Watch: https://youtu.be/Meske8JKQEE
What are the nine main exemptions to FOIA (and similar state access laws)?
Regarding other laws which bear on FOIA and feed into its exceptions, why is “FERPA” one of your best friends as a UMUC student? Is it the same as “HIPAA”—protecting you from intrusion and media access? What happens if the UMUC or a hospital or your pharmacy starting selling your information to data miners, or Google? Recall, the SCOTUS has already stated that even though commercial speech has a low level of scrutiny when the government/state wants to limit it, the government was prevented from telling pharmacy chains like Walgreen’s that they couldn’t sell some information to drug marketers. (Do you recall the name of the case from the previous weeks? It goes hand in hand with what the Roberts court is doing, using the First Amendment as a tool to free corporations/business from government regulation).
Let’s say you want do you a Web TV documentary on sexual assault and rape in the US military, and what the Pentagon does and doesn’t do, as well as the plight of the victims–what barriers might you run into?
