Reply #139: Good luck.

[troubleinwinter]

I lasted all of about 9 hours on the site (having registered there only AFTER she posted my personal information on her site publicly in April... name and location, later scrubbed to be a bit more innocuous). Then she banned me from her site.

She outed my information because of my DU post stating that FOIA results were not available on her site a year & a half after the funding solicitations.

Pertinent portion of my original DU post:

To this date, a year and a half after the election, I cannot find an accounting of how many FOIAs were sent, how many were/were not complied with fully or partially.

After she wasted a hundred 'brazilian' words where I was invited to sift through 100,000s of pages, none of which answered my question, I asked again...

Is this to say that only five counties out of 3000 have complied, all of them in Forida? Evidently at this point three counties' documents are posted.

Volusia
Palm Beach
Pinellas
Lucas (docs were lost and replacements have not been scanned or reposted)
Broward (have not been scanned or posted)

Perhaps there is a more complete list you can direct me to.

She responds:

Our working system for this has been to have a giant dry erase board in the office listing the jurisdictions, status, and which ones are the "hot" ones for additional follow up, along with the staff assignment. In additiona, we have an Excel spreadsheet -- two, actually, we don't have the stuff consolidated onto one, for boring reasons.

I try again:

Is there a database listing each FOIA and which have been complied with, and/or or responed to? Surely there must be a tally of some sort.

After more nonsense, I try again:

My query is simple: How many responses were received to the FOIAs regarding election 11/02/04? Which complied or gave other responses?

And again:

Why is this like pulling teeth? It seems an obvious and clear-cut question. HOW MANY FOIAs WERE COMPLIED WITH? HOW MANY WERE NOT?

And again:

I have already indicated my qestion: "My query is simple: How many responses were received to the FOIAs regarding election 11/02/04? Which complied or gave other responses?" I have managed to divine from your site that six counties, all in Florida, responded, and four have been posted. That is the extent of information I have been able to distill down thus far.

One of her more typical responses:

"How many FOIAs were complied with and how many were not" is not answerable without establishing definitions as to what qualifies as "complied with." We can set those definitions if you provide information on what you need the information for.

You won't get any answers. It's just pissing in the wind to try. She seems to think that providing this sort of information to the public (who funded the effort) is a waste of time, because she has "six things to do before breakfast".

You will get a great many words.... thousands. But likely no answers.

Really, were I you, I'd save my energy. Go work with the organizations that are truly working on the issue. Don't waste your time.