Is proprietary information, submitted by a grantee or a stakeholder, subject to FOIA?
Certain information submitted by a grantee or a stakeholder could be exempt from public release under FOIA. FOIA Exemption 4 protects trade secrets and commercial or financial information obtained from a person if disclosure of the information is likely to cause substantial harm to the competitive position of the person from whom the information was obtained.
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