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How much did the FOIA request cost?

• bpchaps 8y ago
  It was free. I've never had to pay for any information coming from an Illinois FOIA request.
  • dannyw 8y ago
    Have you thought about distributing the data, for accessibility and reproducibility? As well as save the taxpayers a little bit of dough in case someone else wants to request the same data. edit: my bad, didn't see it at the end
    • kingbirdy 8y ago
      The dataset is linked to at the end of the article (http://freeourinfo.com/tickets/ http://freeourinfo.com/tickets/)
    • deleted 8y ago
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  • captain_perl 8y ago
    You might want to try postal address lookup/verification software to fix the addresses.
  • icelancer 8y ago
    That's interesting. I've often had to pay small to medium-sized amounts - always reasonable, I might add - for the price of producing said information.
    • bpchaps 8y ago
      You can often request that the FOIA officer waive the fee so long as the public's interest outweighs the burden to collect and redact the info. That's almost certainly what happened with my IL requests.
  • Kagerjay 8y ago
    I didn't even know about FOIA request until this post thanks for write up