In a prior post, I mentioned that I won a FOIA Appeal in a records request case against the DC Metropolitan Police Department. This would have allowed all anonymous requestors to request documents without revealing their identity.

MPD appealed the appeal decision. They thought they were going to take me down to china town by claiming that Federal FOIA requires unanonymous requests. I looked up several similar cases and found key differences which undermined their argument. They said, I didn’t have standing to make an appeal in court. Ha, it was an administrative appeal…not a court appeal.

Anyway, to make a long story short, I prevailed in the appeal to the appeal. So, once again, there is room now for anyone anywhere to anonymous request any non-exempt record AND appeal a witholding decision AND appeal an agency appeal. (Incidentally, I argued that DC agencies do not have any legal basis to file an appeal since the statute does not carve out this possibility. I still think I’m right about that but since I won my case, no need to get too huffy puffy about it.)

Here is the ruling:

http://imgur.com/a/IUu4p