found in selected excerpts from opinions, the precedent that governs this Circuit does not hold that the privilege is limited to deliberations concerning the formulation of policy. The purpose of the privilege is to protect the decision-making process within government agencies and to encourage “the frank disc ars, Robuck & Co., 421 U.S. 132, 150, 95 S.Ct. 1504, 44 L.Ed.2d 29 (1975). And even if one were to draw a distinction between operational and policy-related matters, in ICM Registry, LLC v. Dep’t of Commerce, 538 F.Supp.2d 130 (D.D.C.2008), the district court recognized that internal deliberations about public relations efforts are not simply routine operational decisions: they are “deliberations about policy, even if they involve ‘massaging’ the agenc/s public image.” Id. at 136 (<HOLDING>). Other courts in this district have reached
holding that emails among prosecutors relating to decision not to prosecute were covered by the deliberative process privilege holding that internal emails about how to present an agency decision to the public were covered by the deliberative process privilege holding that there is no statutory deliberative process privilege in arizona and declining to create such a privilege under the common law recognizing application of federal deliberative process privilege to internal state communications holding that in analyzing whether materials are protected from disclosure under exemption 5 of foia which protects materials covered by the deliberative process privilege  a court must first be able to pinpoint an agency decision or policy to which these documents contributed and stating that the decision whether to prosecute an individual is the type of decision protected by the privilege