Open Records and a Minnesota School District

Landon Mion:

“The District has completed an extensive analysis of your 41-page, 332-paragraph data practices request,” the law firm representing the school district said in a letter to Mohrman, Kaardal, & Erickson. “The District estimates that it will take 13,478 hours to search for, retrieve, and make copies of the data. Using the employee with the lowest wage rate who would have the right to search for and retrieve the data that have been requested, and applying the actual cost of making copies, the District estimates that the actual cost of searching for, retrieving, and making copies is $901,121.15.”