Human rights activists and immigration lawyers are concerned over a new policy allowing Customs and Border Protection to withhold certain agency-related information from the public. - NBCLatino
"Transparency goes hand in hand with accountability," Rizzo said, adding that the new rule"does leave a potential for gaps of information."
The new policy will likely make it harder to pinpoint"where that guidance is coming from" if officers' names are to be redacted from certain FOIA requests, she said. CBP's"security agency" designation came as a way of"protecting CBP employees' information" after the agency and the Department of Homeland Security"became aware of a Twitter account posting employee information" commonly found through OPM releases of salary information for federal employees, an agency spokesperson said.
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