---
kind: "unit"
title: "6"
title_heading: "Domestic Security"
key: "chI/part5/subpartA"
level: "subpart"
label: "Subpart A"
heading: "Procedures for Disclosure of Records Under the Freedom of Information Act"
release: "ecfr-current"
date: "2026-08-27"
url: "https://uscodex.org/cfr/6/chI-part5-subpartA"
sections_count: 13
---

# Subpart A — Procedures for Disclosure of Records Under the Freedom of Information Act

Title 6 C.F.R. — Domestic Security › Chapter I — Department of Homeland Security, Office of the Secretary › Part 5 — Disclosure of Records and Information

## Sections

- [§5.1. General provisions.](/cfr/6/5.1.md)
- [§5.2. Proactive disclosure of DHS records.](/cfr/6/5.2.md)
- [§5.3. Requirements for making requests.](/cfr/6/5.3.md)
- [§5.4. Responsibility for responding to requests.](/cfr/6/5.4.md)
- [§5.5. Timing of responses to requests.](/cfr/6/5.5.md)
- [§5.6. Responses to requests.](/cfr/6/5.6.md)
- [§5.7. Confidential commercial information.](/cfr/6/5.7.md)
- [§5.8. Administrative appeals.](/cfr/6/5.8.md)
- [§5.9. Preservation of records.](/cfr/6/5.9.md)
- [§5.10. FOIA requests for information contained in a Privacy Act system of records.](/cfr/6/5.10.md)
- [§5.11. Fees.](/cfr/6/5.11.md)
- [§5.12. Confidential commercial information; CBP procedures.](/cfr/6/5.12.md)
- [§5.13. Other rights and services.](/cfr/6/5.13.md)