Heidi M Przybyla

USA TODAY

WASHINGTON — The State Department has agreed to produce by mid-October all of Hillary Clinton's planning schedules during her tenure as U.S. secretary of State.

The decision, first reported by the Associated Press, is a reversal after a U.S. government lawyers' warning last week that hundreds of pages would not be released until after the presidential election in December. The agency now plans to complete processing the documents, with about 2,700 remaining, by Oct. 17, according to State Department spokesman John Kirby.

The documents are being released in response to a Freedom of Information Act request by the AP. The news organization "requested a prioritizing of these records over other records in their other FOIA requests at issue in this case," Kirby said in a statement. "The Department had no objection to shifting its resources as long as its overall processing burden was not increased."

The detailed schedules will show Clinton's daily routine during her four-year service, between 2009 and 2013, as secretary of State. Interest in the schedules has increased amid news reports questioning whether foreign donors to the family's charity, the Clinton Foundation, may have gained preferential access to the nation's top diplomat.

The department has so far released about half of her more complete daily schedules.

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