 should the legislature pass a law that changes the freedom of information fees and penalties that are currently being imposed  yes no undecided freedom of information act amendments there is a cost of government as well as providing services for searching for reviewing copying and providing records to requestors public bodies are not libraries and house many confidential records and information about a host of subjects if the public expects a public body to act as a library with research assistance as well as still keeping certain information protected ie social security numbers home addresses and phone numbers medical etc expect for taxpayers to foot the bill for separating the material so some and fewer individuals can request access to records and browse indiscriminately at the cost of the taxpayers as a whole the bill s contents provide no meaningful cost recovery for fishing expeditions at your cost if everyone were to place requests for a sundry of records or information and the foia provisions on timeliness 5day response remain unchanged you also will be looking at increased personnel needs or forego critical and primary service functions while chasing the fish  