[PapaBear3625]

“Now we have to hire a person just to take care of this woman and her requesting something, requesting it a second time, requesting it a third time, turning in complaints,” she said.

FOIA request recipients have the right to charge a reasonable amount to cover the cost of actually fulfilling the request. So if an additional person needs to be hired full time just to comply with the volume of the requests, then that person's time comes out of the fees, not the school budget.

[az_gila]

A lot more detail here -

http://www.goldwaterinstitute.org/article/4506

And violating the AZ Open Meeting Law...

The district was not properly posting governing board agendas or making minutes available to the public, as required by the state’s open meetings law, Warren said. That assertion was supported by an investigation conducted by the state Attorney General’s Office in 2002 that was triggered in part by complaints Warren filed.

I guess they did not want their incompetence on display...