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Council presses law department on FOIA backlog and previously budgeted paralegal funding
Summary
Council members asked why FOIA requests have grown and why a funded paralegal position was not filled; Calloway moved FOIA matters into executive session for follow-up.
Council member Angela Whitfield Calloway asked the law department for details about Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) workload, response times and why a previously budgeted paralegal position for FOIA processing was not used.
Conrad Mallett and the department’s FOIA lead said the law department handled about 9,754 FOIA requests in the prior calendar year and that the number of requests has grown. The law department said that in many…
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