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It could lead to discriminisation of people (or topics). They should not keep the information about who requested what any longer than needed to fulfill the request.


I wouldn't be surprised if they were required to keep the info for auditing purposes to report on how many FOIA requests they get, if they responded in a timely manner, etc. If they dumped that info, I can see another group of people all pissed off that the government is hiding the stats about the whole FOIA request/response procedure. It really doesn't matter what the government does... there is always going to be some group of people that will complain about it.


Ok, so the topic might be worth keeping. But your examples show no need for keeping the identification of the requester.




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