Legal Question in Employment Law in California

I sent a Freedom of Information Act request to the EEOC to obtain a copy of a case file regarding a complaint that I made against a former employer. The EEOC denied my FOIA and cited Section 706(b) and Section 709(e), calling attention to the following: �Charges shall not be made public by the Commission�. Nothing said or done during and as a part of [the Commission�s informal endeavors at resolving charges of discrimination] may be made public....� and �It shall be unlawful for any officer of the Commission to make public in any manner whatever any information obtained by the Commission pursuant to its authority under this section [to investigate charges of discrimination and to require employers to maintain and submit records] prior to the institution of any proceeding under this title involving such information.� I am currently doing research on a personal matter, and my FOIA only asks for information on my own complaint; I do not plan to directly disseminate this information to the general public, so can I make an appeal based on the language, "made public" given that my FOIA would not be doing so?

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