Carl Stern v. Federal Bureau of Investigation

How courts have described this case

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• holding that public interest based only on \a general notion of public servant accountability\ does not necessarily require disclosure
• recognizing that a government “employee has at least a minimal privacy interest in his or her employment history and job performance evaluations”
• noting that a senior FBI official had less of a privacy interest than lower level employees under his supervision who might have simply been following orders
• finding that court decisions regarding Exemption 6 are directly relevant to identifying privacy interests at stake in the analysis under Exemption 7(C)
• finding that an employee has at least a minimal privacy interest in his employment history and performance evaluations
• determining that government agents who were censured but not criminally charged had a privacy interest in avoiding “embarrassment or stigma” that would arise from the release of their identities

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