Electronic Privacy Information Center v. United States Department of Homeland Security

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• holding document satisfied threshold requirement where it was developed after 2005 bombings in London \to address deficiencies in the United States' ability to address and respond to such threats\
• finding that an emergency protocol passed Exemption 7’s threshold test because it “was created to prevent crime and keep people safe, which qualify as law enforcement purposes”
• noting that district courts must review de novo the agency’s justification for non- disclosure
• noting that “the phrase ‘any individual’” makes clear that Exemption 7(F) now shields the life or physical safety of any person, not only the law enforcement personnel protected under the pre–1986 version of the statute”
• protocol codifying plan for shutting down wireless service during emergencies qualified as record compiled for law enforcement 10 purposes
• “Our consideration of Exemption 7(F)’s scope begins and ends with its text.” (citing Milner, 562 U.S. at 569)

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