Freedom of Information Act Access to Personal Information Contained in Government Records: Public Property or Protected Information?

摘要

For purposes of this article, we will assume that the Soldiers described in the introductory example are not stationed overseas, members of a routinely deployable unit, or otherwise covered by 10 U.S.C. § 130b. As a result, Exemption 3 does not apply to these FOIA requests. Applying, therefore, only the privacy exemptions, the FOIA requires us to disclose in response to the first request, the identities of two of the three Soldiers who received GOMORs, subject to the deletion of personal information such as social security numbers.