The Virginia Freedom of Information Advisory Council advises custodians of records to treat out-of-state requesters the same as in-state requesters...





While this is certainly interesting, I am not being denied the ability to request records solely on my out-of-state requester status. Specifically, I am being denied the ability to make requests because I am not fulfilling requirements that don't appear in the Virginia Freedom of Information Act and that I have no obligation to fulfill regardless of the city of Charlottesville's erroneous belief that I do. It really makes you wonder about motivation for this move. Was it something I said?





FOIA Request submitted the same day I received a denial of future ability to submit FOIA requests.





It's not yet clear what the motivation was for making this burdensome request of me. FOIA experts in the state of Virginia tell me that they've never heard of anything like this before. I've reached out to the Public Information Officer's for the city of Charlottesville for comment and will update this post with any new information. 











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