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BOP Admits to Email Destruction Policy; Discovery of Policy Compliance with FRA Allowed

Loaded on Aug. 25, 2016

Filed under: Disclosure of Records, Discovery, Public Records, Freedom of Information Act. Location: Oregon.

A federal court in Oregon held that a party to a Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) action was entitled to discovery regarding the record retention/destruction policy of the federal Bureau of Prisons (BOP).

In November 2008, Stephen Raher submitted a FOIA request to the BOP, seeking records related "to the ...

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