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Not as an FOI officer. Who decides who is nutty? Some well documented stories: https://www.propublica.org/article/delayed-denied-dismissed-failures-on-the-fo

• pc86 5y ago
  I'm not saying it's a clear cut thing, and reasonable people can disagree about the reasonableness of an individual FOIA request in the gray areas. A decent public servant will give folks the benefit of the doubt even when they clearly have political motives. But, I don't see any reason to give any benefit of the doubt to people submitting FOIA requests on vaccine microchips, or chemtrails, or conspiratorial nonsense like that.
  • throwawaygh 5y ago
    > But, I don't see any reason to give any benefit of the doubt to people submitting FOIA requests on vaccine microchips, or chemtrails, or conspiratorial nonsense like that. Gov officials don't have to give the the benefit of the doubt. But gov officials do have to respond in a timely and accurate manner to the requests. In this case, that probable means running the equivalent of a ctrl+F over various explicitly enumerated databases for "vaccine microchips" or "chemtrails" and replying "sorry, zero results".