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FOIA News: GSA ordered to release info on FBI’s HQ bldg.

GSA ordered to release FBI HQ details previously redacted in FOIA request

By Jory Heckman, Fed. News Network, Mar. 6, 2019    

A district court judge has ordered the General Services Administration to release appraisal information about the FBI’s J. Edgar Hoover Building, as well as offers GSA received for the property.

GSA had previously redacted that information in response to a Freedom of Information Act request filed by Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics in Washington (CREW).

Tuesday’s ruling from D.C. District Court Judge Christopher Cooper followed a ruling he made last December, ordering GSA to do a “more comprehensive search” for FBI headquarters records.

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