Legal Opinion
Elec. Privacy Info. Ctr. v. Dep't of Justice
Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit
Decided August 15, 2018No. Case No. 1:17-cv-00410 (TNM)PublishedCited by 1 opinion
1Opinion of the Court
TREVOR N. MCFADDEN, U.S.D.J.
The Electronic Privacy Information Center, or EPIC, claims a right under the *114Freedom of Information Act to records from the Department of Justice about evidence-based assessment tools that seek to predict the statistical probability of an individual's recidivism. The Department has identified relevant records in its possession but has withheld many records in whole or in part, either as private personal information or as information protected by the presidential communications and deliberative process privileges. Because the Department has justified each of the…
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