Maydak v. U.S. Dept. of Justice.

• Position: FREE SPEECH, EXPRESSION, ASSOCIATION - Brief Article

U.S. District Court

FOIA -- Freedom of Information Act

Maydak v. U.S. Dept. of Justice, 254 F.Supp.2d 23 (D.D.C. 2003). A prisoner sought the release, under the Freedom of Information Act (FOIA), of copies of law enforcement and prison records. The district court granted summary judgment for the government and the prisoner appealed. The appeals court held that the Bureau of Prisons (BOP) specifically exempted its systems of inmate records from the access provisions of the disclosure accounting requirement of the Privacy Act, as it was permitted to do. The court ruled that the BOP was justified in withholding records related solely to its internal personnel rules...