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EPA acknowledges releasing personal details on farmers, senator slams agency

Posted on April 10, 2013 by Dissent

Joseph Weber reports:

The Environmental Protection Agency acknowledged Tuesday that it released personal information on potentially thousands of farmers and ranchers to environmental groups, following concerns from congressional Republicans and agriculture groups that the release could endanger their safety.

Read more on FoxNews.  The information released reportedly included the names, postal and email addresses, and telephone numbers of 80,000 ranchers and farmers. Why the agency had a database like that at all is one question. Another question is what they consider “sensitive information,” because

According to a document obtained by FoxNews.com, the EPA said “some of the personal information that could have been protected … was released.” Though the EPA has already sent out the documents, the agency now says it has since redacted sensitive details and asked the environmental groups to “return the information.”

So what “sensitive details” are they now redacting?

Actually, I’m not clear on whether the EPA actually did anything wrong at all in responding to a FOI request. But there’s probably a lot more to this story than I know about at this time.

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