Wednesday, June 27, 2012

TC EMAIL REVIEW WOULD COST $100,000 - PLUS

In an effort to find out what our wonderful Township Committee is using its official emails for, I sought a public records request seeking all emails from the current TC members dating back to Jan. 1, 2010.


I did not expect there was any misuse, but rather curious as I know all of them are very much in touch with the public, especially Mayor Vic De Luca. However, I would be interested to see how.


My initial requests for this information produced a letter from township officials seeking exact dates sought and other information. 






I responded stating I wanted to see all of those emails, in many ways to see how many were sent. 


It turns out the township contends each email must be reviewed to determine if it contained personal or confidential information. The cost for reviewing the 75,000 emails that have been sent by the five TC members - more than $100,000.


This seems a bit restrictive, but perhaps not. Here is the response for your review:


There is apparently precedent for this, a government entity invoking a "special services charge" for big projects. But is the fee too high?

So if I want to find out what the Township Committee has been sending in official e-mails, I guess I have to wait or fork over some big cash. Democracy at its finest.

18 comments:

  1. I am an electronic evidence discovery expert and Maplewood resident. Collection and review of email and similar types of materials is, indeed, costly and time-consuming. If you don't want to risk spending that much of our tax dollars, I suggest you work with the TC to narrow the request.

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    1. I see the charge will babs@effluvia.com to you and not MWD. Again, narrow your request to save collecting, processing and review costs.

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  2. I would suggest just asking for emails that are sent to non-govt addresses. Why would there be personal information or confidential information outbound? And then no justification for needing to individually review them. And now it should cost about... 15 mins of the email admin's time.

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