For Caribbean District requests, your requests should be submitted via email: cesaa-foia@usace.army.mil or mailed to the following address:
Attention - FOIA Officer
Fund A. Ramos Annex Bldg. Ste 202
383 Franklin D. Roosevelt Ave, San Juan, PR 00918
Requests must be in writing and should include the notation "Freedom of Information Act Request". No special form is required for a FOIA request, but a Sample request is provided in the Defense Department FOIA Handbook. Electronic requests are permitted unless a signature is required, such as a request for records subject to the Privacy Act. Electronic requests should include the notation "Freedom of Information Act Request" in the subject.
Requests must state a willingness to pay the applicable fees and must describe the documents requested in sufficient detail to allow the FOIA Office to locate them with a reasonable amount of effort. In making a request you should be as specific as possible with regard to names, titles, dates, places, events, subjects, recipients, type of document, the offices likely to maintain the documents, etc.
A FOIA request can be made for any agency document. However, this does not mean, that all documents requested will be disclosed. There are statutory exemptions that authorize the withholding of information of a sensitive nature. Additionally, you should be aware that the FOIA does not require FOIA Offices to do research for you, to analyze data, to answer written questions, or to create records in order to respond to a request.
When our District FOIA Office receives your FOIA request, we will ordinarily send you an acknowledgment of the request. If you do not provide the necessary information, the Office will advise you of what additional information is required before further processing your request.
In order to protect your privacy as well as the privacy of others, whenever you request information about yourself you will be asked to provide either a notarized statement or a statement signed under penalty of perjury stating that you are the person that you say you are.