Weekly/biweekly Michigan legislative action thread
Posted on 03/16/2013 7:50:22 AM PDT by lowbridge
Remember the right-to-work protests in Michigan late last year that felled a tent hosted by the conservative group Americans for Prosperity and damaged the personal property of others? Now the same group is seeking to obtain video of the incident from law enforcement, but is being told it will cost them nearly $20,000.
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According to AFP-Michigan’s press release, through the Freedom of Information Act it requested videotaped material of the protests that it believed was held by the Michigan State Police. The FOIA was filed in Dec. 21 and the police asked for extra time to respond until Jan. 4. This extension was followed by AFP receiving a notice Jan. 18 that said to access the video it would cost them $19,602.52 in fees. To search, retrieve, review, sift through records and separate materials that might be exempt, the police stated to AFP, would cost $19,573.92 in employee labor alone.
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This is such typical government b.s..
So what if there is 400 hours of video. Turn it all over for the cost of copying it. It doesn’t take 400 hours to copy digital recordings. Offer them $500 for media or tell them to find new jobs.
Tell them it’s already been paid for in taxes.
Remember the right-to-work protests in Michigan late last year that felled a tent hosted by the conservative group Americans for Prosperity and damaged the personal property of others? Now the same group is seeking to obtain video of the incident from law enforcement, but is being told it will cost them nearly $20,000.
The essence of corruption is dealing with phony roadblocks thrown up by degenerate officials as they twist and turn to circumvent the law.
It makes a mockery of the intent of the “Freedom of Information” act. If they can set the price to any outrageous value then the public really has no access to public information.
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