President Obama issued new orders to make the federal government more responsive to the Freedom of Information Act after signing the FOIA Improvement Act of 2016 on Thursday.

The law created a new council comprising agencies’ chief FOIA officers. Obama scheduled its first meeting for July 22 and is asking the new body to “identify and address the biggest difficulties that exist in administering FOIA across government.”

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