2022年1月21日 · Below is the full text of the Freedom of Information Act in a form showing all amendments to the statute made by the “FOIA Improvement Act of 2016." All newly enacted provisions in boldface type replace the strikethrough text.

Exemption 5 of the Freedom of Information Act protects "inter-agency or intra-agency memorandums or letters which would not be available by law to a party other than an agency in litigation with the agency."

the purpose of section 552 of title 5, United States Code, popularly known as the Freedom of Information Act, is to require agencies of the Federal Government to make certain agency information available for public inspection and copying and to establish and enable enforcement of the right of any person to obtain access to the records of such ...

2021年12月3日 · Freedom of Information Act Guide, May 2004 Exemption 5 (1) The courts have construed this somewhat opaque language, with its sometimes confusing threshold requirement, (2) to "exempt those documents, and only those documents that are normally privileged in the civil discovery context."

2024年5月29日 · Exemption 5 of the federal Freedom of Information Act covers multiple privileges, including those that protect an attorney’s work product, attorney-client communications, and the “deliberative process.”

For nearly four decades, the Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) [5 U.S.C. 552] has provided an important means through which the public can obtain information regarding the activities of Federal agencies. Under the FOIA, the public can obtain records from any Federal agency, subject to the exemptions enacted by the Congress to protect ...

Exemption (b) (5) protects "inter-agency or intra-agency memorandums or letters which would not be available by law to a party ... in litigation with the agency."

2014年6月27日 · Exemption 5 protects “inter-agency or intra-agency memorandums or letters which would not be available by law to a party other than an agency in litigation with the agency.” Nate Jones of the National Security Archive recently called it the “ …

2014年3月27日 · Government agencies are increasingly citing this same “deliberative process” to trigger a Freedom of Information Act exemption –b (5)– that allows them to withhold any “interagency or intra-agency communication,” as well as …

To summarize, always remember that Exemption 5 has 2 parts (threshold and privileges): the agency must satisfy both parts of the exemption in order to withhold a document