The Society of Professional Journalists chapter at Central Michigan
University recently conducted a FOIA audit of the state’s 15 public
universities. It asked for a year’s worth of information on expenses from
the university presidents and governing boards, and also police reports on
campus sexual assaults. The goal: to compare how universities respond to
requests for public information, and how much they charge.

No university denied the requests. But the price to fulfill all of them
totaled more than $20,000. That ranged from Eastern Michigan University and
two other schools that offered records for free, to the University of
Michigan, where it would cost $2,774 just for presidential spending
records. UM attributed that cost to its estimate that it would take 46.5
staff hours to search for records, and many more to review and duplicate
documents.

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