FCC Sued Over Sinclair Consent Decree FOIA
A California freelance journalist is suing the FCC over a Freedom of Information Act request for documents Sinclair submitted to the agency as part of last year's $48 million consent decree for its now-killed Tribune Media purchase (see 2005060063). In…
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her complaint (docket 21-cv-00895, in Pacer) Thursday in U.S. District Court in Washington, Susan Wilson Cowan alleges the agency hasn't provided requested Sinclair documents that were cited in the consent decree but not entered into the public record, nor has it responded to the October FOIA request. The regulator didn't comment.