SEC FOIA Notice: Three Exclusions

The SEC announced that it is authorized to treat records as not subject to the requirements of the FOIA under the following three circumstances:

• (c)(1) Exclusion: Where the subject of a criminal investigation or proceeding is unaware of the existence of records concerning a pending investigation and disclosure of such records would interfere with the investigation.
• (c)(2) Exclusion: Where there are informant records maintained by a criminal law enforcement agency and the individual's status as an informant is not known.
• (c)(3) Exclusion: Where there are classified FBI records pertaining to foreign intelligence, counterintelligence or international terrorism records.

View notice in full here (links externally to SEC website).