Journalists Win Attorneys’ Fees After FBI Records Fight

A journalist and a publicist who went to court to fight for access to records about the Federal Bureau of Investigation are entitled to attorneys’ fees, a federal appeals court ruled Aug. 14.

Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist Daniel Golden and publicist Tracy Locke were conducting research for the book Spy Schools: How the CIA, FBI, and Foreign Intelligence Secretly Exploit America’s Universities. They submitted a series of records requests to the New Jersey Institute of Technology under New Jersey’s Open Public Records Act. Most of the documents they sought originated from the FBI.

NJIT’s custodian of records asked the FBI ...