[nfbmi-talk] Fw: FOIA Response to Request for Information on SSARemibursement for FY13

Fri Nov 1 16:36:28 UTC 2013

No, there is no money in it!
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From: "joe harcz Comcast" <joeharcz at comcast.net>
To: <nfbmi-talk at nfbnet.org>
Cc: "Elmer Cerano MPAS" <ECERANO at mpas.org>; <Christyne.Cavataio at ed.gov>
Sent: Friday, November 01, 2013 12:28 PM
Subject: [nfbmi-talk] Fw: FOIA Response to Request for Information on 
SSARemibursement for FY13

Can't they answer a simple question?
----- Original Message ----- 
From: Haynes, Carla (LARA)
To: joe harcz Comcast
Cc: Rodgers, Edward (LARA) ; Luzenski, Sue (LARA) ; Pemble, Mike (LARA) ; 
Belknap, Katie (LARA) ; Duell, Elsie (LARA) ; Jones, Leamon (LARA) ; Gaston, 
Diamalyn (LARA)
Sent: Friday, November 01, 2013 10:43 AM
Subject: FOIA Response to Request for Information on SSA Remibursement for 
FY13

November 1, 2013

Mr. Paul Joseph Harcz, Jr.

E-mail: joeharcz at comcast.net

1365 E. Mt. Morris Rd.

Mt. Morris, MI 48458

Re:  FOIA Response to Request for Information on SSA Reimbursements for FY13

Dear Mr. Harcz, Jr.:

This email is in response to your October 24, 2013, email request for 
information, received by this office on October 25, 2013.  Please be advised 
that the Bureau of Services for Blind Persons 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 (also included 
below) as:

"I am writing you all today to request just how much BSBP was reimbursed 
last FY by SSA for successful closures."

In order to determine the extent of the research time, the size and number 
of records of nonexempt information within 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 
November 15, 2013, for your request.

If it is determined that there is a cost involved in the processing of this 
request, you will be sent an email which will include an invoice outlining 
that cost (before or no later than November 15, 2013).  This email may

FOIA Response - P.J. Harcz, Jr.

November 1, 2013

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either request a deposit (if the cost is over $50.00) or request payment of 
the total cost if the amount is under $50.00.

Please note that nothing within the federal American with Disabilities Act 
(ADA ), Section 504 of the Rehabilitation Act of 1973 (RA), as amended, or 
the state's FOIA (MCL 15.231 et seq.) requires a public body to process FOIA 
requests free of charge.  Further, while the ADA and Section 504 of the RA 
may mandate that, upon request, material be produced in an accessible format 
without charge, neither the ADA or Section 504 of the RA preclude a public 
body from charging costs under the state's FOIA. Thusly, please note that no 
labor fee charges have been, or will be, assessed to convert existing, 
nonexempt public records responsive to your requests into an accessible 
format to forward to you.

Sincerely,

Carla Miller Haynes, FOIA Coordinator

Bureau of Services for Blind Persons

Attachment:  Email Request for Information

cc:     Edward F. Rodgers II

          Sue Luzenski

          Mike Pemble

Katie Belknap

          Elsie Duell

          Leamon Jones

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

Sent: Thursday, October 24, 2013 3:52 PM

To: Rodgers, Edward (LARA)

Cc: Zimmer, Mike (LARA); BSBPcommissioners; nfbmi-talk at nfbnet.org; 
Christyne.Cavataio at ed.gov;

BRIAN SABOURIN; Elmer Cerano (E-mail); MARK MCWILLIAMS; Marlene Malloy

Subject: ssa reimbursement and state plan info

October 24 2013 to Rodgers SSA Reimbursement and State Plan Info

Paul Joseph Harcz, Jr.

1365 E. Mt. Morris Rd.

Mt. Morris, MI 48458

joeharcz at comcast.net

810-516-5262

To: Edward Rodgers, BSBP

S. Michael Zimmer, LARA DSA

(Via E-mail)

Sirs,

I am writing you all today to request just how much BSBP was reimbursed last 
FY by SSA for successful closures. Now, as you might know data like this is 
required to be in public reports which you've both denied me in public 
including an accessible copy of the State Plan Supplement.

So give it up, without charge and in accessible format and/or post this 
information to the BSBP web site as Mr. Rodgers said was done in public but, 
in fact is not done to date.

Failure to remit this information in a timely and accessible manner and/or 
abusing the FOIA as you've done in the past is actionable and will be 
further evidence of your chronic, pervasive and malicious violations in 
documented fashion of my and, indeed all blind persons civil rights.

Sincerely,

Paul Joseph Harcz, Jr.

Cc: BSBP

Cc: RSA

Cc: MPAS

Cc: NFB MI

Cc: several media, legislators, and attorneys at law

810-516-5262

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

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