[nfbmi-talk] Fw: FOIA Response to Request for InformationonMinutes/Transcripts, State Plan and BSBP Directory

joe harcz Comcast joeharcz at comcast.net
Tue Oct 29 12:58:38 UTC 2013


It is precisely nepotism, waste, fraud and abuse they are trying to hide.


They are and have been hiring relatives, sighted ones at that to run BEP 
facilities that they illegally yanked the licences of blind operators.

There is no end to the utter and outright corruption of this outfit.



----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Terry D. Eagle" <terrydeagle at yahoo.com>
To: "'NFB of Michigan Internet Mailing List'" <nfbmi-talk at nfbnet.org>
Sent: Tuesday, October 29, 2013 8:06 AM
Subject: Re: [nfbmi-talk] Fw: FOIA Response to Request for 
InformationonMinutes/Transcripts, State Plan and BSBP Directory


> Just more BS4BP!   Wonder what conflict-of-interest Mr. Rodgers has to 
> hide
> here by preventing information disclosure through abusive and oppressive
> charging of fees?  Perhaps it is more highly paid unqualified and
> incompetent sighted and blind employees added to the taxpayer 
> rehabilitation
> funds feeding pen?
>
>
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: nfbmi-talk [mailto:nfbmi-talk-bounces at nfbnet.org] On Behalf Of joe
> harcz Comcast
> Sent: Monday, October 28, 2013 8:10 PM
> To: nfbmi-talk at nfbnet.org
> Cc: Christyne.Cavataio at ed.gov
> Subject: [nfbmi-talk] Fw: FOIA Response to Request for Information
> onMinutes/Transcripts, State Plan and BSBP Directory
>
>
> ----- 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)
> Sent: Monday, October 28, 2013 5:02 PM
> Subject: FOIA Response to Request for Information on Minutes/Transcripts,
> State Plan and BSBP Directory
>
>
> October 28, 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 Minutes/Transcripts, 
> State
> Plan and BSBP Staff Directory
>
>
>
> Dear Mr. Harcz, Jr.:
>
>
>
> This email is in response to your October 21, 2013, email requests for
> information, received by this office on October 22, 2013.  Please be 
> advised
> that the Bureau of Services for Blind Persons is processing these requests
> under the state's Freedom of Information Act (FOIA), MCL 15.231 et seq.
>
>
>
> You have requested information as described in your emails (which are also
> below) as:
>
>
>
> "You said at Saturday's NFB MI meeting that BSBP routinely posts 
> information
> related to commissioners meetings including minutes/transcripts and State
> Plan information which I've requested...
>
> Moreover even the office and staff directory has not been updated (see it
> and the link after my signature line for your convenience). In fact it
> doesn't even include you.  Now can you send me this stuff in accessible
> format without another ludicrous and illegal abuse of the FOIA?"
>
>
>
> (Description from email of 10-24-13 at 3:24PM): "Your name is listed but
> there are still many changes in the staff directory here which doesn't
> include those who have left the or new additions..."
>
>
>
> In regards to your request for minutes/transcripts, you previously 
> requested
> this information on August 9, 2014, and of which you received a response 
> on
> August 29, 2013, granting the information and requesting payment for these
> records.
>
> FOIA Response - P.J. Harcz, Jr.
>
> October 28, 2013
>
> Page 2 of 2
>
>
>
>
>
> To date, we have not received your payment for this request.  We are
> currently in the process of updating our website to include this
> information.
>
>
>
> In regards to your request for the State Plan for FY14, this document has
> been approved by the Rehabilitation Services Administration and has been
> posted to our website (www.michigan.gov/bsbp), under Resources.
>
>
>
> In regards to your request for an updated BSBP directory, 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 
> 12,
> 2013, for this portion of 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 12, 2013).  This email may
> 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
>
>
>
> Attachments:  Two Email Requests for Information
>
>
>
> cc:     Edward F. Rodgers II, Sue Luzenski
>
>          Mike Pemble, Katie Belknap
>
> Elsie Duell
>
>
>
> From: joe harcz Comcast [mailto:joeharcz at comcast.net]
> Sent: Monday, October 21, 2013 3:11 PM
> To: Rodgers, Edward (LARA)
> Cc: Zimmer, Mike (LARA); BSBPcommissioners; nfbmi-talk at nfbnet.org; Elmer
> Cerano (E-mail); BRIAN SABOURIN; Christyne.Cavataio at ed.gov
> Subject: information and access please basic directory and minutes
>
>
>
> October 21 2013 to Rodgers on BSBP Info including Directory
>
>
>
> Paul Joseph Harcz, Jr.
>
> joeharcz at comcast.net
>
> To Ed Rodgers, BSBP
>
> And BSBP Commissioners
>
> (via e-mail)
>
>
>
> Dear Mr. Rodgers,
>
>
>
> You said at Saturday's NFB MI meeting that BSBP routinely posts 
> information
> related to commissioners meetings including minutes/transcripts and State
> Plan information which I've requested. Simple fact that you and it does 
> not
> do so and all one needs do is visit the web site which I do.
>
>
>
> Moreover even the office and staff directory has not been updated (see it
> and the link after my signature line for your convenience). In fact it
> doesn't even include you.
>
>
>
> Now can you send me this stuff in accessible format without another
> ludicrous and illegal abuse of the FOIA? Or should I begin charging this
> federally funded entity for all the work and research I do like getting an
> accurate staff directory, minutes/transcripts and State Plan information
> for crying out loud?
>
>
>
> Sincerely,
>
>
>
> Paul Joseph Harcz, Jr.
>
>
>
> Cc: MPAS
>
> Cc: NFB MI
>
> Cc: RSA
>
>
>
>
>
>
>
>
>
>
>
>
>
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
>
> From: joe harcz Comcast [mailto:joeharcz at comcast.net]
>
> Sent: Monday, October 21, 2013 3:24 PM
>
> To: Rodgers, Edward (LARA)
>
> Cc: nfbmi-talk at nfbnet.org
>
> Subject: Fw: [nfbmi-talk] information and access please basic directory
> andminutes
>
>
>
> Sorry slight amendmendment here. Your name is listed but there are still
> many changes in the staff directory here which doesn't include those who
> have left the agency or new additions like say Mike Pemble, or Robert
> Essenberg since October 1, 2012.
>
> ----- Original Message -----
>
> From: "joe harcz Comcast" <joeharcz at comcast.net>
>
> To: "Rodgers, Edward (LARA)" <rodgerse at michigan.gov>
>
> Cc: <Christyne.Cavataio at ed.gov>; "Elmer Cerano (E-mail)" 
> <ecerano at aol.com>;
> <nfbmi-talk at nfbnet.org>; "BRIAN SABOURIN" <BSABOUR at mpas.org>;
> <bsbpcommissioners at michigan.gov>; <zimmerm at michigan.gov>
>
> Sent: Monday, October 21, 2013 3:11 PM
>
> Subject: [nfbmi-talk] information and access please basic directory
> andminutes
>
>
>
>
>
> October 21 2013 to Rodgers on BSBP Info including Directory
>
>
>
>
>
>
>
> Paul Joseph Harcz, Jr.
>
>
>
> joeharcz at comcast.net
>
>
>
> To Ed Rodgers, BSBP
>
>
>
> And BSBP Commissioners
>
>
>
> (via e-mail)
>
>
>
>
>
>
>
> Dear Mr. Rodgers,
>
>
>
>
>
>
>
> You said at Saturday's NFB MI meeting that BSBP routinely posts 
> information
> related to commissioners meetings including minutes/transcripts and State
> Plan information which I've requested. Simple fact that you and it does 
> not
> do so and all one needs do is visit the web site which I do.
>
>
>
>
>
>
>
> Moreover even the office and staff directory has not been updated (see it
> and the link after my signature line for your convenience). In fact it
> doesn't even include you.
>
>
>
>
>
>
>
> Now can you send me this stuff in accessible format without another
> ludicrous and illegal abuse of the FOIA? Or should I begin charging this
> federally funded entity for all the work and research I do like getting an
> accurate staff directory, minutes/transcripts and State Plan information 
> for
> crying out loud?
>
>
>
>
>
>
>
> Sincerely,
>
>
>
>
>
>
>
> Paul Joseph Harcz, Jr.
>
>
>
>
>
>
>
> Cc: MPAS
>
>
>
> Cc: NFB MI
>
>
>
> Cc: RSA
>
>
>
>
>
>
>
> Link:
>
>
>
> http://www.michigan.gov/lara/0,4601,7-154-61256_28313_33130-15006--,00.html
>
>
>
>
>
>
>
>
>
> 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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