explaining the new law and whether you believe it’s fair to journalists, other records requesters, and the public’s interest by Sept. 28.
I think it’s really interesting that there is a model request form, which I didn’t know about. I also didn’t know that you could have to pay to receive the open records (it makes sense why you would have to – I just never thought about that) and that some of them could cost up to $500.. what would be an example of an open records retrieval that costs $500?
I personally don’t understand why they changed the law…They changed it from 3 days to 90. Ninety days to ONLY respond to the requester, the requester could still then wait even longer to receive the open records. I think it should have stayed at three days or they could have made it three to 5 business days to respond back to the requester. Ninety days is entirely too long and I think it’s unfair to journalists and everyone else who uses open records because if you’re trying to right a story or whatever you’re doing with the open records, and you need information that can only be obtained through open records, you’re going to have to wait a long time to even hear back.
I think changing the law was fine, but I’m not sure why they decided on 90 days. I personally think three days to a week is enough time to decide if you’re going to accept or deny the request.
Reading the article about Fetty Wap’s performance here at UGA is very interesting to me, as I attended that concert. I personally think performer’s riders are insane. I would love to know how much of that food actually got eaten (I know there are a lot of crew members and what not that need to be fed).