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Tag: speech or debate exemption

D.C. Council Can’t Claim FOIA “Speech or Debate” Exemption

Posted on June 10, 2016

The D.C. high court ruled June 9 that an obscure law doesn’t work as an almost total exemption for the D.C. Council from the broad public access requirements of the District’s Freedom of Information Act (FOIA), extended by the Council to cover itself in 2000.

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