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</o:shapelayout></xml><![endif]--></head><body lang=EN-US link="#0563C1" vlink="#954F72"><div class=WordSection1><p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:#44546A'>Since when did it become acceptable at the University of Idaho to use public records requests as a source of revenue?! And since when did it become acceptable at the UI to thumb its nose at the response times specified in Idaho Public Records Law?!<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:#44546A'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:blue'><a href="http://www.idahostatesman.com/sports/college/university-of-idaho/article104963721.html"><span style='color:blue'>http://www.idahostatesman.com/sports/college/university-of-idaho/article104963721.html</span></a><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:#44546A'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:#44546A'>“</span><span lang=EN style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:#333333'>The university charged the Tribune $911.14 to furnish the public records, which included 645 email communications sent by, and received by, both Staben and Spear. On May 3, university general counsel responded to an initial email sent by the Tribune, affirming the UI was in receipt of the records request. General counsel began collecting the emails on May 19, but didn't make them available until Aug. 29. According to Idaho law, public records requests must be granted or denied within 10 working days of the request.”</span><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:#44546A'><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:#44546A'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:12.0pt;color:#44546A'>It seems to me public institutions that have nothing nefarious to hide would hide nothing, and they certainly wouldn’t view as adversaries those trying to examine public records, which is our <b>right</b> to do. Nor would they erect insane financial barriers to public records access.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:12.0pt;color:#44546A'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:12.0pt;color:#44546A'>As Idaho’s Attorney General has written, “Open government is the cornerstone of a free society. The Idaho Legislature affirmed Idaho’s commitment to open government by enacting the Idaho public records law in 1990. The public records law protects each citizen’s right to monitor the actions of state and local government entities by providing access to government records.”<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:12.0pt;color:#44546A'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:12.0pt;color:#44546A'>I cannot help but wonder what else the UI is so desperately trying to keep hidden from the public eye </span><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:Wingdings;color:#44546A'>L</span><span style='font-size:12.0pt;color:#44546A'><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:12.0pt;color:#44546A'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:#44546A'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:#44546A'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:12.0pt;color:#44546A'>Saundra Lund<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:12.0pt;color:#44546A'>Moscow, ID<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:12.0pt;color:#44546A'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:12.0pt;color:#44546A'>I hold that, the more helpless a creature, the more entitled it is to protection by man from cruelty of man.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:12.0pt;color:#44546A'>~ Mahatma Ghandi<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:#44546A'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:#44546A'><o:p> </o:p></span></p></div></body></html>