Re: FCPS- new FOIA request procedure
Posted by:
FIOATHEFOIA
()
Date: February 04, 2016 05:10PM
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.