Breaking News: *Uncensored* version of Justice Dept Workforce Study

[ChompySnack]

This was locked in LBN, I assume because VolcanoJen didn't really read it. The censored study itself is old, but the fact that we now have the study uncensored has not even registered on most news media yet. Just slashdot.org.

I am leaving it up to her to re-instate this article in LBN...

>>> With no notice, the Justice Department recently posted to its Website a long-awaited report. Justice spent $2 million for a study on the racial and gender diversity of its attorney workforce. The report has been complete for almost two years, but the Department stalled its release, despite numerous Freedom of Information Act requests.

The report appeared on one of the FOIA sections of the Department's Website sometime in October. It's one of the most heavily-redacted government documents in recent memory. Even Congress' report on 9/11 had a smaller percentage of its contents blacked out. The Memory Hole has posted a version with no redactions; instead, those sections are highlighted in yellow, so you can easily zoom in on the parts originally deemed too embarassing for us to see.

http://www.thememoryhole.org/feds/doj-attorney-diversity.htm


So apparently when they released the file with sections "blacked out" they did it by just overlaying black squares on the PDF document, and not actually deleting the contents of the report.

I'm so glad that Republicans are stupid.

[Deb]

1. This is a report on discrimination at the DOJ

How about posting it in the Civil Rights/Equality/Privacy forum so it doesn't get lost?

[Zhade]

2. Go over redacted docs with a program called Adobe Pitstop...

From what I understand, this removes these 'redactions' quite well!