[nfbmi-talk] Fw: Request to Request for Information

Sat Aug 17 13:54:31 UTC 2013

----- Original Message ----- 
From: joe harcz Comcast 
To: Haynes, Carla (LARA) 
Sent: Saturday, August 17, 2013 9:54 AM
Subject: Re: Request to Request for Information

I'm actually quite stunned by this response Carla and all.

You have the documents on your server, or Mr. Rodgers does, and they cost nothing, I repeat nothing to look up and simply foward.

Joe Harcz

cc: rsa
cc: nfb mi
  ----- Original Message ----- 
  From: Haynes, Carla (LARA) 
  To: joe harcz Comcast (joeharcz at comcast.net) 
  Cc: Rodgers, Edward (LARA) ; Luzenski, Sue (LARA) ; Pemble, Mike (LARA) ; Belknap, Katie (LARA) ; Duell, Elsie (LARA) 
  Sent: Friday, August 16, 2013 3:59 PM
  Subject: Request to Request for Information

  August 16, 2013

  Mr. Paul Joseph Harcz, Jr.

  E-mail: joeharcz at comcast.net

  1365 E. Mt. Morris Rd.

  Mt. Morris, MI 48458

  RE:  Request for Information

  Dear Mr. Harcz, Jr.:

  This email is in response to your August 9, 2013, email request for copies of records, received on August 12, 2013, in this office.  Please be informed that the Bureau of Services for Blind Persons (BSBP) is processing this request under the state's Freedom of Information Act (FOIA), MCL 15.231 et seq.

  You have requested information as described in your email as:

  "-The recent state plan submission made to RSA

  -All of the transcripts of the "commission" meetings to date"

  In order to determine the extent of the research time, the size and number of records of nonexempt information within the BSBP responsive to your request, a search must be undertaken.  For this reason, it is necessary to extend the time for response, as permitted by Section 5(2)(d) of the FOIA, through August 30, 2013.

  If it is determined that there is a cost involved in the processing of this request, you will be sent a letter which will include an invoice outlining that cost (before or no later than August 30, 2013).  This letter may either request a deposit (if the cost is over $50.00) or request payment for the total cost if the amount is under $50.00.

  Letter - P.J. Harcz, Jr.

  August 16, 2013

  Page 2 of 2

  Sincerely,

  Carla Miller Haynes, FOIA Coordinator

  Bureau of Services for Blind Persons

  Attachment - Email of 8-9-13

  cc:     Edward F. Rodgers II

            Sue Luzenski

  Mike Pemble

  Katie Belknap

            Elsie Duell

  Email Attachment:

  From: joe harcz Comcast [mailto:joeharcz at comcast.net] 

  Sent: Friday, August 09, 2013 1:03 PM

  To: Rodgers, Edward (LARA)

  Cc: Marlene Malloy MRC Dir; Craig McManus RSA; nfbmi-talk at nfbnet.org; MARK MCWILLIAMS

  Subject: requestfor information ada etc

  August 9 2013 Request BSBP

  Paul Joseph Harcz, Jr.

  1365 E. Mt. Morris Rd.

  Mt. Morris, MI  48458

  joeharcz at comcast.net

  To: Ed Rodgers

  Director Bureau of Services for Blind Persons

  (Via E-mail)

  Dear Mr. Rodgers,

  As an advocate who is blind I am requesting the following accessible information from you:

  -The recent state plan submission made to RSA

  -All of the transcripts of the "commissions" meetings to date

  I make these requests in accordance with known obligations under both Title I, and Section 504 of the Rehabilitation Act of 1973, as well as those requiring effective communications (without surcharge) pursuant to Title II, of the Americans with Disabilities Act of 1990 (subpart e, communications).

  To wit: I request the documents are sent to me as either Word attachments, or plain text enclosures to my e-mail address listed above for  I use screen reading technology.

  I thank you in advance for your prompt and accessible response.

  Sincerely,

  Paul Joseph Harcz, Jr.

  Cc: file

  Cc: NFB MI

  Cc: MPAS

  Cc: MCRC

  Cc: several

  Carla Miller Haynes

  LARA Bureau of Services for Blind Persons (BSBP)

  201 N. Washington Square, 2nd Floor

  P.O. Box 30652

  Lansing, MI  48909

  Telephone:  517-373-2063 or Toll-Free 1-800-292-4200

  Fax:  517-335-5140

  www.michigan.gov/bsbp