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This week’s FOIA round-up: Judge rules that Trump’s transition team emails are not subject to release under FOIA, and ICE’s internal documents show tactics, arrest quotas
In this week’s FOIA round-up, a federal judge ruled that Trump transition team emails are not subject to release, documents reveal years of Immigration and Customs Enforcement raid tactics, and a recently released report showed federal agents feared riots by migrants who were being held in overcrowded and unsanitary cells. Meanwhile, in Montana, the state supreme court ruled that a university player’s privacy rights as a student outweigh the public’s right to know.
And belated happy birthday to FOIA, signed 53 years ago this week by President Lyndon Johnson in 1966.

Over two-thirds of all Title IX cases that have ever been resolved were a result of guidelines Betsy DeVos just rescinded
A recently-released list of all closed Title IX complaints regarding sexual assault at postsecondary institutions shows that over two-thirds of all cases that have ever been resolved came after the 2011 Dear Colleague letter was introduced - making Secretary of Education Betsy DeVos’ decision to rescind those guidelines all the more frustrating.

Emails offer glimpse at UVA’s Rolling Stone fallout
Emails obtained through a request to the Charlottesville Police department show University of Virginia president Teresa Sullivan emailed shortly after Rolling Stone’s “A Rape on Campus,”, asking for an investigation into the assault described in the story.
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Index of Sexual Violence Related Title IX Voluntary Resolution Agreements
Dana Bolger sent this request to the Department of Education, Office of Civil Rights of the United States of America
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U of WA Investigation Findings
Meesh Weil sent this request to the University of Washington of Washington