"'Thus far, the Defendant has sought to delay document production, and when pressed by this Court to act, Defendant has produced only sanitized email threads,' Arthur Belendiuk, attorney for advocacy group Frequency Forward and journalist Nina Burleigh, who together filed the Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) request for FCC documents, wrote in a new filing to the court. 'The evidence clearly demonstrates that the FCC has acted in bad faith by withholding documents responsive to Plaintiffs' FOIA request.'"
"One year and nearly 2,000 pages of documents later, a group suing to uncover what the Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) was doing at the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) says the agency has withheld relevant documents "in bad faith" and is asking a court to allow discovery and depositions to draw out the information."
An advocacy group and a journalist allege that the Federal Communications Commission withheld documents responsive to a Freedom of Information Act request concerning the Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE). The plaintiffs filed the FOIA request to examine any potential conflict of interest involving Elon Musk as DOGE's public face and the FCC's regulation of SpaceX. The plaintiffs say the FCC produced nearly 2,000 pages over a year but withheld relevant materials and provided only sanitized email threads. The plaintiffs' attorney argues the agency acted in bad faith and asks the court to permit discovery and depositions to obtain withheld records.
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