A federal appeals court has upheld the FBI’s refusal to release records about the agency’s use of racial and ethnic demographic data in Michigan against fears the agency might be engaging in racial profiling.
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’s methods of selecting demographic data to analyze and its analysis of that data.
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