[nfbmi-talk] Fw: FOIA Response to Request for Information on Expenses for E. Rodgers Attendance at NFB MI Convention

[joe harcz Comcast]

----- Original Message ----- 
From: joe harcz Comcast 
To: Haynes, Carla (LARA) 
Sent: Thursday, October 31, 2013 7:56 PM
Subject: Re: FOIA Response to Request for Information on Expenses for E. Rodgers Attendance at NFB MI Convention


Here is a simple question: Did Edward Rodgers and his cohorts at BSBP get funded to attened  this convention?

And did you all have to go on some sort of search to pay for this son of a gun's attendance and his lies at same?
  ----- 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: Wednesday, October 30, 2013 11:30 AM
  Subject: FOIA Response to Request for Information on Expenses for E. Rodgers Attendance at NFB MI Convention


  October 30, 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 Expenses for Edward Rodgers II for Attendance at the NFB MI Convention

   

  Dear Mr. Harcz, Jr.:

   

  This email is in response to your October 23, 2013, email request for information, received by this office on October 24, 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 today to send me the "group billing" for lodging and other expenses (including personnel) for your attendance at the recent NFB MI State convention.

   

  I also wish to know who was the driver of the state car used for this important convention."

   

  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 14, 2013, for your request.

  FOIA Response - P.J. Harcz, Jr.

  October 30, 2013

  Page 2 of 2

   

   

  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 14, 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

   

  Attachment:  Email Request 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: Wednesday, October 23, 2013 10:49 AM 

  To: Rodgers, Edward (LARA) 

  Cc: nfbmi-talk at nfbnet.org 

  Subject: group billing request nfb mi convention

   

  October 23 2013 to Rodgers Group Billing NFB MI Convention

   

  Paul Joseph Harcz, Jr.

  1365 E. Mt. Morris Rd.

  Mt. Morris, MI 48458

  joeharcz at comcast.net

  810-516-5262

   

  To: Edward Rodgers, Director BSBP

   

  Dear Sir,

   

  I am writing you today to send me the "group billing" for lodging and other expenses (including personnel) for your attendance at the recent NFB MI State convention.

   

  I also wish to know who was the driver of the state car used for this important convention.

   

  You may send this to me in accessible format which by now you are quite aware of.

   

  Thank you, by the way for attending and for your responsive and enlighten comments to all.

   

  Sincerely,

   

  Paul Joseph Harcz, Jr.

   

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

              

   

  Cc: NFB MI

   

   

  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