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douglas9

(4,359 posts) Wed Jul 1, 2015, 12:31 PM Jul 2015

McKinney Wants $79,000 for Police Records

McKINNEY, Texas (CN) - McKinney, Texas demands $79,000 for records on the white police officer who was filmed pulling his gun on black teenagers in an incident that made national headlines, a news service says.
Gawker Media said on Monday it filed a Public Information Act request with the city for records on former police Cpl. Eric Casebolt, including messages regarding his conduct.
Casebolt resigned on June 9, shortly after the video went viral. He denied that race had anything to do with how he acted.
Gawker said in a statement: "Given the stratospheric total number - and the fact that nearly every email client on the planet has some sort of search function - it's hard to read the letter as anything other than a deliberate attempt to conceal information. We'll be filing an appeal."

http://www.courthousenews.com/2015/07/01/mckinney-wants-79-000-for-police-records.htm

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McKinney Wants $79,000 for Police Records (Original Post) douglas9 Jul 2015 OP

Keep digging, boys. HassleCat Jul 2015 #1

McKinney, Texas Tears Up Its $79,000 FOIA Bill (update) douglas9 Jul 2015 #2

HassleCat

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1. Keep digging, boys.

Reply to douglas9 (Original post)

Wed Jul 1, 2015, 12:38 PM

Jul 2015

In most states, public records laws make it a crime to stonewall by charging $100 a page for the copy machine, and various other tricks. Of course, when the city of McKinney wants to charge (for example) $35,000 for an hour's worth of the records clerk's time, that's outrageous, and probably illegal. But you have to go in front of a judge and get an order saying so. The McKinney police aren't going to arrest themselves.

douglas9

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2. McKinney, Texas Tears Up Its $79,000 FOIA Bill (update)

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Fri Jul 3, 2015, 12:57 PM

Jul 2015

McKINNEY, Texas (CN) - McKinney, Texas officials apologized for charging $79,000 to fulfill a media request for records concerning the white police officer who pulled a gun on black teenagers, and was filmed doing it.
McKinney spokeswoman Anna Clark apologized to Gawker Media on Wednesday, which filed a Public Information Act request for former police Cpl. Eric Casebolt's records and email messages on his past conduct.
"The number quoted to you as a cost estimate for your records request is not accurate," Clark wrote. "We sincerely apologize for the misinformation and the ensuing confusion, and we agree that the cost of more than $79,000 is at best implausible."

http://www.courthousenews.com/2015/07/03/mckinney-texas-tears-up-its-79-000-foia-bill.htm

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