Michigan Federation of Teachers & School Related Personnel v. University of Michigan

In this case, we must decide if the home addresses and telephone numbers of University of Michigan employees sought through a Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) request are exempt from disclosure under FOIA’s privacy exemption.1 We hold that employees’ home addresses and telephone numbers meet both prongs of FOIA’s privacy exemption because that information is “of a personal nature” and its disclosure would constitute a “clearly unwarranted invasion of an individual’s privacy.” In reaching this conclusion, we reexamine the definition of “information of a personal nature” set forth by this…