Jewell v. DHS (W.D. Wis.) -- holding that: (1) U.S. Immigration & Customs Enforcement and DOJ’s Criminal Division performed adequate searches for records concerning plaintiff’s criminal conviction for distributing child pornography; and (2) DOJ properly relied on Exemptions 6 and 7(C) to withhold records about third parties, as well as Exemption 7(F) to redact plaintiff’s name because disclosure could incite violence from other prisoners; and (3) rejecting DOJ’s supplemental use of Exemption 7(E) for the same withheld records, noting its skepticism that “criminals are actually reviewing documents from these types of investigations and gleaning insight on how to avoid detection.”
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