The Drug Enforcement Administration must turn over to a journalist surveillance footage of a drug seizure in Honduras that left four civilians dead, a federal judge ruled Tuesday.
Eastern District Judge Carol Bagley Amon said law enforcement exceptions to the Freedom of Information Act did not prevent disclosure in this case. She ordered the DEA to provide the footage to Mattathias Schwartz, a staff writer at The New Yorker, but required certain limitations and on-screen redactions after reviewing the 2012 recording in camera.
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