HomeMy Public PortalAboutPRR 15-1844From: Chris O'Hare [ mailto: chrisoharegulfstream @gmail.comj
Sent: Thursday, May 21, 2015 2:50 PM
To: Bill Thrasher
Subject: Fwd: GS #681 (ADA compliance 2.19.14 c)
Dear Custodian of Records,
Yesterday, on May 20, 2015, I received your response to a public record request I made to you
on February 19, 2014. I object to your 15 month delay to produce documents responsive to my
request. You can't possibly consider 15 months to be an acceptable, reasonable or lawful length
of time to produce requested public records. I have forwarded to you herein your late
response for your reference.
I followed the link, as you instructed in your response. There I found a page with a record
identified as PRR 14 -0681 published on it (pdf copy attached). This record contains my original
request to you along with the records you deem responsive. On this page your site claims this
record was created on 8/7/2014 9:01:26 AM, about 170 days after I made the request.
Your site further claims this page was last modified on 5/202015 1.45,13 Pm. This last
modification, presumably was due to your adding the records responsive to my request.
I note that the records you produced in your response were all created between
February 4, 2014 to February 18, 2014; very recent to the day I requested the records. I
also note the responsive records consist of:
3 emails
• 2letters
• 1 check
Why did your response to my request, made so long ago, take 15 months to produce?
Why haven't you provided all responsive records that may have existed at the time of
my request?
Why are you now finally responding to my request after having previously written to me
on February 19, 2014 that "...the Town requires an advance deposit of $792.54 as explained
in the Towns correspondence to you dated January 23, 2013 " and "The Town will not process
this new public records request, or any f lure public records requests filed by you, until the
aforementioned costs have been paid or otherwise resolved. "
I ask, as a courtesy to you, to give you an opportunity to explain to me the lawful
reasons for your actions for what otherwise appears to me to be apparent violations of
Florida Statute Chapter 119.
Sincerely,
Chris O'Hare
TOWN OF GULF STREAM
PALM BEACH COUNTY, FLORIDA
Delivered via e-mail
May 21, 2015
Chris O'Hare [mail to: chrisoharegulfstream @gmail.com]
Re: GS #1844 (Fwd: GS #681 (ADA compliance 2.19.14 c))
Why did your response to my request, made so long ago, take 15 months to produce? Why
haven't you provided all responsive records that may have existed at the time of my request?
Why are you now finally responding to my request after having previously written to me on
February 19, 2014 that "...the Town requires an advance deposit of $792.54 as explained in the
Town's correspondence to you dated January 23, 2013 " and "The Town will not process this
new public records request, or any future public records requests filed by you, until the
aforementioned costs have been paid or otherwise resolved. " 1 ask, as a courtesy to you, to give
you an opportunity to explain to me the lawful reasons for your actions for what otherwise
appears to me to be apparent violations of Florida Statute Chapter 119.
Dear Chris O'Hare [mail to: chrisoharegulfstream (i�gmail.coml,
The Town of Gulf Stream has received your public records requests dated May 21, 2015. If your
request was received in writing, then the requests can be found at the following links
h"://www2.gulf-stream.org/weblink/O/doc/5095I/Pagel.ast)x. Please refer to the referenced
number above with any future correspondence.
Please be advised that no such records exist and that pursuant to the public records laws, the duty
of the Town of Gulf Stream is to provide access to or copies of public records at a reasonable
time in reasonable conditions. The Town of Gulf Stream is not required to give out information
from these records nor give information about these records.
We consider this matter closed.
Sincerely,
Town Clerk, Custodian of the Records