By Steve Neavling
ticklethewire.com
It’s not an award to celebrate.
The Utah Headlines Chapter of the Society of Professional Journalists bestowed the Black Hole Award to the U.S. Marshals Service and the FBI.
The Deseret News published a letter to the Attorney General from the journalist group.
The group explained that the agencies won the award for refusing to disclose any information about the April 21, 2014, shooting at a federal courthouse in Salt Lake City.
The shooting by a U.S. marshal killed defendant Siale Angilau, and the case was investigated by the FBI.
“Those few facts and that the Department of Justice elected not to prosecute the marshal comprise what we know,” the group wrote. “No one at the Marshals Service or the FBI will answer more questions. The Marshals Service has denied multiple requests made for documents under the Freedom of Information Act. A request to the FBI has been pending for a year.”
