in some instances, these documents contain
previously applied Bates numbers. Those Bates numbers do not reflect whether an item is
responsive under the Act. Only those documents that include a Bates number with “EFTA” in its
designation are those that are responsive under the Act.
Sometimes I feel the old blogger in me wanting to write and explain how the zip files are structured. Then I remember no one read my blog, and I deleted it in 2014…
What is a Bates number?
Right good question. The “EFTA numbers” are really called Bates numbers, you put them on each page in a document.
The first bates number is the filename and the number on the first page in a document then each page is numberd sequentially.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bates_numbering
You can read about it here in the case of the Epstein files. https://www.justice.gov/opa/media/1426091/dl
EFTA stands for “Epstein Files Transparency Act”
Sometimes I feel the old blogger in me wanting to write and explain how the zip files are structured. Then I remember no one read my blog, and I deleted it in 2014…