http://www.fcps.edu/usingsite/foia/making-a-request.shtml

New email address for FCPS FOIA requests.
They have also posted their fee policy.

You can also just show up at whatever office has the stuff you want and ask in person.

VPRA fan Wrote:
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> You can also just show up at whatever office has
> the stuff you want and ask in person.


This really makes their day.

sarpoijb Wrote:
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> VPRA fan Wrote:
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> > You can also just show up at whatever office
> has
> > the stuff you want and ask in person.
>
>
> This really makes their day.


Take baked goods.

FCPS now says anything under thirty minutes of search time is free.
They will say in the response letter they send you with the bill that half an hour of search time is waived.
If they combine several requests into one response letter, they should be taking half an hour off of EACH request, NOT half an hour off of the total of all the requests in the letter.

Pull your receipts. You can request a refund if they did this to you.

Check your statements Wrote:
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> FCPS now says anything under thirty minutes of
> search time is free.
> They will say in the response letter they send you
> with the bill that half an hour of search time is
> waived.
> If they combine several requests into one response
> letter, they should be taking half an hour off of
> EACH request, NOT half an hour off of the total of
> all the requests in the letter.
>
> Pull your receipts. You can request a refund if
> they did this to you.

I see - in theory, you could deliberately phrase/limit your FOIA requests into small segments and then make a separate FOIA inquiry for each segment. Then you could turn 5 hours of research into 20 separate 15 minute FOIA requests. Good Idea. Thanks.

They are putting a limit on Foia Request

FCPs limiting foIA Wrote:
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> They are putting a limit on Foia Request


They can't do this.

FIOATHEFOIA Wrote:
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> Check your statements Wrote:
> --------------------------------------------------
> -----
> > FCPS now says anything under thirty minutes of
> > search time is free.
> > They will say in the response letter they send
> you
> > with the bill that half an hour of search time
> is
> > waived.
> > If they combine several requests into one
> response
> > letter, they should be taking half an hour off
> of
> > EACH request, NOT half an hour off of the total
> of
> > all the requests in the letter.
> >
> > Pull your receipts. You can request a refund if
> > they did this to you.
>
> I see - in theory, you could deliberately
> phrase/limit your FOIA requests into small
> segments and then make a separate FOIA inquiry for
> each segment. Then you could turn 5 hours of
> research into 20 separate 15 minute FOIA requests.
> Good Idea. Thanks.


Exactly.

They will just overestimate the search time in order for compensate for the 0.5 hour that is "waived". They are just pretending it is a fair deal.

that sounds more accurate

causeican Wrote:
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> that sounds more accurate


Yup. They will try to screw you over no matter what.

Something tells me a few FOIAs might uncover some less than proper motivation for the speeches given during the school board budget meeting. Some of the prepared statements just sounded TOO prepared-especially the ones by the kids, and some of the adults were just incoherent!