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Re:A “Rat” Every 14 Seconds: Analyzing NYC 311 Calls by chrisseaton on Friday June 14, 2019 @07:16PM (#20187434)
Always? No exceptions? You can't conceive of any situation whatsoever that spending time responding to a frivolous freedom of information request is a better use of a civil servant's time over meeting an actual immediate need of a member of the public?
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Re:A “Rat” Every 14 Seconds: Analyzing NYC 311 Calls by naikrovek on Friday June 14, 2019 @07:35PM (#20187524)
Freedom of information is not frivolous.
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Re:A “Rat” Every 14 Seconds: Analyzing NYC 311 Calls by chrisseaton on Friday June 14, 2019 @07:40PM (#20187555)
I can see you editing your comment out from underneath my response, removing your abuse of public servants.

No individual freedom of information request can be frivolous? I can't understand how someone can think it can never be a waste of finite time and resources to respond to a request.

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Re:A “Rat” Every 14 Seconds: Analyzing NYC 311 Calls by mulmen on Friday June 14, 2019 @08:21PM (#20187705)
Transparency does not inherently require a request.
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