The current fee structure is based on the number and type of copies
requested, the salary grade of the employee handling the information
request and time it takes to search for the requested information. The
bill would require that noncommercial information requests be filled by
the person with the lowest salary grade available. The information act
also provides two hours of information searching at no charge. The bill
would increase that time to five hours.
The fees would only apply to the "actual cost of production" of the information, Bevan-Dangel said.
The
bill also outlines monetary penalties for state agencies that deny
information and also shifts the burden of proof for a denial to the
agency, Bevan-Dangel said, "to show the public good is truly being
outweighed by the personal harm they're using to justify not sharing the
information."
http://www.baltimoresun.com/news/maryland/politics/blog/md-xgr--public-information-access-20150211-story.html
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