[nfbmi-talk] Fw: FOIA Response to Request for Information on RSA-113 Reports

[joe harcz Comcast]

----- Original Message ----- 
From: joe harcz Comcast 
To: Haynes, Carla (LARA) 
Sent: Thursday, July 03, 2014 2:31 PM
Subject: Re: FOIA Response to Request for Information on RSA-113 Reports


What in the world does approval have to do with it? You've got the reports or you don't.

This is supersillious and outragious.

Paul Joseph Harcz, Jr.
  ----- Original Message ----- 
  From: Haynes, Carla (LARA) 
  To: joe harcz Comcast 
  Cc: Rodgers, Edward (LARA) ; Luzenski, Sue (LARA) ; Pemble, Mike (LARA) ; Belknap, Katie (LARA) ; Jones, Leamon (LARA) ; Gaston, Diamalyn (LARA) 
  Sent: Thursday, July 03, 2014 1:25 PM
  Subject: FOIA Response to Request for Information on RSA-113 Reports


  July 3, 2014

   

  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 RSA 113 Reports

   

  Dear Mr. Harcz, Jr.:

   

  This email is in response to your June 18, 2014, email request for information, received by this office on June 19, 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 as described in your email (which is also below) as:

   

  "Please remit all RSA 113 since you assumed the Directorship of BSBP as either Word attachments and/or plain text enclosures to my e-mail address listed above."

   

  Your request is denied as to existing, nonexempt information responsive to your request.  The reports for the time period you specified have not been approved by the Rehabilitation Services Administration (RSA).  Once approved, you will be able to view these reports on-line at https://rsa.ed.gov/about-your-state.cfm, (then choose Michigan, More RSA Programs).

   

  Under the provisions of MCL 15.240, Section 10(1) of the state's FOIA, you may (1) submit a written appeal regarding the disclosure denial of any


  FOIA Response - P.J. Harcz, Jr.

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  July 3, 2014

   

   

   

  portion of your FOIA request to Steve Arwood, Director, Michigan Department of Licensing and Regulatory Affairs, Attention: Michael Zimmer, Chief Deputy Director, P.O. Box 30004, Lansing, MI 48909.  Your appeal must include the word "appeal" and identify the reason(s) for reversal of any disclosure denials; or (2) you may file an action in an appropriate court within 180 days after this notice. If you prevail in court action, the court may award you reasonable attorney fees, costs, and disbursements. If the court finds the Department's actions to be arbitrary and capricious, the court shall award you, in addition to any actual or compensatory damages, punitive damages in the amount of $500.00.

   

  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: Wednesday, June 18, 2014 3:55 PM 

  To: Rodgers, Edward (LARA) 

  Cc: Mike Pemble BSBP Dep. Dir.; Luzenski, Sue (LARA); Marlene Malloy MCRS Dir.; Sarah Gravetti; 

  BRIAN SABOURIN; Christyne.Cavataio at ed.gov; BSBPcommissioners; Gary Gaynor; commissioner-

  hudson at outlook.com; nfbmi-talk at nfbnet.org 

  Subject: reiterated rsa 113 requests

   

  June 18 2014 RSA 113 BSBP Quarterly Caseload Reports

   

   

   

  Paul Joseph Harcz, Jr.

  1365 E. Mt. Morris Rd.

  Mt. Morris, MI 48458

  810-516-5262

  joeharcz at comcast.net

   

  To:

  Edward F. Rodgers II

  Mich. Bureau Services for Blind Persons

   

  (Via E-mail)

   

  Dear Mr. Rodgers,

   

  I've requested on several occasions accessible and timely delivery of BSBP's RSA 113 Quarterly Caseload Reports but have yet to receive them. Thus I reiterate this request once again. 

  To wit:

   

  Please remit all RSA 113 since you assumed the Directorship of BSBP as either Word attachments and/or plain text enclosures to my e-mail address listed above.

   

  By the way have you or your agents ever supplied these to the Michigan Council of Rehabilitation Services or the BSBP Commissioners?

   

  Regardless, thanks as always for your prompt and accessible response.

   

  Sincerely,

   

  Paul Joseph Harcz, Jr.

   

  Cc: MCRS

  Cc: CAP/MpAS

  Cc: BSBP Commission

  Cc: RSA

  Cc: NFB MI

  Cc: MP, SL, BSBP

   

   

  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