On September 15, 2022, OFCCP
announced that it is extending the September 19, 2022
deadline for contractors to object to Type 2 EEO-1 Reports in
response to the Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) request by the
Center for Investigative Reporting (CIR). OFCCP extended
the deadline to October 19, 2022 to allow
contractors more time “to verify whether they are included in
the universe” of 2016 to 2020 Type 2 EEO-1 Reports requested
by CIR. OFCCP also said that it will contact contractors it
believes are covered by the FOIA request, using contractors'
email addresses from the OFCCP Contractor Portal and EEO-1
Reports.
Background
In 2019, Will Evans, an investigative reporter at CIR, sent
OFCCP a FOIA request for EEO-1 Reports of federal contractors and
first-tier subcontractors. The FOIA request was later amended
in June 2022 to request disclosure of Type 2 EEO-1 Reports for
reporting years 2016 through 2020 indicating that the submitter was
a federal contractor. The
