U.S. Department of Justice
Civil Division
________________________________________________________________________
Washington, DC 20530

Via email

March 2, 2020

Mr. Austin Evers
American Oversight
1030 15th Street NW
Suite B255
Washington, DC 20005
foia@americanoversight.org

Request No.

145-FOI-17266
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Dear Mr. Evers:
This letter is the response of the Civil Division, Department of Justice to your Freedom of
Information Act (FOIA) request for records concerning non-disclosure agreements that restrict
current and former officials to disclose information obtained through government service. This
Office received your request on February 10, 2020.
After a search of the Civil Division’s records, this Office could locate no responsive
records subject to the FOIA in its files. Accordingly, this Office is closing your request at this
time.
For your information, Congress excluded three discrete categories of law enforcement
and national security records from the requirements of the FOIA. See 5 U.S.C. § 552(c) (2015)
(Amended 2016). This response is limited to those records that are subject to the requirements
of the FOIA. This is a standard notification that we give to all our requesters. You should not
take it as an indication that excluded records do, or do not, exist.
You may contact our FOIA Public Liaison at 202-514-2319 for any further assistance and
to discuss any aspect of your request. Additionally, you may contact the Office of Government
Information Services (OGIS) at the National Archives and Records Administration to inquire
about the FOIA mediation services they offer. The contact information for OGIS is as follows:
Office of Government Information Services, National Archives and Records Administration,
Room 2510, 8601 Adelphi Road, College Park, Maryland 20740-6001, e-mail at ogis@nara.gov;
telephone at 202-741-5770; toll free at 1-877-684-6448; or facsimile at 202-741-5769.
If you are not satisfied with the Civil Division’s determination in response to this request,
you may administratively appeal by writing to the Director, Office of Information Policy (OIP),
United States Department of Justice, 441 G Street, NW, 6th Floor, Washington, DC 20530-0001,
or you may submit an appeal through OIP's FOIA STAR portal by creating an account on the
following website: https://foiastar.doj.gov. Your appeal must be postmarked or electronically
transmitted within 90 days of the date of my response to your request. If you submit your appeal

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Sincerely,

Hirsh D. Kravitz
Senior Supervisory FOIA Counsel
Office of FOIA, Records, and E-Discovery

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