QUICKLINK Michigan · November 17, 2009 · State open government
State police want nearly $7 million to fulfill FOIA request
Keywords: Fees; Open Records
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The Michigan Department of State Police is charging the Mackinac Center for Public Policy nearly $7 million to fulfill its FOIA request for information on how the state has used homeland security grant money since 2002, the nonpartisan research group reported.
A communications specialist at the center requested information after the Department of Homeland Security's inspector general released a report that detailed multiple implementation problems in how $129 million in security grants was spent in seven Michigan counties between 2002 and 2004.
The center filed a follow-up FOIA request for all documents relating to homeland security grants in the state since 2002, but the state police department, which administers homeland security grants in Michigan, said there would be more than 2 million pages and that it would cost $6.9 million to process the request.
— Kirk Davis, 2:19 pm
Comments: (2)
Comment by Chetly Zarko (chetly AT chetlyzarko.com), Tue, Nov 17, 2009, 3:01pm
$3.5 per page. Wow.
Comment by natasha, Tue, Nov 24, 2009, 12:12pm
They obviously have something to hide. How is information free if they are charging $3.5 per page?! Another violation of the freedom of the press. What a well-written article, however. At least one reporter knows how to write.
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