{"id":9323,"date":"2013-08-23T07:18:28","date_gmt":"2013-08-23T07:18:28","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"-0001-11-30T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"2013-08-23T07:18:28","slug":"en-US","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/?p=9323","title":{"rendered":"NLJ: Sixth Circuit Sides With FBI Against Profiling Fears"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>NLJ: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.law.com\/jsp\/nlj\/PubArticleNLJ.jsp?id=1202616673461&amp;Sixth_Circuit_Sides_With_FBI_Against_Profiling_Fears#ixzz2cn2rrMIg\">Sixth Circuit Sides With FBI Against Profiling Fears<\/a> by Sheri Qualters:<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>A federal appeals court has upheld the FBI\u2019s refusal to release records about the agency\u2019s use of racial and ethnic demographic data in Michigan against fears the agency might be engaging in racial profiling.<\/p>\n<p>The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit said that the FBI appropriately withheld the records under an exemption covering law enforcement information that could hamper enforcement proceedings if released. In this case, the information involved the agency\u2019s methods of selecting demographic data to analyze and its analysis of that data.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cOur intelligence and law-enforcement agencies are awash in a sea of data, much of it public, so a choice to focus on a particular slice of that data directly reveals a targeting priority, and indirectly reveals the methodologies and data used to make that selection. There is no way to release certain types of public information without showing the FBI selection process,\u201d Judge Danny Boggs wrote, joined by Judge David McKeague and Southern District of Ohio Judge Sandra Beckwith, sitting by designation.<\/p>\n<p>According to the ACLU, the FBI collects information about and maps \u201cso-called racial and ethnic behaviors, lifestyle characteristics and cultural traditions and ethnic-oriented businesses in communities with concentrated ethnic populations.\u201d The organization sought assurances the agency wasn\u2019t conducting racial profiling.<\/p>\n<p>Ruling on Wednesday in American Civil Liberties Union of Michigan v. FBI, the Sixth Circuit affirmed Eastern District of Michigan Judge Lawrence Zatkoff\u2019s September 2012 summary judgment for the FBI.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>b2evALnk.b2WPAutP <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/?p=9323\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"pingsdone","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9323","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9323","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=9323"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9323\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=9323"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=9323"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=9323"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}