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by apaprocki 3855 days ago
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...

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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.