[nfbmi-talk] Fw: request zimmer information etc

joe harcz Comcast joeharcz at comcast.net
Wed Jul 25 18:08:18 UTC 2012


----- Original Message ----- 
From: joe harcz Comcast 
To: Farmer, Mel (LARA) 
Sent: Wednesday, July 25, 2012 2:06 PM
Subject: Re: request zimmer information etc


This is a lie and a documented lie. Simple as that\ for Fred Wertzel has stated in the public record that he has requested as an advocate information from zimmer himself relative to ALJ cases of Business Enterprise Operators in the public record and that includes the minutes of Michigan Commission for the Blind meetings.

Thus, you sir, Mr. Farmer are in a word "lying". and since this impacts both the ADA, 504 and the False Statements Act you are committing right here felonies and misdemeanors in that you are making false statements de facto to feduragulatory bodies, and you violate in whole and part all aspects of the FOIa and knowingly so which is a "criminal offense" and actionable.


  ----- Original Message ----- 
  From: Farmer, Mel (LARA) 
  To: 'joe harcz Comcast' 
  Cc: Zimmer, Mike (LARA) ; Cannon, Patrick (LARA) ; Haynes, Carla (LARA) 
  Sent: Wednesday, July 25, 2012 1:59 PM
  Subject: FW: request zimmer information etc


  July 25, 2012

   

  Paul Joseph Harcz

  1365 E. Mt. Morris Rd.

  Mt. Morris, MI 48458

   

  RE: Request Wertzel/Zimmer Email Correspondences.

   

  Dear Mr. Harcz:

   

  This notice in response to your July 25, 2012 email (attached) to me requesting copies of existing, nonexempt public records you describe as ".all email correspondences during the past three months between Michigan Deputy Director Mike Zimmer and "Fred" Wertzel." Please be informed that the Department is processing this request under the state's Freedom of Information Act (FOIA), MCL 15.231 et seq.

   

  This request is denied. After a search for records, to the best of the Department's knowledge, information, and belief, the Department does not possess any records responsive to your request; and pursuant to MCL 15.235, Section 5(4)(b) of the state's FOIA, I certify that the public records requested do not exist under the name given by you, or another name reasonably known to the Department.

   

  Under MCL 15.240 of the state's FOIA, you may (1) submit a written appeal regarding the denial of any portion of your request to Mr. Steven H. Hilfinger, Director, Michigan Department of Licensing and Regulatory Affairs, Attention: Mike Zimmer, Chief Deputy Director, 611 W. Ottawa, 4th Floor, P.O. Box 30004, Lansing, MI 48909. Your written appeal must include the word "appeal" and identify the reason(s) for reversal of the disclosure denial(s); or (2) you may seek judicial review in circuit court within 180 days after the Department's final determination. If you prevail in such action, the court may award you reasonable attorney fess, costs, and disbursements. If the court finds the Department's actions to be arbitrary and capricious, the court shall award you, in addition to any actual or compensatory damages, punitive damages in the amount of $500.00.

   

  /S/Melvin Farmer, Jr

  Central FOIA Coordinator

   

  Attachment

   

   


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  From: joe harcz Comcast [mailto:joeharcz at comcast.net] 
  Sent: Wednesday, July 25, 2012 11:07 AM
  To: Farmer, Mel (LARA)
  Cc: Haynes, Carla (LARA); Zimmer, Mike (LARA); Cannon, Patrick (LARA); Craig McManus RSA; Carol Dobak; nfbmi-talk at nfbnet.org; Larry Posont MCB Comm.; John Scott MCB Comm.; lydia Schuck MCB Comm.
  Subject: request zimmer information etc

   

  July 25 2012 Request Wertzel Zimmer Correspondences

   

  Paul Joseph Harcz, Jr.

  1365 E. Mt. Morris Rd.

  Mt. Morris, MI 48458

  810-516-5262

  joeharcz at comcast.net

  Re: All correspondences between Zimmer Wertzel

   

  To: LARA FOIA Offices and more

   

  (See: ccs..via email)

   

  All,

   

  I am writing today to request all and I mean all e-mail correspondences during the past three months between Michigan Deputy Director Michael Zimmer and "Fred" Wertzel.

   

  These should include anything related to requests for accessible information related to:

   

  -Any Administrative Hearing in MAHS

  -Anything related to any Executive Order 

  -Anything related to the Michigan commission for the Blind State Plan

   

  These documents should be part of the public record and made available to me, an advocate who is indeed blind with no obfuscations, stalling, or surcharges forthwith in accessible format pursuant to obligations of LARA and the State of Michigan under the Americans with Disabilities Act, Title II subpart e, communications and Section 504 of the Rehabilitation Act of 1973.

   

  To wit: send them all directly to my e-mail address listed above as either word documents and/or plain text enclosures or simply "fw" the e-mail requests and documents as is to my e-mail adress.

  This isn't rocket science. Mr. Zimmer has on hisState owned computer the requested information or darned well better have it on there.

  Sincerely,

   

  Paul Joseph Harcz, Jr.

   

  Cc: MCB Commissioners

  Cc: NFB MI

  Cc: M. Zimmer

  Cc: Patrick D. Cannon

  Cc: RSA

  Cc: Farmer and Haynes LARA

  Cc: several attorneys at law

   

   



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