[toomuchtodo]

Their page specifically says if its not a first party request (you requesting information about you), you must submit a copy of the Social Security Death Index showing the person is deceased. Instead of the requestor needing to provide that page, they could simply verify the SSN you're providing, in combination with the person's name, against the Social Security Death Index file internally.

"If you are requesting information on a deceased individual, you will need to upload proof of death unless the deceased individual is more than 100 years old. Acceptable proof of death includes obituaries, death certificates, recognized sources that can be documented, written media, Who’s Who in America, an FBI file that indicates a person is deceased, or a Social Security Death Index page."

Emphasis mine.

[apaprocki]

Requests for information about living people are covered by Privacy Act (PA) requests, not FOIA requests.

https://m.fbi.gov/#https://www.fbi.gov/foia/requesting-fbi-r...

[toomuchtodo]

The original post I replied to asked:

> "If you are requesting information on a deceased individual, you will need to upload proof of death unless the deceased individual is more than 100 years old."

> The FBI doesn't know who is dead?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10660342

I'm simply showing a) they do and b) they could make it much easier for specifying this in your request and verifying it.

[moftz]

Are you suggesting that different government agencies work together to accomplish a task efficiently? Perish the thought!