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The university admissions scam involving Lori Loughlin and Felicity Huffman shows how some wealthy families are using a "side door" to create an already unfair education system.
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The Department of Justice has announced that it does not plan to broadcast photos of actresses Lori Loughlin and Felicity Huffman, which may disappoint anyone who appreciates the schadenfreude factor in the huge fraud scandal regarding admission to the university called Operation Varsity Blues.

Loughlin, who, along with her husband Mossimo Giannulli, is accused of bribing officials at the University of Southern California, and Huffman, who allegedly paid a supervisor for university exams, are accused of refusing honest services to the rest of the public. So, why does not the public see the photos of their reservation?

The DOJ and the US Marshals state that their policies prohibit the publication of photos, as this does not meet the needs of agencies if the person in question has already been apprehended. In other words, their publication after the arrest serves only the fascination of the public.

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the The US Marshals Service's website, which apprehends fugitives and transports prisoners and witnesses, indicates that photos of criminals could be released to help capture fugitive criminals. But "once a prisoner has been arrested, the general rule is that no release shall take place, as the dissemination of photographs of this prisoner to the media or to the public would not serve the purpose." law application."

DOJ spokeswoman Elizabeth McCarthy told USA TODAY that her agency followed the same guidelines.

It is still possible for photos to be published via a FOIA (Freedom of Information Act) request, but uploading one does not guarantee their release.

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According to the USMS, "reservation photographs are not generally subject to discretionary disclosure under the FOIA, as they almost always reside in archival systems protected by the Law on the Protection of Life. private ".

The agency stated that its attorneys' office had to determine "that the plaintiff had established that the public interest of the requested photo reservation outweighed the interest of privacy at stake or that other factors specific to the FOIA request justified the processing of this request. "

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