The Secret Service need not disclose recent logs of White House visitors
since it would effectively reveal the president's calendar, the D.C.
Circuit ruled.
Through its White House Access Control System (WHACS), the Secret Service keeps a record of every person's entrance and exit into the White House complex, which includes the White House, the Eisenhower Executive Office Building, the surrounding grounds and the New Executive Office Building.
In 2009, the government watchdogs at Judicial Watch had asked the Secret Service for the past seven months' worth of "all official visitors logs and/or other records concerning visits made to the White House."
The Secret Service denied the request, claiming that such logs are not subject to the Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) but rather the far more restrictive Presidential Records Act (PRA).
It referred Judicial Watch to the White House's voluntary disclosure policy implemented that same year, which discloses all nonsensitive WHACS records 90 to 120 days after they are made.
http://www.courthousenews.com/2013/09/04/60839.htm
Through its White House Access Control System (WHACS), the Secret Service keeps a record of every person's entrance and exit into the White House complex, which includes the White House, the Eisenhower Executive Office Building, the surrounding grounds and the New Executive Office Building.
In 2009, the government watchdogs at Judicial Watch had asked the Secret Service for the past seven months' worth of "all official visitors logs and/or other records concerning visits made to the White House."
The Secret Service denied the request, claiming that such logs are not subject to the Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) but rather the far more restrictive Presidential Records Act (PRA).
It referred Judicial Watch to the White House's voluntary disclosure policy implemented that same year, which discloses all nonsensitive WHACS records 90 to 120 days after they are made.
http://www.courthousenews.com/2013/09/04/60839.htm
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