Lockett v. Wray, No. 16-1597, 2017 WL 4271222 (D.D.C. Sept. 25, 2017) (Contreras, J.)

Lockett v. Wray, No. 16-1597, 2017 WL 4271222 (D.D.C. Sept. 25, 2017) (Contreras, J.)

Re:  Request for records contained in Combined DNA Index System ("CODIS") concerning plaintiff

Disposition:  Granting defendant's motion for summary judgment

• Procedural Requirements, Searching for Responsive Records:  "[T]he Court, finding no FOIA violation, will grant summary judgment to defendant solely on its documented inability to conduct a search."  The court relates that defendant stated that "'[o]nly the agency that entered the information into CODIS has the identifiers necessary to access and retrieve DNA analysis relating to a specific individual.'"  Further, "[i]f [a responsive record] exists, it 'would have been collected and uploaded into CODIS by the Florida Department of Law Enforcement Laboratory,' . . . which is the agency to which plaintiff should direct his request, . . . but to which the federal FOIA has no application."