Had some trouble with FOI's in the UK. Although they are free (amazing really), they fund you a max of 24hrs of worker pay to find your info. Overly broad requests are a massive problem and many fall foul. This is outside what you are asking for but it might be worth asking a bare minimum question in which the answer would give you an interesting lead? Don't know the charge from them though. Shame for this to not succeed in any way. Hope you find the data!
You're never going to see the data. I've been waiting 2+ years for mine. CDC amd FDA pass the requests back and forth for a few months, then tell you they can't run a db query, so your request will take 18 months as they look through the db BY HAND, and then they won't fulfill it even then. But it's good to make them go through the exercise of lying to you in PDFs.
I hear you. I have a couple groups with long lists of FOIA's in various states of "pending/appeal". We should all pool our appealed FOIA's and get some governor to help us!
That's the $64,000 dollar question and weez going to find out! I think if we can educate folks on FOIA submissions and possibly a "waived" avenue for incurred fees, we could beat the FOIA department into reasonableness? Or just choke'em to death with paper work which might be counter productive?
Had some trouble with FOI's in the UK. Although they are free (amazing really), they fund you a max of 24hrs of worker pay to find your info. Overly broad requests are a massive problem and many fall foul. This is outside what you are asking for but it might be worth asking a bare minimum question in which the answer would give you an interesting lead? Don't know the charge from them though. Shame for this to not succeed in any way. Hope you find the data!
You're never going to see the data. I've been waiting 2+ years for mine. CDC amd FDA pass the requests back and forth for a few months, then tell you they can't run a db query, so your request will take 18 months as they look through the db BY HAND, and then they won't fulfill it even then. But it's good to make them go through the exercise of lying to you in PDFs.
I hear you. I have a couple groups with long lists of FOIA's in various states of "pending/appeal". We should all pool our appealed FOIA's and get some governor to help us!
I tried my senator, and he folded lile a cheap tent. If you can't pay a big firm to sue, you'll wait forever.
Typical...
What is the specific requirement to meet their burden of proof that you are disseminating the FOI’D information into the public square?
That's the $64,000 dollar question and weez going to find out! I think if we can educate folks on FOIA submissions and possibly a "waived" avenue for incurred fees, we could beat the FOIA department into reasonableness? Or just choke'em to death with paper work which might be counter productive?
Awesome Albert!
Thank You! xoxoxo
Thank you for your efforts!!