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County seeks state change to address surge of AI‑generated and vexatious FOIA requests
Summary
County staff told the Legislative Committee they are experiencing floods of automated and repetitious Freedom of Information Act requests and asked the committee to pursue state law changes allowing public bodies to treat bot‑generated and vexatious requesters as unduly burdensome and to request Public Access Counselor review.
Lake County staff briefed the Legislative Committee on a recent surge in Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) requests that county departments attribute to a small number of individuals and to automated, AI‑generated submissions. Betsy Brandon, assistant to the county administrator and a former FOIA coordinator, told the committee that one individual filed roughly 230 requests across county departments within about 3 1/2 months and that many requests are broad, repetitive and time‑consuming to process.
Betsy asked the committee to support state…
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