Federal agency FOIA guide · Department of Homeland Security
United States Secret Service (USSS)
For Secret Service agency records such as policies, administrative records, financial-crime records, historical protective records, and other USSS records. Some protective, privacy, and law-enforcement information can be withheld.
Common request topics
secret servicepresidentprotectionprotectivecounterfeitfinancial crimeswhite housebody camera
Where to submit
Mail / email details in FOIAFiler
Email: foia@usss.dhs.gov
Mail:
Freedom of Information Act and Privacy Act Program
U.S. Secret Service
Communications Center
245 Murray Lane SW, Building T-5
Washington, DC 20223
Related request recipes
Secret Service records
Secret Service protection, privacy, and investigative records can implicate exemptions. Ask for identifiable administrative or historical records rather than operational security details.
Agency FOIA logs
FOIA logs are useful for discovering records other people have already requested and for finding repeatable request language.
How to make the request easier to process
- Describe the records, not just the question you want answered.
- Use a specific date range when possible.
- Name the office, event, case number, contract number, facility, or other locator if known.
- List useful record types such as emails, reports, memoranda, photographs, logs, contracts, or policy documents.
- For records about yourself, follow the agency’s identity-verification and Privacy Act instructions.
- Ask for reasonably segregable non-exempt portions if responsive records contain exempt material.
Build it
One agency or several?
If this agency is clearly the custodian, build one request. If the records may be split among several components, Request Bundles can generate a separate letter for each selected agency while keeping the core description consistent.