Blogger: Detroit demands $12,000-plus for e-mails between Mayor Duggan & [Emergency Manager] Orr

[LuckyTheDog]

From the under-rated Motor City Muckraker blog:

The city of Detroit responded that the cost “to conduct a forensic sweep” of the e-mails likely would exceed $12,000. And once the e-mails are identified, “most of the information will be redacted” because it is exempt from the Freedom of Information Act, city attorney Ellen Ha wrote.

“Because all of the individuals identified in your request are public bodies within the meaning of Section 2(d) of the Act, MCL 15.232(d), their communications would be exempt from disclosure pursuant to Section 13(1)(m) of the Act, MCL 15.243(1)(m). This provision of the Act exempts from disclosure ‘communications and notes within a public body or between public bodies of an advisory nature to the extent that they cover other than purely factual materials and are preliminary to a final agency determination of policy or action.'”

The city also would charge $54.52 an hour for an attorney to comb through the communication to determine what to redact.

MORE HERE: http://motorcitymuckraker.com/2014/10/10/detroit-demands-12000-plus-for-e-mails-between-mayor-duggan-em-orr/

[etherealtruth]

1. As a person that submits FOIA's to the city on a fairly regular basis ...

... let me assure you, the only thing "unusual" in this is that the city actually responded to the request.

Their fees and hoops required to jump through, if and when they respond, have been outrageous for years.

[valerief]

2. Everything has a price in Dictatorland. nt