JANE KIRTLEY - Cases and documents that she referred to in her FOIA presentation Friday in The Well.


NATIONAL ARCHIVES AND RECORDS ADMIN. V. FAVISH
U.S. Supreme Court opinion decided March 30, 2004 in regards to Favish challenge to gain access to Vincent Foster Jr. crime scene photos.

NEWSPAPERS DROP CHALLENGE TO AUTOPSY-PHOTO LAW Published April 13, 2004 in the Orlando Sentinel
In light of recent court rulings, the Orlando Sentinal and the South Florida Sun Sentinal "dropped their legal challenge of a Florida law passed after the death of Dale Earnhardt that restricts public access to autopsy photos."

UNITED STATES DEPARTMENT OF JUSTICE et al. v. REPORTERSCOMMITTEE FOR FREEDOM OF THE PRESS et al.
U.S. Supreme Court opinion decided March 22, 1989
"The court held that the fact that an event was not wholly "private" did not mean that an individual had no interest in limiting its disclosure. The privacy interest in a rap sheet was substantial. Whether an invasion of privacy was warranted had to turn on the nature of the requested document and its relationship to the basic purpose of the FOIA, which focused on the citizen's right to be informed about the government's actions. The news groups in this case did not intend to discover anything about the conduct of the agency, and response to the request would not shed any light on the agency's conduct. Thus, the public interest in release of a rap sheet was not the type of interest protected by the FOIA"

U.S. Department of Homeland Security Threats and Protection - Critical Infrastructure
DHS Launches Protected Critical Infrastructure Information Program to Enhance Homeland Security, Facilitate Information Sharing. This is the agreement to keep certain private enterprises from scrutiny.