[nfbmi-talk] add oma violations to the mix

[joe harcz Comcast]

October 24 2013 to Rodgers with OMA Cite

 

Dear Mr. Rodgers,

 

In addition to the attached request for simple minutes I cite the following from the Michigan Open Meetings Act which you an officer of the court should be familiar with and which you have constantly violated:

“Am. 1996, Act 464, Imd. Eff. Dec. 26, 1996. 

15.269 Minutes. Sec. 9. (1) Each public body shall keep minutes of each meeting showing the date, time, place, members 

present, members absent, any decisions made at a meeting open to the public, and the purpose or purposes for 

which a closed session is held. The minutes shall include all roll call votes taken at the meeting. The public 

body shall make any corrections in the minutes at the next meeting after the meeting to which the minutes 

refer. The public body shall make corrected minutes available at or before the next subsequent meeting after 

correction. The corrected minutes shall show both the original entry and the correction. 

(2) Minutes are public records open to public inspection, and a public body shall make the minutes 

available at the address designated on posted public notices pursuant to section 4. The public body shall make 

copies of the minutes available to the public at the reasonable estimated cost for printing and copying. (3) A public body shall make proposed minutes available for public inspection within 8 business days after 

the meeting to which the minutes refer. The public body shall make approved minutes available for public Rendered Wednesday, May 10, 2006 Page 4 Michigan Compiled Laws Complete Through PA 132 of 2006 

inspection within 5 business days after the meeting at which the minutes are approved by the public body. “

 

 

 

 

Now amongst other bodies that fulfill these requirements and more for people with disabilities are the MI SILC and MCRS which routinely post draft meeting minutes upon their web sites as well as “packets” of information made available to the SRC members and SILC members. They also have always provided me with accessible information upon request in accessible format without charge.

 

In short they follow the letter and spirit of these laws including the ADA and the very Rehabilitation Act that funds and creates them (just like BSBP). You on the other hand have violated chronically, perniciously, and maliciously these obligations continuously and in publicly documented fashion.

 

‘Now we can add OMA violations (which by the way can be a misdemeanor) to your list of violations of law and equity.

 

 

Sincerely,

 

Paul Joseph Harcz, Jr.

 

Cc: RSA

Cc: MPAS

Cc: NFB MI

CC: Zimmer, Arwood LARA DSA

Cc: DOJ

Cc: several legislators and media

Cc: BSBP Commissioners

Cc: EOC

 

Attachment for reference:

 

 

 

 

 

October 23 2013 Written Report of Hull to EOC and Draft Meeting Minutes

 

Paul Joseph Harcz, Jr.

1365 E. Mt. Morris Rd.

Mt. Morris Rd.

Mt. Morris, MI 48458

joeharcz at comcast.net

810-516-5262

 

To: Edward Rodgers

Bureau of Services for Blind Persons

James Hull, Business Enterprise Program

(Via E-mail)

 

All,

 

I just got through listening to a recording of the public meeting of the Elected Operators committee Meeting of Sept. 28, 2013.

 

Now, I’m writing to request the following:

 

The draft minutes of this meeting which are supposed to be made available within (8) working days under the Michigan Open Meetings Act (and with no charge by the way).

 

In addition I am requesting in accessible format all referenced information including the written report of James Hull again in accessible format that was referenced in this meeting.

 

Note: under relevant portions of the ADA and Section 504 and, indeed LARA’s own accessible meeting policy based upon these laws, all printed information related to such meetings were to be made accessible at that meeting and certainly are to be made accessible at no cost to me upon request.

 

 

And certainly you can’t charge me extensively for searching for these documents which you all have at your ready and would be using an abuse of the FOIA (a state law) to trump clearly required meeting related documents under the two above cited federal civil rights laws.

 

That would be a violation of the general anti-discrimination provisions of both the ADA and 504.

 

Back to Hull’s report, I am especially interested in his written report relative to Administrative reviews, license revocations, etc.

 

 

Now, all I request is that you send me promptly these documents and reports as either/or Word attachments; plain text enclosures to my e-mail adress listed above.

 

A failure to promtly comply with this request for simple minutes and written reports to this meeting is actionable and will represent continued violations against my person of established civil rights laws.

 

Thus I do expect a prompt response. And by the way you also might wish to in a timely manner post this information to BSBP’s web site.

 

Sincerely,

 

Paul Joseph Harcz, Jr.

 

-Ninety-nine percent of lawyers give the other one percent a bad name—Steven Wright

 

Cc: NFB MI

Cc: BSBP “Commissioners”

Cc: James Chaney, EOC

Cc: MCRC

Cc: MPAS

Cc: RSA

Cc: OCR

Cc: United States Department of Justice, Civil Rights Division, Disabilities Rights Section

Cc: several media

Cc: several legislators