Government
Jun. 6, 2017
White House visitor logs should remain open to public
Officials recently announced that President Donald Trump will not be continuing the policy of disclosing White House visitor logs. This despite a letter penned by eight U.S. senators urging Trump and the Secret Service to release the logs.
Duffy Carolan
Partner
Jassy Vick Carolan LLP
601 Montgomery St Ste 850
San Francisco , CA 94111-2665
Phone: (415) 539-3399
Fax: (415) 539-3394
Email: dcarolan@jassyvick.com
U of San Francisco School of Law
Duffy regularly litigates access to public records under the FOIA and state counterpart as part of her media law practice.
FIRST & FOREMOST
The records system used to track visitors to the White House is maintained by the Secret Service, a component of the U.S. Department of Homeland Security, an agency fully subject to the Federal Freedom of Information Act (FOIA).
In 2009, then-President Barack H. Obama announced that visitor logs, including the names of visitors, the dates and times they entered and left the Wh...
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