A slew of social media pages are using FOIA requests to retrieve footage of rappers in police custody
The Freedom of Information Act was originally part of the Administrative Procedure Act in 1946 but was amended as a solitary congressional act in 1966. The FOIA was enacted to require governmental agencies to disclose information upon request, to, in theory, allow reporters to hold them accountable. While the FOIA is mostly regarded as a tool for the media,on a 2017 data analysis revealing that journalists made up just 7.
While the FOIA is a necessary civic tool to attempt to keep police departments and public agencies honest, the ease of access allows some, like rap blogs and YouTube pages, to retrieve information for profit. In that manner, Beryl Lipton says that the dynamic could be perceived as exploitative of incarcerated people.criminal justice
system,” Lipton says. “There’s good reason why there is due process. There’s also good reason why people have the right to be judged by a jury of their peers. But as we know, there are restrictions around who that jury of peers can be, [including] certain biases that the average entertainment consumer is not trying to be aware of because they’re just trying to satisfy these urges.”
Lipton, who says she’s put in over 10,000 FOIA requests in her career, says requesters aren’t required to divulge what they intend to use the information for. And although every FOIA request is supposed to be fulfilled, she says agencies are less apt to condemn themselves. “Police departments and prisons are notoriously difficult to get certain videos from,” she says. “That doesn’t mean that they won’t release certain videos.
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