The Freedom of Information Act - 5 U.S.C. Section 552   -  Last Amended 2007

 

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This is the most current version of the Freedom of Information Act as of August 2009. The latest amendments were introduced in Public Law 110-175, passed December 31, 2007. Some amendments went into effect immediately, and some went into effect one year later (December 31, 2008).

 

-Jed Margolin

 


 

Sec. 552. Public information; agency rules, opinions, orders, records, and proceedings

 

a) Each agency shall make available to the public information as follows:

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(B) On complaint, the district court of the United States in the district in which the complainant resides, or has his principal place of business, or in which the agency records are situated, or in the District of Columbia, has jurisdiction to enjoin the agency from withholding agency records and to order the production of any agency records improperly withheld from the complainant. In such a case the court shall determine the matter de novo, and may examine the contents of such agency records in camera to determine whether such records or any part thereof shall be withheld under any of the exemptions set forth in subsection (b) of this section, and the burden is on the agency to sustain its action. In addition to any other matters to which a court accords substantial weight, a court shall accord substantial weight to an affidavit of an agency  concerning the agency's determination as to technical feasibility under paragraph (2)(C) and subsection (b) and reproducibility under paragraph (3)(B).