Appeals Court Tells ICE Its Counterintuitive Tracking System Doesn’t Justify Jerking Around FOIA Requesters
from the stop-being-deliberately-obtuse dept
By Tim Cushing, Techdirt, Feb. 16, 2023
U.S. Immigration and Custom Enforcement (ICE), like nearly every government agency, doesn’t care much for FOIA requests or requesters. It generally takes a lawsuit to force the agency to comply with its FOIA obligations. And its day-to-day handling of FOIA requests is so uninspired, it couldn’t even come up with a reason to deny Mike Masnick’s fee waiver request.
Based on my review of your March 4, 2014 letter and for the reasons stated herein, I have determined that your fee waiver request is deficient because .
It will have to be (slightly) more responsive now. The Second Circuit Appeals Court has reversed a pretty terrible decision by the lower court in an FOIA lawsuit brought by the ACLU. The Appeals Court decision [PDF] opens up with the court’s attempt to explain ICE’s needlessly-convoluted incident tracking system.
Read more here.