Thursday, December 15, 2011

Should I have to pay to get information about me under the Freedom of Information act?

At university to get our exam papers back with the examiners' notes on them, we need to pay a fee of 拢10, but should we need to do this when the information is legally entitled to us by the Freedom of Information Act?|||FOIA normally applies to government agencies.





You could try and file a claim citing what you think is the relevant portion of the Act, but good luck with that.|||That fee is to cover the costs of labor and materials.|||Yes, unless you can retrieve them yourself your paying for their service.|||You are not asking for information, you are asking for paperwork. These would probably be copies and you need to pay for the person doing the copying and the materials.|||I don't know about Britain, even if it has a Freedom of Information Act, but in US, the FOIA applies ONLY to government agencies, and they can charge copying fees.

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