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Commissioners approve $2,500 retainer for Taft Law to draft records-request policy
Summary
Fulton County commissioners voted 2-0 to retain Taft Law on a not-to-exceed $2,500 retainer to help draft an internal FOIA/APRA policy and clarify where residents should file records requests after several delayed responses and technical hurdles were raised during public comment.
Fulton County commissioners voted to hire Taft Law of Indianapolis on a not-to-exceed $2,500 retainer to help the county draft a consistent policy for handling FOIA/APRA records requests and to advise county staff on who should receive and process incoming requests.
The action followed more than an hour of discussion and public comment about delayed responses and confusing instructions for where to file requests. Brian, a commissioner who led the proposal, said the county had received “quite a few FOIA requests” recently and that his priority was transparency:…
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