District of Columbia Code Division I. Government of District. § 2-534. Exemptions from disclosure.

(1) Trade secrets and commercial or financial information obtained from outside the government, to the extent that disclosure would result in substantial harm to the competitive position of the person from whom the information was obtained;

(2) Information of a personal nature where the public disclosure thereof would constitute a clearly unwarranted invasion of personal privacy;

(2A) Any body-worn camera recordings recorded by the Metropolitan Police Department:

(3) Investigatory records compiled for law-enforcement purposes, including the records of Council investigations and investigations conducted by the Office of Police Complaints, but only to the extent that the production of such records would:

(4) Inter-agency or intra-agency memorandums or letters, including memorandums or letters generated or received by the staff or members of the Council, which would not be available by law to a party other than a public body in litigation with the public body.

(5) Test questions and answers to be used in future license, employment, or academic examinations, but not previously administered examinations or answers to questions thereon;

(6) Information specifically exempted from disclosure by statute (other than this section), provided that such statute:

(7) Information specifically authorized by federal law under criteria established by a presidential executive order to be kept secret in the interest of national defense or foreign policy which is in fact properly classified pursuant to such executive order;

(8) Information exempted from disclosure by § 28-4505;

(9) Information disclosed pursuant to § 5-417;

(10) Any specific response plan, including any District of Columbia response plan, as that term is defined in § 7-2301(1), and any specific vulnerability assessment, either of which is intended to prevent or to mitigate an act of terrorism, as that term is defined in § 22-3152(1);

(11) Information exempt from disclosure by § 47-2851.06;

(12) Information, the disclosure of which would reveal the name of an employee providing information under subchapter XV-A of Chapter 6 of Title 1 and subchapter XII of Chapter 2 of this title, unless the name of the employee is already known to the public;

(13) Information exempt from disclosure by § 7-2271.04;

(14) Information that is ordered sealed and restricted from public access pursuant to Chapter 8 of Title 16;

(15) Any critical infrastructure information or plans that contain critical infrastructure information for the critical infrastructures of companies that are regulated by the Public Service Commission of the District of Columbia;

(16) Information exempt from disclosure pursuant to § 38-2615;

(17) Information exempt from disclosure pursuant to § 50-301.29a(13)(C)(i);

(18) Information exempt from disclosure pursuant to § 24-481.07(a);

(19) Information exempt from disclosure under subchapter XIV of Chapter 1A of Title 41; and

(20) Information withheld from disclosure under § 10-551.07e(e)(2).

(a-1)(1) The Council may assert, on behalf of any public body from which it obtains records or information, any exemption listed in subsection (a) of this section that could be asserted by the public body pertaining to the records or information.

(2) Disclosure of any public record, document, or information from a District of Columbia government agency, official, or employee to the following persons or entities shall not constitute a waiver of any privilege or exemption that otherwise could be asserted by the District of Columbia to prevent disclosure to the general public or in a judicial or administrative proceeding:

(d)[(1)] The provisions of this subchapter shall not apply to vital records covered by Chapter 2 of Title 7 or Chapter 2A of Title 7.

[(2)] The provisions of this subchapter shall not apply to:

(d-1)(1) Notwithstanding any provision of this subchapter, a request under this subchapter for disciplinary records shall not be categorically denied or redacted on the basis that it constitutes an unwarranted invasion of a personal privacy for officers within the Metropolitan Police Department (“MPD”), the District of Columbia Housing Authority Police Department (“HAPD”), or the Office of the Inspector General (“OIG”), except as described in paragraph (3) of this subsection.

(2) For the purposes of this subsection, the term “disciplinary records” means any record created in furtherance of a disciplinary proceeding for, or an Office of Police Complaints (“OPC”) investigation of, an MPD, HAPD, or OIG officer, regardless of whether the matter was fully adjudicated or resulted in policy training, including:

(3) When providing records or information related to disciplinary records, the responding public body may redact:

(3) When providing records or information related to disciplinary records, the responding public body may redact: