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> The state police responded by saying they would provide the information only in return for a payment of $544,680. Anyone know what Michigan's Freedom of Info
by rflrob 16y ago
> The state police responded by saying they would provide the information only in return for a payment of $544,680.
Anyone know what Michigan's Freedom of Information laws are like? Half a million seems ridiculously high for a FoIA-type request.
- r00fus 16y agohttp://www.michigan.gov/ag/0,1607,7-164-17337_18160-51242--,00.html http://www.michigan.gov/ag/0,1607,7-164-17337_18160-51242--,... Relevant text: A government agency may charge a fee for the necessary copying of a public record for inspection or providing a copy of a public record to a requestor. A public body may also charge for search, examination and review and the separation of exempt information in those instances where failure to charge a fee would result in unreasonably high costs to the public body. The fee must be limited to actual duplication, mailing and labor costs. The first $20 of a fee must be waived for a person who is on welfare or presents facts showing inability to pay because of indigency. (italics mine) Translation: The $500k "fee" is another denial/delay tactic
- ceejayoz 16y ago> The fee must be limited to actual duplication, mailing and labor costs. All they have to do to drive up the costs is pay a secretary to duplicate by manually transcribing digital data as ones and zeroes.