Overview
- Justice Department officials said they removed several thousand documents and media from the latest release after potential victim-identifying information was found.
- Attorneys Brittany Henderson and Brad Edwards asked New York federal judges Richard Berman and Paul Engelmayer to order an immediate takedown, citing thousands of redaction failures.
- Victims described harassment and death threats following disclosures, with one survivor saying publication put her and her child at potential physical risk.
- U.S. Attorney Jay Clayton told the court that materials flagged by victims or their lawyers were largely taken down and that review protocols were updated, while Deputy Attorney General Todd Blanche called the errors sporadic and about 0.001% of materials.
- Reporting detailed unredacted victim names and allegedly explicit images in the posted files, even as innocuous items were obscured, and noted that the broader release remains incomplete past a prior deadline.