American Federation of Government Employees, Local 812 v. Broadcasting Board of Governors
D.D.C.5/18/2010
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MEMORANDUM OPINION ELLEN SEGAL HUVELLE, District Judge. Plaintiffs Verla Wiley and American Federation of Government Employees, Local 1812 (âAFGE,â âLocal 812,â or âthe unionâ) have brought this action against the United States Broadcasting Board of Governors (âBBGâ or âthe agencyâ) under the Freedom of Information Act (âFOIAâ), 5 U.S.C. § 552 . Plaintiffs seek to compel disclosure of documents related to the BBGâs alleged refusal to grant Wiley, a union official and former BBG employee, unescorted access to an agency facility known as the âCohen Building.â After searching its records, the BBG identified 230 responsive pages, of which it produced 164 pages in their entirety, withheld 23 pages in them entirety, and produced 43 pages in redacted form. The BBG now moves for summary judgment. Plaintiff Wiley, proceeding pro se, has cross-moved for summary judgment, arguing both that the search was inadequate and that the redactions and withholdings are improper; plaintiff AFGE has also cross-moved for summary judgment, arguing only that BBGâs search was inadequate. Upon consideration of the partiesâ submissions and the entire record, and for the reasons discussed herein, defendantâs motion is granted in part and plaintiffsâ cross-motions for summary judgment are denied in part. Defendant will also be required to supplement its declarations, and the remainder of the partiesâ summary judgment motions will be held in abeyance pending the Courtâs review of defendantâs additional declarations. BACKGROUND The BBG is a federal agency that oversees the International Broadcasting Bureau (âIBBâ), which carries out government-sponsored nonmilitary international broadcasting services through Voice of America (âVOAâ) and other entities. See generally 22 U.S.C. §§ 6202 , 6204, 6206. The BBG itself is a bipartisan independent *143 body composed of nine voting members: eight Governors appointed by the President (one of whom is appointed as Chairman) and the Secretary of State. See id. § 6203(b). AFGE Local 812 is the collective bargaining representative for a unit of BBG employees. (AFGEâs Statement of Material Facts as to Which There Is No Genuine Dispute (âAFGE SMFâ) ¶ 1.) Wiley was a BBG employee for 39 years and, for all times relevant to this dispute, Local 812âs vice-president. (Wileyâs Statement of Undisputed Material Facts (âWiley SMFâ) ¶ 1; AFGE SMF ¶2.) Wiley retired from the BBG in May 2005 but continues to serve as Local 812âs vice-president. (Wiley SMF ¶¶ 1-2; AFGE SMF ¶¶ 2-3.) On February 2, 2007, the union filed a grievance under the Negotiated Labor-Management Agreement (âNLMAâ), alleging that the BBG had violated the agreement by refusing to grant Wiley unescorted access to the âCohen Building,â a BBG office facility. (AFGE SMF ¶ 8.) Over two years later on March 13, 2009, Wiley wrote a letter to the agency requesting records under FOIA (âthe FOIA requestâ). {See Wileyâs Oppân to Def.âs Mot. for Summ. J. & Mem. in Supp. of Cross-Mot. for Summ. J. (âWiley Oppânâ), Ex. E (âFOIA Requestâ).) 1 Wileyâs letter stated that upon her retirement, the former director of the agencyâs Office of Security, John Wybenga, personally gave her an IBB âretiree badgeâ that enabled her to move freely around the Cohen Building without an escort; however, beginning in June 2006, the agency no longer treated that badge as valid for unescorted access, so Wiley âmust sign in and be escorted at all times.â {Id. at 1.) This, she asserted, âdisrupted union businessâ and âhamperedâ her ability to perform her union duties. {Id.) Wileyâs letter also asserted that the refusal to grant her unescorted access to the building âafter [she has] come through [the agencyâs] security checkpoint system indicates that the BBG and the Office of Security believe that [she is] a security risk....â {Id.) Wiley requested 14 categories of documents, summarized as follows: (1) her security file from January 1999 to the present, including any record âregarding inferred security risks, building access, BBG retirees, the I.D. Badge and any other issues that included her name in the discussionâ; (2) all records between âBBG/VOA/IBB management, the Office of Security, and intelligence agenciesâ regarding Wiley and âinferred security risks, building access, BBG retirees, the I.D. Badge and any other issues that included her name in the discussionâ; (3) all records between âBBG management, IBB, VOA, and the Office of Security over the issues of the I.D. Badge, retirees, and access to the Cohen Building for [Wiley]â; (4) all records regarding âwhat prompted the Agency and the Office of Security to ban Verla Wiley from the buildingâ in 2006 and why; (5) all records âfinding Verla Wiley a security risk,â if the agencyâs decision to deny her unescorted access to the Cohen Building was a ârisk-based decisionâ under Homeland Security Presidential Directive 12 (âHSPD-12â); (6) all records regarding âwhy [Wiley] wasnât told when [she] retired in 2005 that [her] retiree badge was not adequate for unescorted access to the Co *144 hen Buildingâ and that such access would require âa background investigation using the SF-86 formâ; (7) all records âexplaining why there is a need for [Wiley] to fill out any background investigation form when [her] retiree badge did not expire until 2009, and [she] continued [her] union activities without a break in service after retiring from the agencyâ; (8) all records regarding agency policy âprior to 2004â for retired employees who continued to do âvolunteer workâ for Local 1812, in light of the Office of Securityâs purported statement that the policy ârestricting BBG retireesâ access to the Cohen Building was implemented on August 24, 2004â; (9) all records âinforming employees that that IBB Identification Retiree Badges will no longer be valid for unescorted access to the buildingâ; (10) all records âregarding the Building Committee, the deciding officials who allegedly in August 2004, voted to restrict retirees from having access to the building unless escorted, and why the decision to restrict was done at that particular time since there appeared to be no high terror alert and it was three (3) years after September 11, 2001â; (11) all records âregarding terror alerts from September 01, 2001 to September 30, 2004â; (12) all records regarding âwhy the Agency and the Office of Security applied an August 2004 policy for Retirees, instead of respecting Yerla Wileyâs rightsâ as a union official and âabiding] by the Negotiated Labor-Management Agreementâ; (13) all records regarding âhow other Union Executive Board Officers who had retired from the Agency were permitted to use their retiree badges until 2007 without the requirement of a permanent escortâ; (14) âa copy of the follow-up recommendations and any other documents dealing withâ criticisms of the Office of Security and Office of Personnel that were made in a 1993 document entitled âA Just Workplace Task Force Report,â which was issued by the BBGâs former parent agency. (See FOIA Request at 2-4.) On March 16, 2009, Wileyâs request was received by Martha Diaz-Ortiz, the BBGâs FOIA officer. (Def.âs Statement of Material Facts as to Which There Is No Genuine Dispute (âDef.âs SMFâ) in Supp. of Mot. for Summ. J. (âDef.âs Mot.â) ¶ 1.) 2 The agency classified the request as one made under the Privacy Act and did not charge Wiley any fee. (Def.âs SMF ¶ 1.) On March 25, Diaz-Ortiz forwarded the FOIA request to Michael Lawrence, the agencyâs Director of Security, and requested that the Office of Security search for responsive documents. (Def.âs Mot., Deck *145 of Martha Diaz-Ortiz (âDiaz-Ortiz Decl.â) ¶ 3.) At Diaz-Ortizâs request in March or April 2009, Carol Durika, the chief of the User Services Division in the agencyâs Office of Computing Services (âOCSâ), restored former security director Wybengaâs email account and network files, as well as subsequent backup files, from January 8 through 14, 2009. (Def.âs SMF ¶ 4; see also Diaz-Ortiz Decl. ¶ 5.) However, no records related to Wileyâs FOIA request were located. (Def.âs SMF ¶ 4.) During an April 17 meeting, Diaz-Ortiz informed Wiley and union president Timothy Shamble that âbecause [Wileyâs] request was voluminous and required consults with additional components of BBG, the Agency would require additional time, beyond 20 days to respond to her request.â (Id. ¶ 2; see Diaz-Ortiz Decl. ¶ 4.) See 5 U.S.C. § 552 (a)(6) (giving agency 20 days after requestâs receipt to determine whether it will comply and providing for extensions of time). On May 13, 2009, AFGEâs counsel wrote to Diaz-Ortiz about Wileyâs FOIA request, stating that Wiley had not yet received any response from defendant. (See Wiley Oppân, Ex. B at 1 ¶ 1.) The letter asserted that the agencyâs failure to respond within the statutory time limit constituted âconstructive exhaustion of administrative remedies.â (Id. at 1-2 ¶ 3.) It also stated that if the agency did not ârespond to Ms. Wileyâs requestâ by March 27, âthe Union will commence an action in federal district court to enforce her rights to a responseâ and would seek attorneyâs fees for the agencyâs âunjustified failure to respond to Ms. Wileyâs March 13, 2009 request.â (Id. at 2 ¶ 4.) On June 29, 2009, Wiley and AFGE, jointly represented at that time by AFGEâs counsel, filed this action seeking to compel defendant âto disclose agency records improperly withheld from Local 1812 and Verla Wiley.â (Compl. at 1.) They seek an order of disclosure, an award of reasonable costs and attorneyâs fees pursuant to 5 U.S.C. § 552 (a)(4)(E), and any other appropriate relief. (Id. at 4.) On July 8, 2009, Diaz-Ortiz sent Wiley a copy of her security file in response to Item 1 of Wileyâs FOIA request, but withheld a report created by the FBI as part of Wileyâs background investigation on the ground that the record was not created by defendant. (Diaz-Ortiz Decl. ¶ 6; AFGE SMF ¶ 14.) On July 29, Diaz-Ortiz wrote to Wiley to provide additional documents in response to her FOIA request. (See Wiley Oppân, Ex. A.) Diaz-Ortiz explained that the agency was also granting Wileyâs requests for Items 2, 3, 4, 6, and 8, subject to redactions for individual privacy under FOIA Exemption 6. 3 (See id. at 1-4 .) She further explained the agency had not located any records responsive to Item lâs request for documents regarding âinferred security risksâ and related issues, nor had it located records responsive to Items 5, 7, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, or 14. (See id. at 1, 3-6 .) The searches were conducted by six Security Specialists in the Office of Security, who searched emails, computer files, and hard copy files over the course of 16 hours, and by the IBBâs chief of staff, who had *146 spent an hour reviewing her emails and working files for all but Item 1. (See id.) On September 4, 2009, AFGEâs counsel sent a letter to defendant characterizing the agencyâs production as inadequate because, inter alia, the union had located in its own files three BBG documents that were purportedly responsive but not produced. (See Wiley Oppân, Ex. F at 2 ¶ 7.) On September 17, during a telephone call between AFGE and agency counsel, the agency agreed to conduct a further search for documents. (AFGE SMF ¶ 19.) On October 13, the BBG produced three additional documents, as well as some of its document retention policies; the next day, the BBG also produced a partially redacted document. (Id. ¶¶ 20-21.) On October 22, AFGEâs counsel sent a letter to defendant requesting, inter alia, that the agency search the files of 11 named current and former BBG employees (including the BBGâs former chairman and several VOA officials), â[a]ll members of the Building Security Committeeâ from 2004 through the present, and Carol Booker, former BBG general counsel. (See Wiley Oppân, Ex. G at 2-3 ¶¶ 5.) On November 24, 2009, Wiley filed a pro se motion for an emergency status hearing because she believed that the agency was ignoring her FOIA request in bad faith. (See Wileyâs Request to Have the Parties Appear before the Court.) She made the request pro se instead of through counsel because of unresolved âconcerns about the case which [she] ha[d] previously expressed to [c]ounsel,â and because AFGE was purportedly making decisions and engaging in settlement negotiations without informing her. (Id. at 4 ¶¶ 5-6; see also id., Ex. C.) On November 30, AFGEâs counsel moved for permission to withdraw as counsel for Wiley, on the grounds that Wiley failed to consult with them when seeking the emergency hearing, and that this and other conduct by her âplaced [her] interests in conflict with those of AFGE Local 1812.... â (AFGE Counselâs Mot. to Withdraw at 2 ¶ 2.) During a December 9 status conference, the Court granted AFGEâs counselâs motion to withdraw, and Wiley subsequently filed a notice that she would litigate this action pro se. That same day, defendant produced two additional pages of documents (AFGE SMF ¶ 24), with a total of 207 pages released in full or in part and 23 pages withheld in their entirety. (Def.âs SMF ¶ 6.) On December 22, 2009, defendant produced to Wiley electronic copies of 121 pages, including several documents that were not responsive to the FOIA request but which had been sought by the unionâs counsel, such as 44 pages of document retention policies and 16 pages of emails among BBG personnel purporting to document their search for responsive documents. (AFGE SMF ¶ 25.) That same day, defendant moved for summary judgment and supported its motion with declarations by 27 agency employees who conducted record searches between March and October 2009. (See generally Diaz-Ortiz Deck; Def.âs Mot., Deck of Patricia Hargrave (âHargrave Deckâ); id., Deck of Carol Durika (âDurika Deckâ); id., Ex. A (24 declarations).) AFGE and Wiley filed separate consolidated oppositions and cross-motions for summary judgment on February 26 and March 8, 2010, respectively. The agency replied to AFGEâs opposition but did not file a separate reply to Wileyâs brief. ANALYSIS I. STANDARD OF REVIEW The Court may grant a motion for summary judgment âif the pleadings, the discovery and disclosure materials on file, and any affidavits show that there is no genuine issue as to any material fact and that *147 the movant is entitled to judgment as a matter of law.â Fed.R.Civ.P. 56(c). The moving party bears the burden of demonstrating an absence of a genuine issue of material fact in dispute. Celotex Corp. v. Catrett, 477 U.S. 317, 322 , 106 S.Ct. 2548 , 91 L.Ed.2d 265 (1986). Factual assertions in the moving partyâs affidavits may be accepted as true unless the opposing party submits his own affidavits or declarations or documentary evidence to the contrary. Neal v. Kelly, 963 F.2d 453, 456 (D.C.Cir. 1992). âFOIA cases typically and appropriately are decided on motions for summary judgment.â Defenders of Wildlife v. U.S. Border Patrol, 623 F.Supp.2d 83, 87 (D.D.C.2009) (citations omitted). âIn a FOIA case, summary judgment may be granted to the government if âthe agency proves that it has fully discharged its obligations under the FOIA, after the underlying facts and the inferences to be drawn from them are construed in the light most favorable to the FOIA requester.â â Fischer v. Depât of Justice, 596 F.Supp.2d 34, 42 (D.D.C.2009) (quoting Greenberg v. U.S. Depât of Treasury, 10 F.Supp.2d 3, 11 (D.D.C.1998)). The requester may challenge such a showing by âset[ting] out specific facts showing a genuine issue for trial,â Fed.R.Civ.P. 56(e), that would permit a reasonable jury to find in his favor. Laningham v. U.S. Navy, 813 F.2d 1236, 1241 (D.C.Cir.1987). However, agency affidavits âare afforded a presumption of good faith,â and an adequate affidavit âcan be rebutted only âwith evidence that the agencyâs search was not made in good faith.â â Defenders of Wildlife v. U.S. Depât of Interior, 314 F.Supp.2d 1, 8 (D.D.C.2004) (quoting Trans Union LLC v. Fed. Trade Commân, 141 F.Supp.2d 62, 69 (D.D.C.2001)). In other words, a requester cannot rebut the good faith presumption through â âpurely speculative claims about the existence and discoverability of other documents.â â SafeCard Servs., Inc. v. Sec. & Exch. Commân, 926 F.2d 1197, 1200 (D.C.Cir.1991) (quoting Ground Saucer Watch, Inc. v. Cent. Intelligence Agency, 692 F.2d 770, 771 (D.C.Cir.1981)). But âif the sufficiency of the agencyâs identification or retrieval procedure is genuinely in issue, summary judgment is not in order.â Weisberg v. U.S. Depât of Justice, 627 F.2d 365, 370 (D.C.Cir.1980) (internal quotation marks omitted). II. ADEQUACY OF SEARCH Both plaintiffs contend that defendantâs search was inadequate. While some of their challenges to the searchâs adequacy are unpersuasive, some of their arguments are meritorious. As a result, the Court will grant defendantâs motion only in part and require the agency to supplement its declarations; after considering those declarations, the Court will rule on the remainder of defendantâs motion. â[T]he adequacy of a FOIA search is generally determined not by the fruits of the search, but by the appropriateness of the methods used to carry out the search.â Iturralde v. Comptroller of Currency, 315 F.3d 311, 315 (D.C.Cir. 2003). The Court applies a â âreasonablenessâ test to determine the âadequacyâ of search methodology,â Campbell v. U.S. Depât of Justice, 164 F.3d 20, 27 (D.C.Cir. 1998), and requires a âreasonable and systematic approach to locating the requested documents.... â Center for Pub. Integrity v. FCC, 505 F.Supp.2d 106, 116 (D.D.C. 2007). âThe agency must demonstrate that it âmade a good faith effort to conduct a search for the requested records, using methods which can be reasonably expected to produce the information requested.â â Fischer, 596 F.Supp.2d at 42 (quoting *148 Oglesby v. U.S. Depât of the Army, 920 F.2d 57, 68 (D.C.Cir.1990)). The agency submitted 27 declarations by employees that describe the files reviewed and search terms. One declaration was submitted by information technology specialist Carol Durika, who restored electronic files of Wybenga and another former agency employee, George Moore, between March and May 2009. {See Durika Deck ¶¶ 3-4.) Thirteen declarations were submitted by employees with security-related responsibilities, including IBB chief Marie Lennon, all of whom conducted searches in July 2009, shortly after this action was filed. {See Def.âs Mot., Ex. A at 3 (âFranklin Deckâ), 4 (âLawrence Deckâ), 5 (âLang Deckâ), 6 (âKotarski Deckâ), 7 (âWoodland Deckâ), 8 (âBirch Deckâ), 9 (âLagerberg Deckâ), 10 (âHodge Deckâ), 11 (âProctor Deckâ), 12 (âJansen Deckâ), 13 (âPanone Deckâ), 14 (âMcCormick Deckâ), 24 (âLennon Deckâ).) The remaining thirteen declarations describe searches conducted in October 2009 by three employee relations officials, including human resources director Donna Grace, as well as ten attorneys and paralegals, including Diaz-Ortiz and ethics official Patricia Hargrave. {See id. at 1 (âMaloney Deckâ), 2 (âBorum Deckâ), 15 (âGrace Deckâ), 16 (âBaldwin Deckâ), 17 (âMunn Deckâ), 18 (âRighi Deckâ), 19 (âJaiswal Deckâ), 21 (âParish Deckâ), 22 (âKenealy Deckâ), 23 (âKollmer-Dorsey Deckâ), 25 (âPeterson Deckâ); Diaz OrtizDecl.; Hargrave Deck) The later searches by human resources and legal staff were conducted in response to plaintiffsâ September 2009 post-litigation correspondence, which asserted that individuals in the Office of Human Resources and the Office of General Counsel would likely have responsive documents. (AFGE SMF ¶ 19; Hargrave Deck ¶ 2; see Wiley Oppân, Ex. F at 2 ¶ 4.) As an initial matter, the Court rejects plaintiffsâ arguments that defendantâs failure to produce any documents until after litigation commenced is evidence of bad faith or an inadequate search. (See, e.g., Wiley Oppân at 12-14, 18; see also AFGEâs Mem. of P. & A. in Supp. of Cross-Mot. for Summ. J. & Oppân to Def.âs Mot. for Summ. J. (âAFGE Oppânâ) at 5.) â[I]n view of the well-publicized problems created by the statuteâs ... time limits for processing FOIA requests and appeals, the [agencyâs] delay alone cannot be said to indicate an absence of good faith.â Goland v. CIA, 607 F.2d 339, 355 (D.C.Cir. 1978) (footnote omitted); see also Iturralde, 315 F.3d at 315 (â[I]nitial delays in responding to a FOIA request are rarely, if ever, grounds for discrediting later affidavits by the agency.â). Wiley requested an extensive search, and several of her descriptions of the information are somewhat ambiguous. The record shows that the agency began searching for responsive documents shortly after receiving the request {see Diaz-Ortiz Deck ¶¶ 2-5), and less than four months elapsed between the time of Wileyâs request and the agencyâs first production of documents. Any delay in the response does not constitute grounds for denying defendantâs motion for summary judgment. 4 Wiley next argues that the search was inadequate because the agency improperly processed her FOIA request as a Privacy Act request. 5 (Wiley Oppân at 11- *149 12.) The Court is not persuaded. Wiley speculates, without support, that defendant sought to avoid FOIAâs âbroaderâ disclosure standards. (Id. at 12.) Her argument appears to rest upon defendantâs assertion that the documents sought were âspecific to Ms. Wiley.â (Diaz-Ortiz Decl. ¶ 2.) It is true that Wileyâs FOIA request did not only seek information about herself, because Items 8 through 11, 13, and 14 of the FOIA request did not reference her and instead sought documents related more generally to security alerts, building access, the âBuilding Committee,â and an agency task force report. (See Wiley Oppân at 11-12.) However, her speculation about the agencyâs interpretation of the request is inconsistent with the evidence. Diaz-Ortizâs second production of documents was characterized as a âresponse to [Wileyâs] FOIA and Privacy Actâ request and invoked FOIA exemptions. (See id., Ex. A at 1 (emphasis added).) The agency also identified internal policy documents as responsive even though they are not specific to Wiley and do not reference her. (See Def.âs Mot., Ex. B (âVaughn Indexâ), Does. 3-5; see also In Camera Submission, Docs. 3-5.) Indeed, the only evidence of any distinction is that Wiley was not charged for the processing of her request. (See Wiley Oppân, Ex. A at 5 (explaining that under BBG Privacy Act regulations, âthe first copy of any Agency record regarding information under the Privacy Act is provided free of chargeâ); see also Diaz-Ortiz Decl. ¶ 2.) Wiley also criticizes the search of the files of former security director John Wybenga, whom she named in her FOIA request. She challenges Diaz-Ortizâs statement that she found no responsive documents when, in April 2009, the agency restored Wybengaâs email account to its state prior to deactivation on January 9, 2009. 6 (Wiley Oppân at 16-17, 20-21; see Diaz-Ortiz Decl. ¶ 5.) Wileyâs argument is based on a misreading of the evidence. She contends that Diaz-Ortizâs declaration is undermined by a September 2009 email from OCS official Durika, who wrote that â[a]t this late date there is no way of recovering data deletedâ in January 2009. (Wiley Oppân, Ex. M (âDurika Emailâ) ¶¶ 1, 3.) However, the plain meaning of Durikaâs statement is that in September 2009, OCS could not recover data that was deleted eight months earlier. As Durikaâs email further explains, upon Diaz-Ortizâs April 2009 request to search Wybengaâs files, OCS was indeed able to restore Wybengaâs email account to its pre-deactivation state, but it was unable to restore the individual emails that Wybenga himself had deleted before he left the agency. (See id. ¶ 2.) Thus, Durikaâs email is consistent with Diaz-Ortizâs declaration that the agency searched Wybengaâs restored email account but found no responsive documents. (See Diaz-Ortiz Decl. ¶ 5.) 7 Both plaintiffs also attack, without basis, the declaration by Frederick Lang, an IBB supervisory security specialist, regarding his own search of Wybengaâs files. Lang declared that he searched Wybengaâs âhard copy filesâ; that he requested Tony Ratliff, an IBB information technology specialist, to conduct a search of Wybengaâs computer files using various search terms; and that â[t]his search yielded no *150 responsive documents.... â (Lang Decl. ¶ 3.) Plaintiffs argue that defendant must also produce a declaration by Ratliff himself regarding the electronic search. (Wiley Oppân at 17; AFGEâs Reply in Supp. of Cross-Mot. for Summ. J. at 2.) This is incorrect. â[A]n agency may rely on an affidavit of an agency employee responsible for supervising the search.â Maynard v. C.I.A., 986 F.2d 547, 560 (1st Cir.1993); Carney v. U.S. Depât of Justice, 19 F.3d 807, 814 (2d Cir.1994) (âAn affidavit from an agency employee responsible for supervising a FOIA search is all that is needed to satisfy [the personal knowledge requirement of Federal Rule of Civil Procedure] 56(e); there is no need for the agency to supply affidavits from each individual who participated in the actual search.â); see also Kay v. F.C.C., 976 F.Supp. 23 , 34 n. 29 (D.D.C.1997) (âGenerally, declarations accounting for searches of documents that contain hearsay are acceptable.â), affâd, 172 F.3d 919 (D.C.Cir.1998). Lang is a supervisory official who delegated the electronic search to Ratliff, so Langâs declaration that the search yielded no responsive documents is sufficient. 8 Wiley similarly challenges the search of the emails of George Moore, the former IBB deputy director who passed away in 2007. (See Wiley Oppân at 17.) OCS official Durika declared that upon Mooreâs death, the agency uploaded his emails onto the computer of Barbara Brady, then an advisor to the acting IBB director, but that in April or May 2009, âall data [on Bradyâs computer], including Mr. Mooreâs email, was lostâ due to corruption of the hard drive. (Durika Decl. ¶ 4.) As Wiley notes, Durika did not sign her declaration, so the Court will require defendant to file a signed version of Durikaâs declaration. But contrary to Wileyâs suggestion, Durikaâs declaration, if signed, would be sufficient to establish that Mooreâs email was not available for review. There is also no basis for plaintiffs to criticize the adequacy of the agencyâs search for the records of David Hill, a contract security officer who was the addressed recipient of an August 2004 memo from Wybenga about the new policy regarding unescorted access for holders of retiree badges. (Wiley Oppân at 20; AFGE Oppân at 8; see Wiley Oppân, Ex. H.) Unlike Wybenga, Hill was not named in the underlying FOIA request. Compare FPL Group, Inc. v. I.R.S., 698 F.Supp.2d 66, 72 (D.D.C.2010) (FOIA request named specific offices and employees with whom documents could likely be located). And, there is nothing in the FOIA request that would have indicated that Hill would have been a likely custodian of responsive documents. âThe agency is not required to speculate about potential leads. More specifically, the [agency] is not obliged to look beyond the four corners of the request for leads to the location of responsive documents.â Kowalczyk v. Depât of Justice, 73 F.3d 386, 389 (D.C.Cir. 1996). It was not until plaintiffsâ September 2009 post-litigation correspondence when Hill was first identified as possibly having responsive documents. (See Wiley Oppân, Ex. F at 2 ¶ 7.) This letter cannot expand the agencyâs FOIA obligations. âA reasonable effort to satisfy [a] request *151 does not entail an obligation to search anew based upon a subsequent clarification,â because â[rjequiring an additional search each time the agency receives a letter that clarifies a prior request could extend indefinitely the delay in processing new requests.â Kowalczyk, 73 F.3d at 388 . The adequacy of the search of Hillâs records is therefore irrelevant to the adequacy of the agencyâs FOIA response, 9 and the fact that the agency sought to accommodate plaintiffsâ post-litigation clarification does not expand the underlying request. (See Hargrave Decl. ¶ 6.) 10 Wiley further criticizes the search terms used by the security personnel in July 2009 as âdeficientâ because they did not produce many responsive documents, and she argues that the human resources and legal personnel should not have re-used those search terms in October 2009. (See Wiley Oppân at 18-19.) This argument fails, not least because it presumes incorrectly that a search term is inadequate merely because it did not lead to the discovery of documents; another possibility, of course, is that the searched files contained no responsive documents. 11 Wiley also incorrectly argues that âthe fact that additional responsive documents exist and were not located by [defendant in its records search demonstrates that the search was inadequate.â (Wiley Oppân at 15.) For example, she observes that although the agency produced an email from 2005 on which agency attorneys Elizabeth Parish and Timi Kenealy were purportedly copied, Parish and Kenealyâs *152 searches of their own files did not locate that email. (Id. at 29-30; see id., Ex. P; Parish Decl.; Kenealy Decl.) Whether the agency located all copies of the records sought by plaintiff is not dispositive, for an agencyâs search is not presumed unreasonable because it fails to find every possibly responsive document. See Steinberg v. United States Depât of Justice, 23 F.3d 548, 551 (D.C.Cir.1994) (the question is not âwhether there might exist any other documents possibly responsive to the request, but rather whether the search for those documents was adequateâ). The agency must only demonstrate âthat its search was reasonably calculated to uncover all relevant documents.â The Nation Magazine v. U.S. Customs Serv., 71 F.3d 885, 890 (D.C.Cir.1995) (internal quotation marks omitted). The mere fact that the agency located the 2005 email in an unspecified location does not, on its own, suggest that Parish and Kenealyâs searches were inadequate. 12 By contrast, there is a genuine issue of material fact regarding the adequacy of the search conducted by Michael Lawrence, the BBGâs present director of security. Lawrence declared that he searched his email account (including his sent mail) and other computer files on July 10, 2009, using nine search terms, including âretireesâ and âunescorted access,â but that the search did not yield any responsive documents. (Lawrence Decl. ¶ 2.) Three weeks later on July 28, Lawrence forwarded to Diaz-Ortiz an email that he wrote on March 4, 2009, which used the terms âretireesâ and âunescorted access.â 13 (See Wiley Oppân, Ex. N.) The fact that this email from March was in Lawrenceâs account on July 28 suggests that it was also in his account on July 10. Yet, there is no explanation as to why the July 10 term-based search did not locate the document. This failure raises the possibility that Lawrence may not have conducted his search correctly, and thus creates a genuine issue about âthe sufficiency of the agencyâs identification or retrieval procedureâ with respect to Lawrenceâs files. Weisberg, 627 F.2d at 370 (internal quotation marks omitted). There is also a genuine issue of material fact regarding the adequacy of the search of the agencyâs paper records. (Wiley Oppân at 18, 33; AFGE Oppân at 7.) Defendant states that âBBGâs personnel conducted an electronic search, as well as a paper search for responsive materials.â (Mem. in Supp. of Def.âs Mot. (âDef.âs Mem.â) at 12.) Most declarants described searches of both digital and paper files, but there is no evidence that the paper files of six individuals were ever searched: former IBB deputy director George Moore, human resources director Donna Grace, former general counsel Carol Booker, and attorneys Timi Kenealy, Kataryna Baldwin, and MaryEllen Righi. (See Durika Decl. ¶ 4 (describing search for Mooreâs emails only); Grace Decl. ¶ 2 (describing search of her âcomputer filesâ only); Borum Decl. ¶ 3 (describing search for Bookerâs emails); Hargrave Decl. ¶ 4 (describing search of Bookerâs digital files only); Kenealy Decl. ¶ 2 (describing search of her *153 own and Bookerâs digital files only); Baldwin Deck ¶ 2 (describing search of her own âcomputer filesâ only); Righi Deck ¶ 2 (same).) âIt is well settled that if an agency has reason to know that certain places may contain responsive documents, it is obligated under FOIA to search barring an undue burden.â Valencia-Lucena v. U.S. Coast Guard, 180 F.3d 321, 327 (D.C.Cir.1999). The agencyâs determination that it was worthwhile to search those individualsâ digital files was reason enough to suggest that their paper files might also contain responsive documents. If such paper files exist, the agency is obligated to review them. Finally, there is a genuine issue of material fact regarding the adequacy of the search regarding Item 10 of the FOIA request. (See Wiley Oppân at 22-26; AFGE Oppân at 7.) This item sought information regarding âthe deciding officials who allegedly in August 2004[] voted to restrict retirees from having access to the building unless escorted____â (See FOIA Request at 3.) Although the FOIA request identified this agency entity as the âBuilding Committee,â the evidence shows that the agency understood this to refer to the âBuilding Security Councilâ (âBSCâ). 14 Thus, the request gave the agency âreason to knowâ that the BSCâs records (or those of its members) âmay contain responsive documents.... â Valencictr-Lucena, 180 F.3d at 327 . The declarations by Diaz-Ortiz and the other agency officials do not clarify whether the agency ever searched the records of the BSC or its members. This omission is particularly noteworthy because, other than the FOIA requestâs broad references to âBBG/VOA/IBB management,â the BSC was only one of three BBG entities that were specifically cited in the request. Therefore, defendant is obligated under FOIA to search the records of the BSC or those of its members, or to show that it has already done so. 15 In sum, defendantâs motion is granted with respect to the adequacy of the agencyâs search, except with respect to (1) George Mooreâs emails, given the failure of Carol Durika to sign her declaration, (2) Michael Lawrenceâs emails, given the unexplained failure of his July 10 search term review to locate a responsive email that he apparently later located on July 28, (3) the paper files of Kataryna Baldwin, Carol Booker, Donna Grace, Timi Kenealy, George Moore, and MaryEllen Righi, given that the agencyâs declarations state only that those individualsâ electronic files were searched, and (4) the records of the Building Security Council or its members, given that there is no evidence that those records were ever searched. III. EXEMPTIONS Wiley also challenges the agencyâs withholding and redaction of documents. FOIA requires disclosure of requested âagency records,â see 5 U.S.C. § 552 (a)(3), including â[a]ny reasonably segregable portion of a record,â absent a demonstration by the government that the materials fall within one of nine exemptions. Id. § 552(b); see also Judicial Watch, Inc. v. Depât of Energy, 412 F.3d 125, 128 (D.C.Cir.2005). The agency has invoked Exemptions 2, 5, and 6 to withhold certain documents in their entirety and to partially redact others. (See generally Vaughn Index.) Based on a review of defendantâs legal briefing and in camera submissions, *154 the Court concludes that the agencyâs withholdings and redactions are proper. A. âAgency Recordsâ Wiley contests the agencyâs withholding of the FBI file contained within her security file. (Wiley Oppân at 37.) In correspondence, the agency identified the FBI file as non-responsive on the ground that it was not an âagency recordâ within the meaning of FOIA. (See Diaz-Ortiz Decl. ¶ 6; see In Camera Submission, Doc. 1 (FBI report).) The agency submitted the FBI file for in camera review. In order for a document to be subject to FOIA disclosure, it must be an âagency record.â See 5 U.S.C. § 552 (a)(4)(B). FOIA does not define this term either in the statuteâs text or in its legislative history. See United States Depât of Justice v. Tax Analysts, 492 U.S. 136, 142 , 109 S.Ct. 2841 , 106 L.Ed.2d 112 (1989). â[Documents qualify as âagency recordsâ subject to FOIA disclosure if they are (1) created or obtained by an agency, and (2) in the agencyâs control.â United We Stand America, Inc. v. I.R.S., 359 F.3d 595, 598 (D.C.Cir.2004) (citing Tax Analysts ). Here, it is uncontested that the agency obtained a copy of the FBI file, so the only remaining question is whether the agency has âcontrolâ of the documents. Whether defendant exercises sufficient control over the FBI file to render it an âagency recordâ must be determined by examining â(1) the intent of the documentâs creator to retain or relinquish control over the records; (2) the ability of the agency to use and dispose of the record as it sees fit; (3) the extent to which agency personnel have read or relied upon the document; and (4) the degree to which the document was integrated into the agencyâs record system or files.â Id. at 599 (internal quotation marks omitted). Based on the Courtâs review of the document and statements by the FBI made therein (see In Camera Submission, Doc. 1 at 00003, 00005, 00009, 00019), it is clear from the documentâs face that the FBI did not intend to relinquish control over the records to the BBG or to permit the BBG to use and dispose of the file as it sees fit. The BBG therefore lacks âcontrolâ of the FBI file, and defendant is therefore not obligated to produce it as an âagency record.â B. Exemption 2 Exemption 2 of FOIA exempts from disclosure matters ârelated solely to the internal personnel rules and practices of an agency....â 5 U.S.C. § 552 (b)(2). The exemption âapplies to material used for predominantly internal purposes.â Schiller v. NLRB, 964 F.2d 1205, 1207 (D.C.Cir.1992) (internal quotation marks omitted). âIf the threshold test of predominant internality is met, an agency may withhold the material âby proving that either [1] disclosure may risk circumvention of agency regulation, or [2] the material relates to trivial administrative matters of no genuine public interest.â â Id. (quoting Schwaner v. Depât of Air Force, 898 F.2d 793, 794 (D.C.Cir.1990)). âPredominantly internal documents the disclosure of which would risk circumvention of agency statutes and regulations are protected by the so-called âhigh 2â exemption,â and â[predominantly internal documents that deal with trivial administrative matters fall under the âlow 2â exemption.â Id. The agency has invoked the âhigh 2â exemption with respect to three documents, all of which were reviewed in camera. (See In Camera Submission, Docs. 3-5.) Based on its review of these documents, the Court agrees with defendant and finds that the material withheld under Exemption 2 relate to the internal practices of the agency, specifically âits internal security operating instructions, includ *155 ing instructions BBG security guards are given regarding appropriate security procedure.â (Def.âs Mem. at 15.) These documents are ânot concerned with regulating the behavior of the public, but consists solely of instructions to agency personnelâ and does not âattempt to modify or regulate public behavior....â Crooker v. Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco & Firearms, 670 F.2d 1051, 1073 (D.C.Cir.1981). As defendant argues, disclosure could assist â[pier-sons of interestâ who seek âto alter their pattern of behavior in order to circumvent security procedures in a federal space.â (Def.âs Mem. at 15.) The Court concludes that the agency has met its burden of establishing the applicability of Exemption 2 with respect to these documents. 16 C. Exemption 5 Exemption 5 âprotects from disclosure âinter-agency or intra-agency memorandums or letters which would not be available by law to a party other than an agency in litigation with the agency.â To qualify, a document must thus satisfy two conditions: its source must be a Government agency, and it must fall within the ambit of a privilege against discovery under judicial standards that would govern litigation against the agency that holds it.â Depât of Interior v. Klamath Water Users Protective Assân, 532 U.S. 1, 8 , 121 S.Ct. 1060 , 149 L.Ed.2d 87 (2001) (quoting 5 U.S.C. § 552 (b)(5)). The privileges that are incorporated into Exemption 5 include the attorney-client and deliberative process privileges. See Natâl Labor Relations Bd. v. Sears, Roebuck & Co., 421 U.S. 132, 149 , 95 S.Ct. 1504 , 44 L.Ed.2d 29 (1975). âThe attorney-client privilege protects confidential communications from clients to their attorneys made for the purpose of securing legal advice or services.â Tax Analysts v. Internal Revenue Serv., 117 F.3d 607, 618 (D.C.Cir.1997). The privilege also âprotects communications from attorneys to their clients if the communications ârest on confidential information obtained from the client.â â Id. (quoting In re Sealed Case, 737 F.2d 94, 98-99 (D.C.Cir.1984)). The deliberative process privilege applies to records that are both â âpredeeisionalâ â â ie., âgenerated before the adoption of an agency policyâ â and â âdeliberative,â â â ie., âreflect[ive][of] the give-and-take of the consultative process.â Coastal States Gas Corp. v. Depât of Energy, 617 F.2d 854, 866 (D.C.Cir.1980) (emphasis added). This privilege serves a number of related ends, among them: assuring] that subordinates within an agency will feel free to provide the decisionmaker with their uninhibited opinions and recommendations without fear of later being subject to public ridicule or criticism; ... protecting] against premature disclosure of proposed policies before they have been finally formulated or adopted; and ... protecting] against confusing the issues and misleading the public by dissemination of documents suggesting reasons and rationales for a course of action which were not in fact the ultimate reasons for the agencyâs action. Id. The agency has asserted both privileges to justify the withholding or redaction of *156 sixteen documents, which are âe-mail notes of agency employees taken during the process of making a recommendation or determination regarding security.â (Def.âs Mem. at 16; see Vaughn Index, Docs. 6-21 (asserting attorney-client privilege, deliberative process privilege, or both).) Defendant has invoked Exemption 5 because â[t]hese emails reveal the internal deliberations and preliminary thoughts and approaches of BBG employees in their consideration of Plaintiff Verla Wileyâs request to obtain unescorted access in a federal space.â (Def.âs Mem. at 16-17.) Based on an in camera review of the relevant documents, the Court finds that the agency has properly asserted the attorney-client and deliberative process privileges under Exemption 5. (See In Camera Submission, Docs. 6-21.) 17 D. Exemption 6 Exemption 6 permits the withholding of âpersonnel and medical files and similar files the disclosure of which would constitute a clearly unwarranted invasion of personal privacy....â 5 U.S.C. § 552 (b)(6). In order to evaluate the propriety of withholding information based on privacy concerns, âthe Court must balance the individualâs interest in privacy against the public interest in disclosure.... â Chang v. Depât of Navy, 314 F.Supp.2d 35, 43 (D.D.C.2004). The agency has invoked Exemption 6 to justify the redaction of several emails to remove the name and other information relating to another individual. {See In Camera Submission, Doc. 2.) The agency asserts in the Vaughn Index that âthere is no public interest in [the redacted] information as it is not responsive to the FOIA request and does not shed light on [the] BBGâs performance of its statutory duties.â (Vaughn Index., Doc. 2.) Accordingly, defendant argues that the release of this information âwould shed no light on the operation of [the] BBG and would subject these individualsâ âprivate affairs [to] unnecessary public scrutiny.â â (Def.âs Mem. at 19 (quoting Lepelletier v. F.D.I.C., 164 F.3d 37, 42 (D.C.Cir.1999)).) Wiley does not specifically challenge the agencyâs Exemption 6 redactions. {See Wiley Oppân at 35-37.) âIt is therefore proper to treat defendantâs argument as conceded.â Franklin v. Potter, 600 F.Supp.2d 38, 60 (D.D.C.2009) (citing cases). Based on this concession and the Courtâs review of the relevant emails in camera, the Court grants defendantâs motion as to this issue. 18 CONCLUSION Having considered the pleadings and the entire record herein, and for the foregoing reasons, defendantâs motion for summary judgment is granted except as to (1) George Mooreâs emails, given Carol Durikaâs failure to sign her declaration; (2) Michael Lawrenceâs emails, given the unexplained failure of his July 10 electronic search term review to locate a responsive email that he later located on July 28; (3) the paper files of Kataryna Baldwin, Carol Booker, Donna Grace, Timi Kenealy, George Moore, and MaryEllen Righi, given that the agencyâs declarations state only *157 that those individualsâ electronic files were searched; and (4) the records of the Building Security Council or its members, given that there is no evidence that those records were ever searched. On or before June 17, 2010, defendant shall file a signed version of Durikaâs previously submitted declaration, and a declaration stating that it has correctly searched the email account of Michael Lawrence (including sent mail) for the search terms identified in his declaration; searched the paper files of Baldwin, Booker, Grace, Kenealy, Moore, and Righi; and searched the records of the Building Security Council (or those of its members) for documents responsive to the FOIA request. With respect to the four groups of records described above, defendantâs motion and plaintiffsâ cross-motions for summary judgment will be held in abeyance pending the agencyâs submission of the relevant declarations. In all other respects, defendantâs motion and plaintiffsâ cross-motions are denied. A separate order accompanies this Memorandum Opinion. 1 . The complaint characterizes the request as one made by both Wiley and the union. (CompM 6.) 2 . Local Civil Rule 7(h) requires that oppositions to a motion for summary judgment "shall be accompanied by a separate concise statement of genuine issues setting forth all material facts as to which it is contended there exists a genuine issue necessary to be litigated, which shall include references to the parts of the record relied on to support the statement.â Local Civ. R.P. 7(h). AFGE did not file such a statement of disputed facts. Accordingly, the Court may assume that AFGE has admitted each factual assertion in defendantâs statement of material facts. See id. By contrast, although Wiley did not file a separate statement of disputed facts, her memorandum in opposition to defendantâs motion does specifically dispute many parts of defendantâs statement of facts. (See generally Wiley Oppân at 11-18.) Unlike AFGE, Wiley is proceeding pro se. Thus, to the extent that her factual disputes are supported by record citations, the Court will liberally construe her filings as compliant with Rule 7(h). 3 . With respect to Item 4, defendant asserted that the documents being produced were excerpted from materials covered by Exemption 2 as "predominantly internalâ documents, but that "[w]ithout waiving Exemption [2], the agency does not see foreseeable harm in releasing the portion that addresses retiree access and visitor access.â (Wiley Opp'n, Ex. A. at 2.) The letter also stated that several relevant documents were directives issued by other agencies, and therefore did not constitute records that BBG was obligated to disclose under FOIA; however, defendant did provide Wiley with contact information for the relevant agenciesâ FOIA officers. (Id.) 4 . In the Courtâs view, the incidents cited by Wiley "suggest not bad faith, but rather that the [agency] was cooperating with [her] by ... responding to [her] inquiries, conducting numerous additional searches, and producing records when error was discovered.ââ Meeropol v. Meese, 790 F.2d 942, 953 (D.C.Cir. 1986). 5 . Wiley has made some arguments that AFGE has not. 6 . The account was deleted following Wybengaâs departure from the agency. 7 . Wiley notes that Diaz-Ortiz's declaration does not specify what search terms she used when searching Wybenga's restored files. (Wiley Oppân at 17.) This is immaterial, as Durika's email clarifies that the restored mailbox contained only "a few broadcast messagesâ because Wybenga had âcleared out his mailbox before leaving.â (Durika Email ¶ 2.) 8 . Wiley also suggests that Langâs search of Wybenga's paper files was inadequate, since defendant subsequently located Wybenga's August 2004 memo to Hill. (See Wiley Opp'n at 15.) First, Wiley has no factual basis upon which to argue that the agency located this memo in Wybenga's paper files. Second, even if the memo had been located among those files, the mere fact that Lang did not locate a single-page memo when reviewing Wybenga's hard copy documents does not demonstrate the unreasonableness of the agencyâs search methodology. 9 . For these same reasons, the agency was also not obligated to search the ten agency officials first named in AFGEâs post-litigation letter of October 22, 2009, simply because plaintiffs identified those individuals at that time. (AFGE Oppân at 6-7; see Wiley Oppân, Ex. G at 2 ¶ 5.) 10 . Even if the agency were required to search Hill's records in response to Wileyâs request, Hargrave's declaration demonstrates that the search of Hill's files was adequate. (See Hargrave Decl. ¶ 6.) There is no merit to plaintiffs' suggestion that Hill himself must submit a declaration (Wiley Oppân at 20; AFGE Opp'n at 8), because Hargrave was supervising the search. See Maynard, 986 F.2d at 560 ; Carney, 19 F.3d at 814 . 11 . Wiley also criticizes, to no avail, the fact that many of the agencyâs declarants did not search for the terms "security riskâ or "AFGE.â (Wiley Oppân at 26.) However, her FOIA request âdoes not set forth a discrete list of search terms, and even if [she] had included such a list, there is no bright-line rule requiring agencies to use the search terms proposed in a FOIA request.â Physicians for Human Rights v. U.S. Dep't of Defense, 675 F.Supp.2d 149, 163-64 (D.D.C. 2009). "FOIA, requiring as it does both systemic and case-specific exercises of discretion and administrative judgment and expertise, is hardly an area in which the courts should attempt to micro manage the executive branch.â Johnson v. Executive Office for U.S. Attorneys, 310 F.3d 771, 776 (D.C.Cir.2002). Moreover, the FOIA items that used the phrases "security riskâ or "AFGEâ were all narrowed to issues relating to Wiley herself or to retirees. (See FOIA Request at 2-3 (Items 1, 2, 3, 5, 8, and 12).) The agencyâs declarations indicate that every digital file search used the term "Wiley,â and many searched also used the term "retirees.â Plaintiffs' argument that the search was inadequate because different officials used different terms when searching their own files is also unpersuasive. (Wiley Oppân at 26-30; AFGE Opp'n at 7 (discussing Donna Grace).) Not only did Wileyâs original request fail to suggest specific search terms, but given that many of the declarants play different roles within the agency, there is no basis to doubt that defendant "properly exercised [its] discretion in crafting lists of search terms that [it] believed to be reasonably tailored to uncover documents responsive to the FOIA request. ... [I]n responding to a FOIA request, an agency is only held to a standard of reasonableness; as long as this standard is met, a court need not quibble over every perceived inadequacy in an agencyâs response, however slight.â Physicians for Human Rights, 675 F.Supp.2d at 164 . 12 . There is also no genuine issue of material fact regarding the adequacy of the search conducted by Harinder Jaiswal, chief of the agency's labor and employee relations division. (See Wiley Opp'n at 30.) Both Jaiswal and agency attorney Hargrave declared that Jaiswal located documents related to âa grievanceâ filed by AFGE, so any discrepancy in their declarations regarding the year the grievance was filed is not material. (See Jaiswal Decl. ¶ 4; Hargrave Decl. ¶ 3.) 13 . The agency has produced this July 2009 email, which contains the forwarded March 2009 email. (See Vaughn Index, Doc. 2; Wiley Opp'n, Ex. N.) 14 . Some officials searched their files for the term "building security councilâ in July 2009, before plaintiffs' post-litigation correspondence specifically referenced the BSC. (See, e.g., Lawrence Deck ¶ 2.) 15 . The agency has not argued that the security personnel who submitted declarations were members of the BSC. 16 . "[D]istricl courts are obligated to consider segregability issues sua sponte even when the parties have not specifically raised such claims.â North v. U.S. Depât of Justice, 658 F.Supp.2d 163, 170 (D.D.C.2009) (citing Trans-Pac. Policing Agreement v. U.S. Customs Serv., 177 F.3d 1022, 1028 (D.C.Cir.1999)). Based on the Court's in camera review of the documents withheld under Exemption 2, the Court concludes that "the agency has produced all 'reasonably segregable' responsive portions of the documents at issue.â Physicians for Human Rights, 675 F.Supp.2d at 170 (citing Armstrong v. Executive Office of the President, 97 F.3d 575, 578 (D.C.Cir. 1996)). 17 . The Court also rejects Wileyâs challenge to defendantâs Exemption 5 redactions as overbroad. {See Wiley Opp'n at 35-36.) Based on the Court's in camera review of the relevant documents, the Court concludes that defendant has satisfied its obligations to segregate exempt material from nonexempt material. {See also Diaz-Ortiz Decl. ¶ 10.) 18 . Based on the Court's in camera review of the documents redacted under Exemption 6, the Court concludes that the agency has produced all reasonably segregable responsive portions of the documents at issue. See supra note 16. Case Information
- Court
- D.D.C.
- Decision Date
- May 18, 2010
- Status
- Precedential