Costly Documents
February 4th, 2005 | Published in FOIA, Public Records
Dan Christensen of the Daily Business Review in South Florida writes about an interest group’s FOIA request for documents from the Justice Department relating to legal proceedings involving immigrant detainees since Sept. 11: compiling the records, the agency said, would cost “approximately $372,799. Please note that this does not include the search times estimated from 5 districts. At least one of those districts (Southern Florida) informed us that their search would require hundreds of hours. Therefore, this is an estimate.” People for the American Way asked for documents relating to “any request by the government to seal the proceedings of a case in any federal court arising from or relating to the detention of a post 9/11 immigrant detainee.”