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Probably using the same law to weed out "troublemakers" that ask for a bazillion records simply because they can. A nation of laws and all :) The judges will so
by tryingagainbro 9y ago
Probably using the same law to weed out "troublemakers" that ask for a bazillion records simply because they can. A nation of laws and all :) The judges will sort it out and no one can (really) complain.
- evilduck 9y agoYeah I’ve seen this first hand when I was a government contractor. A guy would come into the public information office once a week and request all the data for a thing be printed for him. From 1973-present, every week. It was reams and reams of paper and he could have just asked for the historical data once and the previous week’s data each week if he was really interested in anything besides being wasteful. Afaik it was within his right to ask for it and the office had to comply.
- colejohnson66 9y agoDoesn’t the FOIA allow the government to charge a “reasonable” amount for labor?
- pc86 9y agoYes, which at the very least could be the actual cost of the paper and the cost of the person's time fulfilling the request.
- evilduck 9y agoI’m not really well versed in the legal side. This also was a regular, well used public info resource, not a singular FOIA request. It just happened to be abused by an individual.
- specialist 9y agoI've always been charged for material expenses. YMMV.
- ceejayoz 9y agoThe laws that permit these records requests also permit reasonable fees for fulfilling the requests, which pretty easily sorts that issue out.