Comment by cyanydeez

Yeah I can see that, seems like masking isn't creating a new record, but obviously that's not how it's interpreted, because you're using the human filling out the form to interpret then return the data. FOIA typically allow for redactions and that seemingly creates new records because they have to redact things and knowing what to redact is providing masked information and that's a new record.

As such, they could claim all FOIAs that require redactions shouldn't be fulfilled because a redacted record is a new record.