PUBLIC RECORDS VICTORY: CDC AGREES TO SETTLEMENT IN AMERICAN OVERSIGHT LAWSUIT CHALLENGING AGENCY’S FOIA PRACTICES

American Oversight, Mar. 10, 2023

American Oversight has reached an important settlement agreement in a lawsuit filed against the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) over the agency’s illegal practice of rejecting valid Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) requests.

The settlement includes a requirement that the CDC send an instructional email to all FOIA staff regarding the improper rejection of requests as “overly broad” — a claim the agency used to deny several of American Oversight’s requests related to the pandemic in 2020.

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