Court opinion issued May 3, 2024
Boundaoui v. FBI (N.D. Ill.) -- following in camera review of sample documents, deciding that: (1) FBI improperly relied on Exemption 7(C) to redact race, ethnic information, and nationality of people investigated, because disclosure would not increase risk of identification; (2) FBI properly withheld various categories of records pursuant to Exemption 7(E); (3) FBI met its burden to show that the withheld information could not be further segregated and released.
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