“The larger problem with this incident is that regular citizens, by and large, don’t have a way of speeding up their requests. They aren’t having private meetings with high-level city staffers.”
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The editorial states, “At least twice, an MBJ open records request with the City has taken in excess of a year for the records to be returned. While waiting for one of those requests, MBJ editor Greg Akers met with a high-level city staffer (who we do not name because the meeting was on background) and complained that the request was a year old.
“The records were sent to MBJ three days after that meeting.
“In a July interview for the story, the city’s attorney said it was hard to know if that timing was a coincidence. If it wasn’t, it suggests it wasn’t that the city couldn’t get the request fulfilled; it was that they just hadn’t. If it was a coincidence, it doesn’t negate the year-long wait.
“The larger problem with this incident is that regular citizens, by and large, don’t have a way of speeding up their requests. They aren’t having private meetings with high-level city staffers.”
Read more here.
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