• Skip to primary navigation
  • Skip to main content
  • Skip to primary sidebar
  • Skip to secondary sidebar
  • Skip to footer

Legal Advocate

  • Home
  • About
  • Resources
    • Real Estate Note Investing
    • Self Direct Roth IRA
    • Commerce Groups
    • Senior Citizens
  • News
  • Contact

CBP Must Release Twitter Summons-Related Files to Reporters

Oct. 19, 2021, 7:48 PM

  • Agency issued summons to Twitter to identify policy critic
  • Foreseeable harm of disclosure standard added to FOIA in 2016

Several records related to U.S. Customs and Border Protection’s decision to pump Twitter for details about a user critical of the agency’s policies must be released to a national media group, a federal court said.

The Reporters Committee for Freedom of the Press overcame the agency’s assertion of Freedom of Information Act exemptions for information about whether to issue a summons to the social medial company—and whether to withdraw it following legal action—the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia said.

CBP’s assertion that it “reasonably foresees that disclosure would harm an interest protected by” the deliberate process and …

Mary Anne Pazanowski

Mary Anne Pazanowski

Legal Reporter

© 2021 The Bureau of National Affairs, Inc.

All Rights Reserved

Primary Sidebar

  • Home
  • About
  • Resources
    • Real Estate Note Investing
    • Self Direct Roth IRA
    • Commerce Groups
    • Senior Citizens
  • News
  • Contact

Secondary Sidebar

Archives

  • March 2022
  • February 2022
  • January 2022
  • December 2021
  • November 2021
  • October 2021
  • September 2021
  • August 2021
  • July 2021
  • June 2021
  • May 2021
  • April 2021
  • March 2021
  • February 2021

Categories

  • Business News
  • Legal News
  • Local News

Meta

  • Log in
  • Entries feed
  • Comments feed
  • WordPress.org

Footer