DC Rejects a “FOIA” Vanity Plate

By Andrew Beaujon, Washingtonian, Mar. 2, 2020

The Freedom of Information Act is a big part of Allan Blutstein’s life. The Chinatown resident has been a FOIA attorney for a decade and a half, and he’s handled FOIA requests as both a responder, for the Justice and Treasury departments, and as a requester: He’s currently the senior vice-president of FOIA operations at the political research firm America Rising. He also helps run a blog called FOIA Advisor.

So it makes sense that Blutstein’s dream license plate reads “FOIA.” “I thought it would be fun,” he tells Washingtonian. But the DC DMV rejected Blutstein’s request, citing “reference of govt language” in a letter to him dated February 21. 

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