FOIA
Exemptions
A request
for records may be denied if the requested record contains information which falls
into one or more of the nine categories listed below. If the requested record
contains both exempt and nonexempt information, the nonexempt portions, which
may reasonably be segregated from the exempt portions, will be released to the
requester. Categories of Exempt Information
- Exemption
1: Those records properly and currently classified in the interest of national
defense or foreign policy, as specifically authorized under criteria established
by an Executive order.
- Exemption 2: Records related solely
to the internal personnel rules and practices of FCSIC, including matters which
are for the guidance of agency personnel.
- Exemption 3:
Records specifically exempted from disclosure by statute which permits no discretion
on the issue.
- Exemption 4: Records containing commercial
or financial information obtained from any person or organization that is privileged
or confidential.
- Exemption 5: Inter-agency or intra-agency
memoranda or letters which would not be available by law to a party in litigation
with FCSIC.
- Exemption 6: Personnel and similar files, the
disclosure of which would constitute a clearly unwarranted invasion of personal
privacy.
- Exemption 7: Records or information compiled
for law enforcement purposes, but only to the extent that the production of such
law enforcement records or information:
a. Could reasonably be expected
to interfere with enforcement proceedings; b. Would deprive a person
of a right to a fair trial or an impartial adjudication; c. Could
reasonably be expected to constitute an unwarranted invasion of personal privacy; d.
Could reasonably be expected to disclose the identity of a confidential source,
including a State, local, or foreign agency or authority or any private institution
which furnished information on a confidential basis, and, in the case of a record
or information compiled by criminal law enforcement authority in the course of
a criminal investigation or by an agency conducting a lawful national security
intelligence investigation, information furnished by a confidential source; e.
Would disclose techniques and procedures for law enforcement investigations or
prosecutions, or would disclose guidelines for law enforcement investigations
or prosecutions if such disclosure could reasonably be expected to risk circumvention
of the law; or f. Could reasonably be expected to endanger the life
or physical safety of any individual.
Exemption 8:
Records of or related to examination, operation, reports of condition and performance,
or reports of or related to Farm Credit System institutions or institutions that
are regulated and/or examined by FCA that are prepared by, on behalf of, or for
the Agency's use.
Exemption 9: Geological and geophysical
information and data, including maps, concerning wells.
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