This part contains rules and procedures followed by the U.S. Office of Special Counsel (OSC) in processing requests for records under the Freedom of Information Act (FOIA), codified at 5 U.S.C. § 552. These rules and procedures should be read together with the FOIA and the FOIA page of OSC’s website (https://osc.gov/FOIA), which set forth additional information about access to agency records and information routinely provided to the public as part of a regular OSC activity. For example, forms, press releases, records published on OSC’s website, or public lists maintained at OSC headquarter offices pursuant to 5 U.S.C. § 1219, may be requested and provided to the public without following this part. This part also addresses responses to demands by a court or other authority to an OSC employee or former employee for production of official records or testimony in legal proceedings.