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LatteLazy on Aug 1, 2021 | parent | context | favorite | on: Police can get your data – even if you aren’t susp...

Aren't law enforcement immune from FOIA requests?

barbacoa on Aug 1, 2021 [–]

Police have qualified immunity but not from FOIA (or their state equivalent laws).

LatteLazy on Aug 2, 2021 | [–]

Actually they sort of do:

https://www.justice.gov/oip/foia-guide-2004-edition-exemptio...

Nothing that might reveal their investigations among other things. And who decides what is covered? The police themselves...

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