Virginia School Board Sues FOIA Recipients For Receiving FOIA'ed Documents It Handed To Them

Virginia School Board Sues FOIA Recipients For Receiving FOIA'ed Documents It Handed To Them

3 years ago
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https://www.techdirt.com/articles/20211010/19222947732/virginia-school-board-sues-foia-recipients-receiving-foiaed-documents-it-handed-to-them.shtml

Yeah, it can suck when you fail to handle FOIA requests properly and give the public more information than you intended to. It sucks for the government. It doesn't suck for the public, which is rarely treated to anything more than the most minimal of transparency.

Unfortunately, government agencies don't always react well when they've screwed things up. Sometimes the blowback is limited to ineffectual shouting or paper waving. Sometimes, however, it's a lawsuit seeking a court order to prevent people from accessing (or sharing) documents they've legally obtained from a government agency.