Legal Opinion
Tuffly v. U.S. Department of Homeland Security
Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit
Decided September 13, 2017No. 16-15342PublishedCited by 13 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
OPINION
REINHARDT, Circuit Judge:
Edward “Bud” Tuffly, the treasurer of the National Border Patrol Council, the union for Border Patrol agents, seeks to compel, under the Freedom of Information Act, the disclosure of the names of 149 non-citizens who were released from detention pending a final determination whether they will be removed—names that could be linked to other personal information that has already been released. In opposing release of the names, the government invoked FOIA’s personal privacy exemptions, finding that the former detainees had a privacy interest in the nondisclosure of…
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