DISB 2012-5

Summary:

Request for documents relating to the foreclosure mediation process. The agency failed to show it made an adequate search. The attorney-client privilege does not apply if the attorney is not employed by the government as an attorney. A sufficient privacy interest in personal employee information, not outweighed by the public interest.   

Exemption/Issue:

Adequate search;

D.C. Official Code § 2-534(a)(4)(attorney-
client privilege);

D.C. Official Code § 2-534(a)(2)(privacy)     

Disposition:

Upheld in part and reversed and remanded in part