Ugha 1A
| Submitted | May 13, 2024 |
| Est. Completion | June 4, 2024 |
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Communications
From: Andrew Free
To Whom It May Concern:
Pursuant to the Georgia Open Records Act, I hereby request the following records:
Any email, text, or voicemail message sent or received by the Dean of the Law School between January 1, 2024, and May 13, 2024, containing TWO or more of any of the following terms:
“Open records lawsuit”
“Open records suit”
“Open records act”
“APF”
“Atlanta Police Foundation”
“Atlanta Community Press Collective”
“ACPC”
“Cop City”
“Open records”
“Public records”
“Endowment”
“Public Safety Training Center”
“Troutman Pepped”
“Simon Bloom”
“First Amendment clinic”
The requested documents will be made available to the general public, and this request is not being made for commercial purposes.
In the event that there are fees, 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 look forward to receiving your response to this request within 3 business days, as the statute requires.
Sincerely,
Andrew Free
From: Muckrock Staff
To Whom It May Concern:
I wanted to follow up on the following Georgia Open Records Act request, copied below, and originally submitted on May 13, 2024. Please let me know when I can expect to receive a response.
Thanks for your help, and let me know if further clarification is needed.
From: University of Georgia
Mr. Free-
This is in response to your request for documents under the Georgia Open Records Act that arrived after normal business hours Monday, May 13, 2024. For the purposes of the three-day response, we deem your request to be received Tuesday, May 14, 2024. This reply is in accordance with the three-day period of response pursuant to O.C.G.A. § 50-18-71(b)(2).
You have requested the following:
Any email, text, or voicemail message sent or received by the Dean of the Law School between January 1, 2024, and May 13, 2024, containing TWO or more of any of the following terms:
"Open records lawsuit"
"Open records suit"
"Open records act"
"APF"
"Atlanta Police Foundation"
"Atlanta Community Press Collective"
"ACPC"
"Cop City"
"Open records"
"Public records"
"Endowment"
"Public Safety Training Center"
"Troutman Pepped"
"Simon Bloom"
"First Amendment clinic"
With respect to your request, we have reached out to where responsive records may exist so that we can prepare search, retrieval, review, and production time/cost estimates. We anticipate having an update for you by June 4, 2024, if not sooner.
Regards,
Bob Taylor
Division of Marketing & Communications
Open Records Manager
Hodgson Oil Building, Suite 200 N | 286 Oconee St. | Athens, GA 30602
706-542-8090 | btaylor@uga.edu<mailto:btaylor@uga.edu> | www.uga.edu<http://www.uga.edu/>
[University of Georgia]
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From: Andrew Free
Mr. Taylor -
Thank you very much.
Andrew Free
From: Andrew Free
Mr. Taylor -
I write to bring a serious discrepancy to your attention.
In your May 17 response, which you claim to send in compliance with the Georgia Open Records Act’s 3-day requirement, you claimed that you “reached out” to determine what records exit and how much time it will take to retrieve and review them.
But your response to a separate records request we filed showed you did not do this. https://www.muckrock.com/foi/georgia-230/ugha-1a-meta-163873/.
We are seriously concerned about what appears to be either (a) a material misrepresentation in response to this request about steps your office took to respond to it, which demonstrates noncompliance with the 3-day response deadline; or (b) an inadequate search and response to our meta-ORA request for whatever records you created.
Put simply, if you did what you said in you did in your May 17 response, there’d have been been records showing that in your response to the meta-ORA. But there weren’t.
Please advise.
From: University of Georgia
Mr. Free-
This is a follow-up response to your Open Records Act request for the following:
Any email, text, or voicemail message sent or received by the Dean of the Law School between January 1, 2024, and May 13, 2024, containing TWO or more of any of the following terms:
"Open records lawsuit"
"Open records suit"
"Open records act"
"APF"
"Atlanta Police Foundation"
"Atlanta Community Press Collective"
"ACPC"
"Cop City"
"Open records"
"Public records"
"Endowment"
"Public Safety Training Center"
"Troutman Pepped"
"Simon Bloom"
"First Amendment clinic"
With respect to your request, the Georgia Open Records Act allows charges for search, retrieval, review, redaction, and production in connection with compliance; provided, however, that no charge is made for the first quarter-hour. Our search, retrieval, review, redaction, and production charges in complying with this request will be 9.2 hours for a total estimate of $429.60, requiring 30 business days for production. The Act also allows for an agency to defer search and retrieval of records until the requester agrees to pay the estimated costs. We ask that you provide confirmation, in writing, to us that you agree to pay these estimated charges. The search yielded 127 MB of material, all of which must be reviewed prior to production for potential redactions.
We understand that this is a large estimate, but we are willing to work with you. Perhaps you may want to narrow the scope of your request, either time frame and/or search terms/phrases.
At this point, we expect some records and information within records may be exempt from release in accordance with O.C.G.A. § 50-18-72(a)(1), (20)(A), (21), (29), (37), (41), and (42). This also would include the Family Educational Rights and Privacy Act (FERPA) (20 U.S.C. § 1232g; 34 CFR Part 99).
Please let us know how you would like to proceed.
Regards,
Bob Taylor
Division of Marketing & Communications
Open Records Manager
Hodgson Oil Building, Suite 200 N | 286 Oconee St. | Athens, GA 30602
706-542-8090 | btaylor@uga.edu<mailto:btaylor@uga.edu> | www.uga.edu<http://www.uga.edu/>
[University of Georgia]
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