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Since they revised the cost for the data they actually sent him down from $33M to $56 (90 days of data at $1.25 for 2 days data), was a ballpark estimate that's
by Johnny555 8y ago
Since they revised the cost for the data they actually sent him down from $33M to $56 (90 days of data at $1.25 for 2 days data), was a ballpark estimate that's over 500,000 times higher than the actual cost really reasonable?
- jakobegger 8y agoThe ballpark estimate was for checking the full text of each and every email (which was a misunderstanding -- the author wanted metadata only).
- slavik81 8y agoThe actual cost of servicing this request was much greater than the $56 estimate.
- late2part 8y agoEspecially after the city made a mistake!
- nzealand 8y ago$32M is not a cost the requestor bears, but an estimate of the cost the city bears. IT estimated the requestor fees to be $21k/year assuming 10TB of data. Clearly, IT were estimating the costs of releasing all email text, because FOIA mistakenly changed the words "please provide the following information:" to "including metadata:" Once they figured out the request was for header information only, the city came back with an estimate of under $60.