Are Police In Michigan Stealing Cellphone Info?
Found on Techland on Tuesday, 19 April 2011
The Michigan chapter of the American Civil Liberties Union has accused the MSP of using devices to extract information from the cellphones of drivers they've pulled over without the owner's knowledge.
The MSP has issued a statement saying that it will provide information about the devices and what they've been used to capture, "in accordance with the Freedom of Information Act," but added that "there may be a processing fee to search for, retrieve, examine and separate exempt material." That fee, according to Fancher, has been estimated around $500,000.
That's one way to deal with FOIA request: make it so ridiculously expensive that the one asking cannot afford it.