On Fri, Sep 20, 2013 at 4:12 PM, Travis Biehn <tbiehn@gmail.com> wrote:
Forgive my ignorance but can't a mainstream news organization (as defied by the FOIA law) just duplicate your FOIA request?
They could - this sort of hack/approach has been controversial recently in the institutional FOIA community, where agencies may "aggregate" requests that they believe are part of a concerted effort to avoid fees by having multiple requestors each request subsets of the responsive records, since small requests are often processed without fees.
The suggestion isn't that, exactly, but FOIA response units are aware generally of efforts to reduce/avoid fees, so I wouldn't be surprised if this approach met with resistance.