amended Exemption 7 in 1986 to make clear that 7(E) “was not limited to records or information addressing only individual violations - of the law.” Id. at 79. More recently, in Blackwell v. Federal Bureau of Investigation, the Court of Appeals held that the FBI had properly withheld methods of data collection, organization, and presentation contained in certain reports under Exemption 7(E). 646 F.3d at 42. The methods were developed for the FBI to meet the agency’s “investigative needs,” rather than linked to a specific investigation. Id. Moreover, as Defendant correctly points out, Def.’s Mot. at 11, 13-14, courts in this District repeatedly have held that information connected to law enforcement databases qualifies for exemption under 7(E). See, e.g., Long, 149 F.Supp.3d at 44 (<HOLDING>); Strunk v. U.S. Dep’t of State, 906 F.Supp.2d
holding that computer transaction and function codes that reveal how to navigate and retrieve information from a law enforcement database were properly withheld under exemption 7e holding that user access codes that facilitated access to a law enforcement database were properly redacted under exemption 7e holding that records concerning polygraph examination procedures and other law enforcement techniques are protected from disclosure under  exemption 7e holding that numerical codes used to identify information and individuals as well as codes related to procedures concerning the use of law enforcement resources and databases  and case program and access codes were properly withheld under exemption 7e holding that requests for metadata and database schema of law enforcement information databases qualify for exemption under 7e