Jan. 21, 2009 ordered “presumption in favor of disclosure” and asked agencies to “harness new technologies to put information about their operations and decisions online and readily available to the public.” The attorney general followed up with detailed guidelines two months later.