Judicial Watch announced today that it filed a Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) lawsuit against the U.S. Department of Homeland Security (DHS) for all records of communications between the Cybersecurity and Information Security Agency (CISA), a division of DHS, and the Election Integrity Partnership (EIP), which was created to flag online election content for censorship and suppression (Judicial Watch Inc. vs. U.S. Department of Homeland Security (No. 1:22-cv-03560 )).
Judicial Watch filed the suit in the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia after DHS failed to respond to its October 5, 2022, FOIA request for:
1. All records of communication between the CISA and the EIP. This includes all “tickets” or notifications to the Partnership regarding election-related disinformation on any social media platform.
2. All records regarding the July 9, 2020, meeting between DHS officials and representatives of the EIP.
3. All records of communication between the CISA and the University of Washington’s Center for an Informed Public and/or Stanford University’s Internet Observatory regarding any of the following:
The Election Integrity Partnership
The 2020 U.S. election
Online misinformation and disinformation
Any social media platform