Defendant failed to meet its burden of establishing the applicability of the FOIA exemption to these documents. Applicable Law The FOIA “Congress intended FOIA to permit access to official information long shielded unnecessarily from public view.” Milner v. Dept. of Navy,— U.S.-, 131 S.Ct. 1259, 1262, 179 L.Ed.2d 268 (2011) (quotation omitted). “FOIA thus mandates that an agency disclose records on request, unless they fall within one of nine exemptions. These exemptions are explicitly made exclusive and must be narrowly construed.” Hulstein v. Drug Enforcement Admin., 671 F.3d 690, 694 (8th Cir.2012) (quotations omitted). FOIA is designed, however, to benefit the public, not specific litigants. NLRB v. Sears, Roebuck & Co., 421 U.S. 132, 143 n. 10, 95 S.Ct. 1504, 44 L.Ed.2d 29 (1975) (<HOLDING>); see also NLRB v. Robbins Tire & Rubber
recognizing that a requesters rights under the act are neither increased nor decreased by reason of the fact that he or she claims an interest in the requested records greater than that shared by the average members of the public holding in the context of a case involving the availability for public inspection of criminal docket books that files in the possession of the clerk of the criminal court of the city of new york are public records which may be fully examined by any person unless the papers have been sealed from public scrutiny by the court or by the terms of a statute recognizing the public interest exception recognizing that intent of public records act is to provide all citizens with access to the records of all public governmental bodies holding that neither the ada nor the rehabilitation act applies to prison employment