Law Enforcement Records on George Gibney, Plus a Job Offer to Him, Among Documents Still Being Withheld by the Federal Government As My FOIA Case Proceeds in San Francisco Federal Court

The U.S. government today filed its motion for summary judgment in Muchnick v. Department of Homeland Security – my lawsuit under the Freedom of Information Act to force the public release of George Gibney’s American immigration records.

Accompanying the brief is a 27-page document known as a “Vaughn Index,” which lists withheld documents and explains the defendant’s claims of privacy exemptions for them under FOIA. The Vaughn Index shows that of the 40 Gibney documents remaining in dispute (totaling 82 pages), at least five of the documents (covering a total of eight pages) are law enforcement records.

The original 50 documents and 98 pages were whittled down in pre-motion negotiations between my attorney, Roy S. Gordet, and the U.S. attorney’s office. The parties also set a briefing and oral argument schedule for both the government’s motion for summary judgment and our own competing motion for summary judgment. The latter is currently slated to be filed next month.

I’ve uploaded the Vaughn Index at http://muchnick.net/vaughnindex.pdf. Highlights:

• The descriptions of the five law enforcement records have few specifics. We don’t know their dates or which police agencies generated them.

• Document 34 is described as a “Nine Page report prepared by an independent investigator dated 3/18/2010.” This was approximately 15 years after Irish national Gibney entered this country with a visa, and more than a decade after he was fired as a swimming coach in the Denver area following revelations about the criminal allegations and Murphy Commission findings of his sexual misconduct before and during his time as head coach of the Irish Olympic swimming team.

• Document 26 is described as a “3 page record of biometric background check prepared by Federal law enforcement.”

• Document 39 is a “Job offer from a private employer.”

My original FOIA request to Homeland Security’s U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services had resulted in the production of a 102-page Gibney file – 98 pages of which were withheld in their entirety by the government on various privacy grounds. The four pages that the government did produce, a printout from a child watch group chronicling the sexual abuse allegations against Gibney on two continents, can be viewed at http://muchnick.net/gibneychildwatch.pdf.

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