Freedom of Press Found. v. DOJ (S.D.N.Y.) -- finding that: (1) FBI performed adequate search for records relating to surveillance of news media and that it properly withheld records pursuant to Exemptions 1, 3, and 7(E); and (2) DOJ’s Criminal Division improperly relied on Exemption 5’s deliberative process privilege to withhold training slide and official instruction form.
Long v. ICE (N.D.N.Y.) -- ruling that ICE failed to establish that it performed adequate search for certain records pertaining to agency’s use of detainers and notices of release, and that it failed to establish that search for requested information would require creating new records or would be unduly burdensome.
Summaries of all published opinions issued since April 2015 are available here.