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Is this kind of thing common? When the police ask for physical files, can you charge them for the time taken to gather and photocopy them?
by CJefferson 13y ago
Is this kind of thing common? When the police ask for physical files, can you charge them for the time taken to gather and photocopy them?
- naterator 13y agoIt was released in the news months ago that the government pays Google/Microsoft/etc. for the trouble they go to in order to provide the data they do. http://www.theguardian.com/world/2013/aug/23/nsa-prism-costs-tech-companies-paid http://www.theguardian.com/world/2013/aug/23/nsa-prism-costs...
- IceyEC 13y agoYes, and almost every situation where somebody that has documents is served a subpoena for those documents can demand a fee to provide them, but thy do still have to provide the documents.
- bsullivan01 13y agoAFAIK, yes. I guess it also depends on what it is, photocopying a single page is different from spending a week coding a solution to what the feds want. Can you imagine the feds forcing you to do things that take a year to program, even if you don't have the resources?
- DerpDerpDerp 13y agoThere's some question about if the government can legally make you do work for free, except as a punishment for a crime.
- sejje 13y agoI always assumed that even then you had to be paid, like the guys who get pay measured in double-digit-cents-per-hour to make license plates or whatever. Although I guess forced community service could be thought about the same way.
- bmm6o 13y agoI don't know much about the inner workings of the penal system, but the 13th amendment (which generally abolished slavery) specifically allows for involuntary servitude as punishment for a crime.
- superuser2 13y agoYes, and the government can charge you for the expense of complying with a FOIA request.