City of Chicago Denies Request for Records on How $57M Was Spent on Migrant Shelter Staffing
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This might be the most bold lie I have seen come out of a city Government.
Hahahaha. The 'burden' of redacting records. So don't redact them you pussies.
I've never seen this excuse used outside of Pfizer. Did Pfizer tell politicians to start using it too?
They (in theory) fucking work for us!
Imagine if you told your employee to do something, and they said it was too burdensome to their time. You'd fucking fire them.
Shaniqua can't be bothered to actually do work
This is not for them to decide and the burden isn't actually heavy.
They are just trying to hide an obvious instance of Gibs me Dat corruption.
Entirely corrupt yes, but do FOIAs apply to city governments? I'm pretty sure if the federal government could simply reject all FOIAs because it costs money, they would.
Yes, FOIA's can be used at basically every level of Government, including state and city.
This is a first though outside of Pfizer, nobody else has tried claiming that the information "isn't worth the effort" of the city to produce.
https://www.doj.state.or.us/oregon-department-of-justice/public-records/attorney-generals-public-records-and-meetings-manual/i-public-records/
Here's a good resource to show just how little they want you using FOIA's. They try to make it seem incredibly complicated and borderline illegal so you won't do it.
Until Republicans start offering the same kind of gimmedats to their supporters, things will keep getting worse.