Policy Positions

Letter Supporting the Open and Responsive Government Act (S. 2220)

On September 19, 2019, CfA joined 34 other organizations in endorsing the Open and Responsive Government Act (S. 2220), which would codify the primary holding of Nat’l Parks & Conservation Ass’n v. Morton that commercial information is exempt as “confidential” under FOIA’s exemption 4 only if disclosure of the information is likely to cause substantial harm to the competitive position of the person from whom the information was obtained.