FOIA Advisor

Court opinion issued Dec. 28, 2023

Court Opinions (2015-2023)Allan BlutsteinComment

Nat'l Press Club Journalism Inst. v. USCIS (D.D.C.) -- ruling that: (1) both USCIS and ICE conducted adequate searches for records concerning a Mexican journalist and his son, but not with respect to records of “mechanisms used to limit or block phone calls” at ICE’s El Paso facilities”; (2) ICE’s Vaughn Index and declarations were inadequate to justify its withholdings pursuant to Exemption 5 (deliberative process and attorney-client privileges) and Exemptions 6 and 7(C); and (3) ICE was entitled to reprocess documents that it inadvertently disclosed to plaintiff, but declining to limit plaintiff’s use of inadvertently disclosed documents because ICE had “not moved for any relief whatsoever on this front.”

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