Defense Department Tells MuckRock It Will Need To Come Up With $660 Million To Cover FOIA Request Fees
Nothing quite tells the public to mind its own business like attaching a ridiculous fee demand to an FOIA response. It’s pretty easy to price the public out of the transparency market, seeing as it doesn’t have access to the monetary resources its tax dollars are paying for.
We’ve covered a few of the more ridiculous FOIA fee demands here at Techdirt, like:
The City of Ferguson charging $135/hour for FOIA response work — a rate roughly 10 times the hourly wage of entry-level city clerk’s office employees.
The City of McKinney telling Gawker emails related to a police misconduct investigation would run 9,000 hours and cost $79,000.
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