State v. Bellitto

How courts have described this case

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• holding that government employees’ “interest against possible harassment and embarrassment ... raises a measurable privacy concern that must be weighed against the public’s interest in disclosure”
• recognizing that “the records at issue are highly detailed and contain personal information about the subjects of the investigation—the Connecticut FBI agents accused of misrepresenting search warrant information”
• holding that Exemption 6 authorized the Justice Department to redact the names of investigating per- sonnel from an administrative investigation report detailing the discipline of two FBI agents
• holding that Exemption 6 permitted redaction of the names of low-level FBI employees who participated in investigation because public interest was insufficiently furthered relative to the potential for harassment
• holding that government employees’ “interest against possible harassment and embarrassment . . . raises a measurable privacy concern that must be weighed against the public’s interest in disclo- sure”
• holding that “any personal information contained in files similar to medical and personnel files, including the type of highly detailed records found in investigative files, is subject to the balancing analysis under Exemption 6”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).