Meryl Sue Baker v. Department of the Navy

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• noting that this definition “makes coverage under the Act dependent upon the method of retrieval of a record rather than its substantive content”
• agency guidelines, regulations and case law “provide overwhelming support for using a record’s method of retrievability to determine the scope of accessibility”
• “The statutory language therefore suggests that the scope of accessibility and the scope of amendment are coextensive. The Privacy Commission corroborates that the statutory language requires this conclusion.”
• “an individual’s ability to obtain access to a record ... because of personal knowledge of its existence in a certain file, will not provide that individual with access to the record or to any remedies under the Privacy Act,” unless the record is individually keyed to the requester

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).