Public records made available, but at a whopping $132,348 – Miami Herald Blog

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Public records made available, but at a whopping $132,348 – Miami Herald Blog
By kgarner 10 October, 2014 1 Comment

State agencies often charge for public records, but one news organization encountered sticker shock when it received the bill for its request. Florida’s 17th judicial circuit court charged the Center for Public Integrity $132,348 for records regarding the procedures and policies surrounding foreclosure cases last summer

A story from the investigative news organization states that Alexandra Rieman, general counsel for the circuit that includes Fort Lauderdale and Broward County, said the public records request would require staff to sort through 149,000 emails. That, in turn, would require 2,500 staff member hours at rates of either $45 or $53 an hour, which added up to the $132,348 figure.

And whatever records the court system did provide would cost another 15 cents a page, Rieman added, without including estimates of staffer hours and hourly rates.

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1. They are all court records and should be available

at no charge on the Internet.