[nfbmi-talk] Fw: Response to FOIA Request of 6-1-2012

[joe harcz Comcast]

You are correct, but they violated this relative to the RSA monitoring as 
well...
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Fred Wurtzel" <f.wurtzel at att.net>
To: "'NFB of Michigan Internet Mailing List'" <nfbmi-talk at nfbnet.org>
Sent: Friday, June 08, 2012 11:05 AM
Subject: Re: [nfbmi-talk] Fw: Response to FOIA Request of 6-1-2012


> Hello Joe,
>
> Even if the document is not complete, the request for correspondence is 
> not
> protected, as I see it.
>
> Regards,
>
> Fred
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: nfbmi-talk-bounces at nfbnet.org [mailto:nfbmi-talk-bounces at nfbnet.org]
> On Behalf Of joe harcz Comcast
> Sent: Friday, June 08, 2012 8:36 AM
> To: Larry Posont MCB Comm.
> Cc: lydia Schuck MCB Comm.; John Scott MCB Comm.; nfbmi-talk at nfbnet.org
> Subject: [nfbmi-talk] Fw: Response to FOIA Request of 6-1-2012
>
> The State Plan is not supposed to be a secret document.
>
> JH
> ----- Original Message ----- 
> From: Haynes, Carla (LARA)
> To: joe harcz Comcast (joeharcz at comcast.net)
> Cc: Cannon, Patrick (LARA) ; Luzenski, Sue (LARA) ; Farmer, Mel (LARA) ;
> Duell, Elsie (LARA) ; Turney, Susan (LARA) ; Lautner, Christopher J (LARA) 
> ;
> Jones, Leamon (LARA) ; Gaston, Diamalyn (LARA)
> Sent: Friday, June 08, 2012 8:30 AM
> Subject: Response to FOIA Request of 6-1-2012
>
>
> June 5, 2012
>
>
>
> Mr. Paul Joseph Harcz, Jr.
>
> E-mail: joeharcz at comcast.net
>
> 1365 E. Mt. Morris Rd.
>
> Mt. Morris, MI 48458
>
>
>
> Dear Mr. Harcz, Jr.:
>
>
>
> This letter is in response to your June 1, 2012, email request for copies 
> of
> public records, received on June 4, 2012.  Please be informed that the
> Michigan Commission for the Blind (MCB) is processing this request under 
> the
> state's Freedom of Information Act (FOIA), MCL 15.231 et seq.
>
>
>
> You have requested information that you described as:  "I am requesting 
> all
> information relative to the upcoming Michigan Commission for the Blind
> meeting (June 15, 2012) that is now or will be in the hands of the MCB
> Commissioners. In addition I am requesting all correspondences related to 
> EO
> 2012-2 and 2012-6 as they pertain to MCB's State Plan, and all information
> written to date relative to the State Plan."
>
>
>
> Your request is granted in part and denied in part as to existing, 
> nonexempt
> records in the possession of the Department falling within the scope of 
> your
> request.
>
>
>
> The granted information is the information relative to the upcoming 
> Michigan
> Commission for the Blind (MCB) Board meeting of June 15, 2012, (entitled 
> the
> Commission Board Packet), and you should have been received this from Sue
> Luzenski.
>
>
>
> The denied information is relative to your request of all correspondence
> related to EO 2012-2 and 2016-6 as they pertain to MCB's State Plan.  This
> information is denied under the FOIA, MCL 15.243, sec. 13(1)(m).  This
>
>
>
> Letter - P.J. Harcz, Jr.
>
> June 8, 2012
>
> Page 2 of 2
>
>
>
>
>
>
>
>
>
> information is currently in discussion and is not in a final "draft" form.
> The draft document will be available on our website at 
> www.michigan.gov/mcb
> in the near future in order to facilitate discussion for the upcoming 
> public
> meetings to be held on the State Plan.  Disclosure at this point in time
> will discourage frank and open communication between staff and the 
> Michigan
> Commission for the Blind Commission Board.
>
>
>
> Under MCL 15.240 of the FOIA you may (1) submit a written appeal regarding
> the denial of any portion of your FOIA request to Mr. Steven H. Hilfinger,
> Director, Michigan Department of Licensing and Regulatory Affairs:
> Attention, Mike Zimmer, Chief Deputy Director, Ottawa Building, 4th Floor,
> P.O. Box 30004, Lansing, MI 48909. Your appeal notice must include the 
> word
> "appeal" and state the reason(s) for reversal of the denial(s); or (2) you
> may seek judicial review in circuit court within 180 days of the
> Department's final determination. If you prevail in such action, the court
> shall award reasonable attorney fees, costs, and disbursements. If the 
> court
> finds the Department's actions to be arbitrary and capricious, the court, 
> in
> addition to any actual or compensatory damages, award punitive damages in
> the amount of $500.00.
>
>
>
> Sincerely,
>
>
>
>
>
> Carla Miller Haynes, FOIA Coordinator
>
> Michigan Commission for the Blind
>
>
>
> /cmh
>
>
>
> cc:     Patrick Cannon
>
>          Mel Farmer
>
> Susan Turney
>
> Leamon Jones
>
>
>
>
>
>
>
> Carla Miller Haynes
>
> DLARA Michigan Commission for the Blind
>
> 201 N. Washington Sq., 2nd Floor
>
> P.O. Box 30652
>
> Lansing, MI  48909
>
> Phone:  517/373-2063
>
> FAX: 517/335-5140
>
>
>
> www.michigan.gov/mcb
>
>
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