COMMISSION EXPECTED TO REJECT TELCO'S CHALLENGE TO FOIA DISCLOSURE

摘要

The FCC commissioners probably will vote on an order related to a Freedom of Information Act request ahead of this week's agenda meeting, a commission official told us. The commissioners probably will vote 5-0 to reject Fusion Telecommunications' challenge to an order granting an FOIA request by Wall Street Journal reporter Mary O'Grady, the official said. O'Grady, researching Haitian President Jean Bertrand Aristide's finances, asked the FCC for international traffic-tariff material on Fusion. When the FCC found it didn't have the information, it asked Fusion to file it. Fusion complied but asked the agency to keep the material confidential. The FCC gave O'Grady the information, saying it should be public.