An American who says he was busted on a bogus marijuana charge during a
trip to Egypt won't be able to get his hands on TSA records that might
reveal how he made it onto the agency's watch list, a federal judge
ruled.
U.S. District Judge Emmet Sullivan ruled that the Department of Homeland Security and its Transportation Security Administration won't have to give up the information under exemption three of the Freedom of Information Act, which allows the government to withhold information protected by federal statute.
Ryan Skurow sued Homeland Security and the TSA in 2011 for denying his FOIA request. Skurow says he traveled to Israel in 1998 as a tourist with friends, but the group was busted for marijuana possession by Egyptian police during an excursion trip to the Sinai Peninsula. He and his friends were tried without counsel, fined $200 and returned to Israel, but since then Skurow says he's been detained multiple times in American airports. On one occasion, he was told by a customs officer that his name is on a watch list as a result of his 1998 arrest.
Read more: http://www.courthousenews.com/2012/09/28/50756.htm
U.S. District Judge Emmet Sullivan ruled that the Department of Homeland Security and its Transportation Security Administration won't have to give up the information under exemption three of the Freedom of Information Act, which allows the government to withhold information protected by federal statute.
Ryan Skurow sued Homeland Security and the TSA in 2011 for denying his FOIA request. Skurow says he traveled to Israel in 1998 as a tourist with friends, but the group was busted for marijuana possession by Egyptian police during an excursion trip to the Sinai Peninsula. He and his friends were tried without counsel, fined $200 and returned to Israel, but since then Skurow says he's been detained multiple times in American airports. On one occasion, he was told by a customs officer that his name is on a watch list as a result of his 1998 arrest.
Read more: http://www.courthousenews.com/2012/09/28/50756.htm
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