Montana Sec. of State out-of-state travel forms 2013-14
| Submitted | July 21, 2014 |
| Est. Completion | None |
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From: Troy Carter
To Whom It May Concern:
Pursuant to Montana's Constitution, Article II, § 9, I hereby request the following records:
Copies of all "Request and Justification for out-of-state travel" forms submitted in 2013, and to the most recent date possible in 2014, by employees of the Montana Secretary of State's office.
I also request that, if appropriate, fees be waived as I believe this request is in the public interest. The requested documents will be made available to the general public free of charge as part of the public information service at MuckRock.com, processed by a representative of the news media/press and is made in the process of news gathering and not for commercial usage.
In the event that fees cannot be waived, I would be grateful if you would inform me of the total charges in advance of fulfilling my request. I would prefer the request filled electronically, by e-mail attachment if available or CD-ROM if not.
Thank you in advance for your anticipated cooperation in this matter. I would request your response within ten (10) business days.
Sincerely,
Troy Carter
From: MuckRock.com
To Whom It May Concern:
I wanted to follow up on the following Freedom of Information request, copied below, and originally submitted on July 21, 2014. Please let me know when I can expect to receive a response, or if further clarification is needed.
Thank you for your help.
From: Kimmet, Lisa
Please send public records requests to the SOS legal department at: Jquintana@mt.gov and Jwolf@mt.gov. I have been forwarding them for you, but wanted you to know the appropriate addresses to send any future requests to. Thanks!
Lisa Kimmet, Deputy
Elections and Government Services Division
Office of Montana Secretary of State Linda McCulloch
406.444.5376
www.sos.mt.gov
From: MuckRock
Hello,
The following public records request should have been sent to your office. Please confirm that you've now received it.
Thank you so much.
From: MuckRock
Hi Lisa,
Thank you for your message, and thank you for sending the requests to the proper office!
From: Secretary of State
A letter stating the requester must agree to or prepay assessed or estimated fees in order for the agency to continue processing the request.
From: MuckRock.com
To Whom It May Concern:
I wanted to follow up on the following Freedom of Information request, copied below, and originally submitted on July 21, 2014. Please let me know when I can expect to receive a response, or if further clarification is needed.
Thank you for your help.
From: Wolf, Jeanne
Dear Mr. Carter -- Please see the attached letter that was sent out on Monday. Please direct any further e-mailed public records requests for the Secretary of State to the following e-mail address: secretary@mt.gov.
From: Troy Carter
Dear Sec. of State,
Can the request not be fulfilled electronically?
Many thanks,
Troy Carter
Bozeman Daily Chronicle
From: Wolf, Jeanne
Dear Mr. Carter -- the records you have asked for do not currently exist in electronic format. Therefore, they would need to be converted to electronic format and the Secretary of State would need to collect a fee in advance based on Mont. Code Ann. 2-6-110 and ARM 44.2.204. Therefore, the charge for providing the documents electronically would be $15.92 collected in advance.
Please advise me how you'd like to proceed.
Jeanne Wolf
Paralegal
Montana Secretary of State's Office
(406) 444-4277
(406) 444-4249 (FAX)