Skip navigation

Search

263 results
Worth Rises: Paying for Jail - How County Jails Extract Wealth from New York Communities, 2019 PAYING FOR JAIL How County Jails Extract Wealth from New York Communities DE C EMBE R 2 01 9 C O- PUBL IS H E D BY: WO RTH RISES Worth Rises is a …
Article • September 8, 2019 • from PLN September, 2019
HRDC Files FOIL Petition Against New York State Attorney General’s Office by On March 8, 2019, the Human Rights Defense Center, PLN’s parent nonprofit organization, filed suit in the Supreme Court for Albany County, New York against the State Attorney General’s Office for failure to comply with a Freedom of …
Filing • June 7, 2019
HRDC v. BOP, D.C., Settlement, FOIA Request, 2019 Case 1:18-cv-01064-JEB Document 14-1 Filed 06/07/19 Page 1 of 3 Case 1:18-cv-01064-JEB Document 14-1 Filed 06/07/19 Page 2 of 3 Case 1:18-cv-01064-JEB Document 14-1 Filed 06/07/19 Page 3 of 3
Filing • June 7, 2019
HRDC v. BOP, D.C., Dismissal, FOIA Request, 2018 Case 1:18-cv-01064-JEB Document 14 Filed 06/07/19 Page 1 of 1 IN THE UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT FOR THE DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA ____________________________________ ) HUMAN RIGHTS DEFENSE CENTER, ) ) Plaintiff ) ) Civil Action No. 18-1064 (JEB) v. ) (ECF) ) BUREAU …
Article • April 22, 2019
Third Circuit Reverses Federal Prisoner’s FOIA Request Denials by Mark Wilson by Mark Wilson The United States Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit reversed the dismissal of a federal prisoner’s Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) requests. Federal prisoner James Biear made FOIA requests of the Criminal Division of the …
Article • September 4, 2018 • from PLN September, 2018
Privacy Interests Outweigh Public Interest in Disclosure of AUSA Termination Letter by David Reutter by David Reutter The District of Columbia Court of Appeals held that privacy interests in not disclosing a 20-year-old proposed termination letter for a previous Assistant U.S. Attorney (AUSA) outweighed the pubic interest under exemption 5 …
Southern Poverty Law Center v. Homeland Security, et al., complaint for injunctive relief re ICE, 2018 Case 1:18-cv-01725 Document 1 Filed 07/24/18 Page 1 of 8 IN THE UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT FOR THE DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA SOUTHERN POVERTY LAW CENTER Civil Action No. 1:18-cv-01725 Plaintiff, JURY DEMANDED V. UNITED …
Brief • June 7, 2018
Mora-Villalpando v. U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement, U.S. Customs and Border Protection et al., WA, Amended Complaint, Failure to Comply with FOIA Request, 2018 1 2 3 4 5 UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT FOR THE WESTERN DISTRICT OF WASHINGTON AT SEATTLE 6 7 8 Maria Mora-Villalpando, No. 2:18-cv-655 9 Plaintiff, …
Filing • May 4, 2018
HRDC v. BOP, D.C., Complaint, FOIA Request, 2018 Case 1:18-cv-01064-JEB Document 1 Filed 05/04/18 Page 1 of 9 U N I T E D S TAT E S D I S C T R I C T C O U RT F O R T H E D I S …
Publication • March 21, 2018
Response Letter to FOIA Request, Department of Defense, 2018
Article • February 8, 2018
Public Records in Private Accounts Subject to PRA Disclosure by David Reutter The Vermont Supreme Court held that “public records” under the Public Records Act (PRA) include any documents generated in the course of public agency business, even if the record is stored in a private account. The court held …
Article • February 8, 2018
FOIL Exemption Applies to Civil and Criminal Law Enforcement by David Reutter by David Reutters A New York appellate court held that the New York State Education Department correctly redacted or exempted public records compiled for auditing special education costs because they were compiled for civil law enforcement purposes. The …
Brief • February 1, 2018
ACLU Northern California v. FBI, CA, Opinion-Appeal, Freedom Of Information Act, 2018 FOR PUBLICATION UNITED STATES COURT OF APPEALS FOR THE NINTH CIRCUIT AMERICAN CIVIL LIBERTIES UNION OF NORTHERN CALIFORNIA; ASIAN LAW CAUCUS; SAN FRANCISCO BAY GUARDIAN, Plaintiffs-Appellees, No. 16-15178 D.C. No. 3:10-cv-03759-RS OPINION v. FEDERAL BUREAU OF INVESTIGATION, Defendant-Appellant. …
$15.000 Settles Multiple Civil Rights Complaints by Christopher Zoukis by Christopher Zoukis The Bureau of Prisons settled multiple civil rights lawsuits brought by prisoner David Y. Merritt in March 2002. Merritt, an imprisoned government informant, filed several lawsuits against the Bureau of Prisons in federal court between 1995 and 2001. …
BOP Fails and Prevails in Prison Guard Discrimination Complaint by Christopher Zoukis by Christopher Zoukis Robert T. Aranda, an "inmate systems officer" (prison guard), was a very litigious Bureau of Prisons employee. Between 1996 and 1998, while working at multiple BOP facilities in several capacities, Aranda filed at least six …
Article • December 28, 2017
$99,000 to Settle Claim Over Use of Four-Point Restraints by Christopher Zoukis by Christopher Zoukis The federal Bureau of Prisons settled a claim that alleged abusive use of "four-point" restraints in United States Penitentiary Atlanta, Georgia in the late 1990s. Three prisoners held at USP Atlanta who were subjected to …
Article • December 22, 2017
Willful Violation of Tennessee FOIA Occurs by Requiring Unauthorized Fees by A Tennessee state appellate court reversed a trial court’s ruling that a custodian of records’ denial of access to public records was “not willful." The court found the denial was “willful." Where the prior ruling prevented the trial court from …
Article • December 11, 2017
Fifth Circuit Allows Intervention by Sierra Club in Reverse FOIA Suit by Christopher Zoukis By Christopher Zoukis The United States Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit has allowed Sierra Club to intervene in a reverse Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) records request lawsuit. The dispute stemmed from FOIA requests …
$750 to Washington State Prisoner in Mailroom/Public Records Suit by Lonnie Burton by Lonnie Burton On September 25, 2016, the state of Washington finalized a settlement agreement with a prisoner who had sued for public records act violations and for improper prison mail rejections. The parties agreed to a $750 …
Article • December 1, 2017
California Attorney Invoices Not Categorically Exempt from PRA Disclosure by Mark Wilson by Mark Wilson The California Supreme Court held that legal billing statements in closed cases are not categorically exempt from disclosure under California’s Public Records Act (PRA). Modeled after the federal Freedom of Information Act (FOIA), the California …
Page 1 of 14. | 1 2 3 4 5 ... 10 11 12 13 14 | Next »