MPDN: Document Fee Hike Bad Idea

Item: Fee increases for Moscow public records is a bad idea /Sandra Kelly, Moscow-Pullman Daily News

More Info: The proposal before the council would make it more difficult and expensive for members of the public to access records they have every right to see. Given the limited number of instances cited to justify this proposed increase in cost, there is no legitimate reason for the council to approve these increases. It’s a slippery slope when someone in City Hall is given the bureaucratic tools to label a specific request to public information as somehow “excessive.”

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Question: What would be a good criteria for assessing costs for a public-documents request?