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The living relatives of two juveniles killed on public parkland have a privacy interest that trumps the public 's interest in their names , particularly since the request is from a newspaper , the Department of Interior said in denying a Freedom of Information Act request appeal . At the VA , unions were not allowed to review merit promotions at all , whereas at DHEW merit promotion records were released with the names removed in response to a Freedom of Information Act request . " In " Why Reward Failure , " Tim Lynch , director of the Cato Institute 's Project on Criminal Justice , writes : " [ In October ] , a Freedom of Information Act lawsuit revealed that the [ FBI ] is presently investigating hundreds of potential violations relating to its use of secret surveillance operations . For example , no accounting would be required of a disclosure to the individual himself , or of a disclosure to a member of the public ( be it the individual or someone else ) pursuant to a Freedom of Information Act request . CPSR investigated the FBI 's claims by filing a Freedom of Information Act suit to obtain the relevant documents . " At the conclusion of executive session , the meeting reconvened in open session , at which time the Rector called for the Freedom of Information Act certification of compliance that ( 1 ) only public business matters lawfully exempted from the open meeting requirements under the Freedom of Information Act were discussed and ( 2 ) only such public business matters as were identified in the motion by which the executive session was convened were heard , discussed or considered . Because the Act uses the Freedom of Information Act definition of " agency , " such disclosures can be handled as subsection 3 ( b ) ( 1 ) disclosures ( i.e ., to officers and employees of the agency who have a need for the record in the performance of their duties ) rather than as routine uses that would have to meet the compatible-purpose test . As of 2000 , A-Files remain in the legal custody of the Immigration and Naturalization Service , and researchers interested in examining those records should direct a Freedom of Information Act request to that agency . Because the article states A Freedom of Information Act request by The Post for Kerry 's records produced six pages of information . Furthermore , because the Privacy Act incorporates the Freedom of Information Act definition of an " agency , " the routine-use provisions have had almost no effect on " internal " disclosures among the components of large agencies that operate many different types of programs . At the conclusion of Executive Session , the meeting reconvened in open session , at which time the Rector called for the Freedom of Information Act certification of compliance that ( 1 ) only public business matters lawfully exempted from the open meeting requirements under the Freedom of Information Act were discussed and ( 2 ) only such public business matters as were identified in the motion by which the executive session was convened were heard , discussed or considered .