[nfbmi-talk] Fw: FOIA Response to Request for Office & Staff Directory

[joe harcz Comcast]

Still no accurate and  accessible even staff directory. Cone on folks is this a goodly customer response? Or what?
----- Original Message ----- 
From: joe harcz Comcast 
To: Haynes, Carla (LARA) 
Cc: Rodgers, Edward (LARA) ; Luzenski, Sue (LARA) ; Pemble, Mike (LARA) ; Belknap, Katie (LARA) 
Sent: Tuesday, August 19, 2014 11:20 PM
Subject: Re: FOIA Response to Request for Office & Staff Directory


Oh my today, this very office and staff directory has NOT been updated and never was to be so.

The real thing with the Snyder Administration including the employment of BSBP was and is to screw the public and to employ if they have to employ anyone the minimanal ammount of certified individuals. TThen the state must employ hacks, brothers, sisters, cousins and others unqualified.

Now, if I'm lying I'm dying here as they say.
  ----- Original Message ----- 
  From: Haynes, Carla (LARA) 
  To: joe harcz Comcast 
  Cc: Rodgers, Edward (LARA) ; Luzenski, Sue (LARA) ; Pemble, Mike (LARA) ; Belknap, Katie (LARA) 
  Sent: Thursday, April 03, 2014 4:56 PM
  Subject: FOIA Response to Request for Office & Staff Directory


  April 3, 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 Office & Staff Directory

   

  Dear Mr. Harcz, Jr.:

   

  This email is in response to your March 27, 2014, email request for information, received by this office on March 28, 2014.  Please be advised 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 that you describe as per your email (which is attached).

   

  "I am writing you today to receive an accurate and up-to-date office and staff directory."

   

  The current directory dated 1-8-14 is on our website at (www.michigan.gov/bsbp, then Resources).  This directory is generally updated on a quarterly basis, and is in the process of being updated.  For this reason, it is necessary to extend the time for response, as permitted by Section 5(2)(d) of the FOIA, through April 16, 2014, 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

   

   

  FOIA Response - P.J. Harcz, Jr.

  April 3, 2013

  Page 2 of 2

   

   

   

   

  that cost (before or no later than April 16, 2014).  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

   



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

  Sent: Thursday, March 27, 2014 9:07 AM 

  To: Rodgers, Edward (LARA) 

  Cc: Luzenski, Sue (LARA); Christyne.Cavataio at ed.gov; BRIAN SABOURIN; Marlene Malloy MCRS Dir. 

  Subject: updated and accurate directory please

   

  March 27, 2014

   

  To Rodgers Updated Staff Directory

   

  Paul Joseph Harcz, Jr.

  1365 E. Mt. Morris Rd.

  Mt. Morris, MI 48458

  810-516-5262

  joeharcz at comcast.net

   

  Re: BSBP Staff Directory

   

  To:

   

  Edward F. Rodgers II, Director

  Mich. Bureau of Services to Blind Persons

  (via e-mail)

   

  Dear Mr. Rodgers,

   

  I am writing you today to receive an accurate and up-to-date office and staff directory. Note the one on BSBP's web site at:

  http://www.michigan.gov/lara/0,4601,7-154-61256_28313_33130-15006--,00.html

   

  Is outdated as there have been major staff additions and changes. This is important for this is where potential customors and advocates for people who are blind find out how to access services and just who to call or write for them.

   

  So please send me an accurate one in known accessible format and please post an accurate and updated directory to the web site forthwith.

   

  Sincerely,

   

  Paul Joseph Harcz, Jr.

   

  Cc: RSA

  Cc: CAP

  Cc: MCRS

   

   

   

  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