Court Records Officials Internet Browsing Histories
Court Rules Govt Officials' Internet Browsing Histories Are Not Public ...
OMB, Judge Rao (joined by Judges Srinivasan and Sentelle) agreed with the district court that federal agencies do not exercise the requisite degree of control over internet browsing histories for the histories to constitute agency records subject to FOIA disclosure.
https://yro.slashdot.org/story/21/08/23/0136240/court-rules-govt-officials-internet-browsing-histories-are-not-public-records
Government Officials' Internet Browsing Histories Are Not Agency ...
Jonathan H. Adler | 8.21.2021 7:15 PM The Cause of Action Institute sought to obtain the internet browsing histories of several government officials, including the Secretary of Agriculture and...
https://reason.com/volokh/2021/08/21/government-officials-internet-browsing-histories-are-not-agency-records-under-foia/
DC Circuit rules against group seeking internet browsing histories of ...
By Debra Cassens Weiss August 27, 2021, 10:15 am CDT Image from Shutterstock. Internet browsing histories of government officials sought by a watchdog group aren’t “agency records” subject to...
https://www.abajournal.com/news/article/dc-circuit-rules-against-group-seeking-internet-browsing-histories-of-government-officials
[Opinion] Government Officials' Internet Browsing Histories Are Not ...
The Cause of Action Institute sought to obtain the internet browsing histories of several government officials, including the Secretary of Agriculture and Director of the Office of Management and Budget, under the Freedom of Information Act (FOIA). A district court rejected their claim, concluding that browsing histories are not agency records under FOIA.
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Strictly Legal: Federal officials' browsing history may be off-limits
Cause of Action’s requests for browsing histories included two officials by name – former Office of Management and Budget Director John Michael "Mick" Mulvaney and former Department of Agriculture...
https://www.cincinnati.com/story/money/2021/11/20/strictly-legal-federal-officials-browsing-history-may-off-limits/8656666002/
Browser histories are not public records
Superior Court (2019) 31 Cal.App.5th 528, 540 [contractual right to access data “data does not equate to a form of possession or control”].) The Court held browser histories are not agency records. The agencies did not express intent to retain control over employees’ browser histories. ( Cause of Action Institute , supra, 2021 WL 3699794 at p. *4.)
https://www.californiapubliclawreport.com/2021/08/foia-case-browser-histories-are-not-public-records/
Access to Electronic Court Records - California
Courts may keep official records about cases in paper or electronic format. There are three ways to look at court records: Go to the courthouse and ask to look at paper records. Go to the courthouse and look at electronic court records. If your court offers it, look at electronic records over the internet. This is called “remote access ...
https://www.courts.ca.gov/42512.htm
A Penny for Your Browsing Habits: Are Browsing Histories “Agency ...
Browsing histories certainly qualify as “personnel, medical, and similar records,” given the breadth of the courts’ reading of the phrase. See, e.g., Cook v. National Archives & Records Administration, 758 F.3d 168, 174-75 (2d Cir. 2014). [16] Exemption 6 would almost certainly justify redaction of sites visited solely for personal reasons.
https://www.yalejreg.com/nc/a-penny-for-your-browsing-habits-are-browsing-histories-agency-records-under-foia/
FOIA News: Browsing histories are not agency records, rules D.C. Cir ...
law360, aug. 23, 2021 -- the d. c. circuit rejected a watchdog group's bid to obtain the web browsing histories of several senior government officials, including the director of the office of management and budget and secretary of the u. s. department of agriculture, ruling that they are not considered agency records subject to disclosure under …
https://www.foiaadvisor.com/home/2021/8/23/foia-news-browsing-histories-are-not-agency-records-rules-dc-cir
United States Court of Appeals
It submitted a request for the internet browsing histories of several senior agency officials over a specified period of approximately six months, asserting that the histories were subject to disclosure under FOIA. 5 U.S.C. § 552(a)(3)(A); id. § 552(a)(4)(B). Browsing histories record internet activity.
https://www.cadc.uscourts.gov/internet/opinions.nsf/0/4EDB506AA1E88CE3852587370050DCAF/$file/20-5006-1910925.pdf
Court Rules Govt Officials' Internet Browsing Histories Are Not Public ...
Yeah..no. most agencies allow their users a certain amount of freedom to browse in breaks, access child care, access banks etc. This information SHOULD NOT ever be for public record. I would tend to agree that under normal circumstances browsing history wouldn't be something you could use FOIA to...
https://www.newsbreak.com/news/2348973585155/court-rules-govt-officials-internet-browsing-histories-are-not-public-records