FOI Exemptions

DYRS 10/2/07

DYRS statutory prohibition, affirmed because requested records are in the spirit of the statutory prohibition and also fall within the privacy exemption.

OPC 2/20/07

OPC deliberative process and investigatory techniques, affirmed

WASA 5/17/07

WASA unreasonable burden and deliberative process, affirmed in part as to unreasonable burden of initial request, remanded to agency for reconsideration of each document on Vaughn index as exempt under deliberative process

WASA 12/07/06

WASA deliberative process, remanded for agency to reexamine appropriateness of exemption for certain records, other records appropriately withheld, other records will be provided

Open Government Office Establishment Act of 2010 (6/3/2010 Draft)

Draft of D.C. Open Government Office Establishment Act of 2010 immediately prior to public hearing before the D.C. Council's Government Operations Committee to be held June 7, 2010.

McMillan Community Activists File FOIA Suit

The McMillan Park Committee, a community nonprofit composed of area civic associations and Advisory Neighborhood Commissions, filed a lawsuit March 22 under the D.C. Freedom of Information Act to contest the withholding of records related to the redevelopment of the old McMillan Reservoir sand filtration site.

The Committee requested 43 records in February 2009; several hundred pages of the requested documents were released but the deputy mayor's office said that the others it considered subject to the deliberative process exemption.  The McMillan Park Committee opposes the redevelopment, and argues that the process for selecting a developer was not transparent.  The group wants to know where the project stands and how much public money will be involved.  Washington Business Journal (subscription) Read more »

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