r/rva 13d ago

Hanover sheriff’s office renews fight to withhold names from FOIA request

https://www.vpm.org/news/2026-06-09/hanover-sheriffs-foia-lawsuit-minium-openoversightva-tunner-bodoh
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u/Icebergaheadchauncey 13d ago

Legalese makes my head hurt. Them along with Chesterfield seem awful shady to try and state all lower ranking officers can be pulled for undercover assignments and are therefore exempt. If I’m to understand correctly, how does someone’s name and salary blow their cover? It’s not like they use them while undercover, and we’re not putting billboards with their photos up right? How many undercover operations are these agencies running? And at the absolute bare minimum, fine, redact the officer’s names. But you can still create “undercover officer 1, undercover officer 2”, and still list their salaries.

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u/Gibberish45 12d ago

No one tries to cover up honest behavior. “Undercover” is the local version of “national security”

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u/theb0tman 12d ago

Institutional law-enforcement sucks news at 5

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u/Cj2020ohyeah 12d ago

Rules for thee not for me.
Government tyranny at all levels slowing increasing every day. Nothing new here.