Monday, July 06, 2009

"Reasonableness" Standard Adopted for FOIA Requests

Trentadue v. FBI, 2009 WL 1886696 (10th Cir. July 2, 2009) (published)
In this case, in which Mr. Trentadue sought records from the FBI under the Freedom of Information Act, the Tenth Circuit adopts the standard of other circuits that FOIA requires only that an agency make a "reasonable" search of its records to comply with a FOIA demand.