Privacy Act

Video of drug agent shooting himself ruled matter of public interest

An agent for the U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration lost a ruling in federal appeals court when the court ruled that  a video that went viral of his accidentally shooting himself during a public lecture did not violate the  Privacy Act. The agent claimed that the video was part of an investigation into the shooting and was private. -db From The Reporters Committee for Freedom of the Press, January 18, 2012, by Rachel Bunn. Full story

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Former federal prosecutor loses case over reporter’s sources

A federal judge ruled against a former federal prosecutor claiming a confidential source from the Department of Justice violated his privacy rights by talking with a reporter. In his decision the judge said that the former prosecutor could not prevail in his case against the Department of Justice (DOJ) because he needed to show that the department “willfully violated his rights” under the Privacy Act and that the person leaking information to the press was

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Federal judge orders CIA to produce records of government experiments on soldiers 1950-1975

Three veteran groups and six individual veterans won a judgment in federal court ordering the CIA to produce records about human experiments conducted on soldiers from 1950 to 1975. -db Courthouse News Service November 17, 2010 By Annie Youderian (CN) – A federal magistrate judge in San Francisco ordered the CIA to produce specific records and testimony about the human experiments the government allegedly conducted on thousands of soldiers from 1950 through 1975. Three veterans

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