Email from the Police Department's Records Office, October 7, 2026, 8:11 am, on the documents request: "I won't be waiving the fees for this." and "I will send you a bill once the captain has completed this on his end."
c295769c388fdb02… | CTP-2026-10-06-A | 2026-10-07 | 1 | none (message text as received, rendered to PDF; the signature block, the caution banner and our quoted request are left out; our note at the top) |
Email from the Police Department's Records Office, October 7, 2026, 1:17 pm, on the documents request: "Please see attached Good Faith Estimate regarding your first FOIA request."; "We need at least 50% up front in order to process."; "This is a very time-consuming process and so far costing about two days of time (billed at the lowest-paid hourly employee's wage)."; "We accept cash or check only."
dae6570920e638e0… | CTP-2026-10-06-A | 2026-10-07 | 1 | none (message text as received, rendered to PDF; the signature block and the quoted messages are left out; our note at the top) |
Fee notice on the documents request, dated October 7, 2026, from the Police Department's Records Clerk, with the Department's estimated cost sheet: the request "is granted to existing non-exempt records in the possession of the Charter Township of Clinton Police Department that fall within the scope of your request"; the Records Office "estimates a processing fee of $232.00"; "You may pay the deposit of $232.00 by check or cash only"; the deposit to be received "within 45 business days after the statutorily-determined receipt of this notice, which is December 14, 2026"; the sheet: 64 quarter hours of labor at $7.00 ($448.00), a 32GB media storage device ($7.50) and mailing ($9.00), grand total $464.50, deposit $232 (3 pages)
d12fe83ee2cd0fc0… | CTP-2026-10-06-A | 2026-10-07 | 3 | the requester's street address and city line blacked out; his name retained; the pages are new images of the Department's scan; document properties cleared |
Email from the Police Department's Records Office, October 7, 2026, 1:27 pm, on the exports request: "See attached Good Faith Estimate."
5bc7b6a4a3ab2800… | CTP-2026-10-06-B | 2026-10-07 | 1 | none (message text as received, rendered to PDF; the signature block and the quoted messages are left out; our note at the top) |
Fee notice on the exports request, dated October 7, 2026, from the Police Department's Records Clerk, with two estimated cost sheets: the request "is granted to existing non-exempt records in the possession of the Charter Township of Clinton Police Department that fall within the scope of your request"; the Records Office "estimates a processing fee of $113.00"; "You may pay the deposit of $113.00 by check or cash only"; the deposit to be received by December 14, 2026; the first sheet: 24 quarter hours of labor at $7.00 ($168.00), a 32GB media storage device ($7.50) and mailing ($9.00), grand total $184.50, deposit $92; the second sheet: 30 quarter hours ($210.00), the same device and mailing, grand total $226.50, deposit $113 (4 pages)
d4b2541e35fe2405… | CTP-2026-10-06-B | 2026-10-07 | 4 | the requester's street address and city line blacked out; his name retained; the pages are new images of the Department's scan; document properties cleared |
Email from the Police Department's Records Office, October 7, 2026, 2:07 pm, on the documents thread, answering our message of 2:00 pm on both estimates: "I can't break it down because the information is in a cluster of other information that goes with it."; the charge is by the quarter hour; the Captain puts the work at two days, 16 hours, 64 quarter hours; on the exports estimate, "the one for $92 is correct" and "You can ignore the one for $113."; "I cannot deliver by e-mail." and "My e-mail isn't large enough so it gets delivered by mail or you can come down and pick it up."
06e064bdf5f1b6a2… | CTP-2026-10-06-A | 2026-10-07 | 1 | none (message text as received, rendered to PDF; the signature block and the quoted messages are left out; our note at the top) |
Email from the Police Department's Records Office, October 16, 2026, 11:10 am, copying the Township attorney: the deposit check arrived, and "because you have appealed your request to the Board of Trustees, I am holding off doing anything with it at this time until the board has made their decision"; the Township attorney is working on it and the Captain has responded to the appeal
49a06cdce8f3a92c… | CTP-2026-10-06-B | 2026-10-16 | 1 | the signer's, the Township attorney's and the Captain's names left out; message text as received, rendered to PDF; our note at the top; document properties cleared |
Email from the Police Department's Records Office, October 16, 2026, 11:46 am, forwarding at our request the Captain's memo of October 13 on the fee appeal: the primary difficulty is "the process of generating, downloading, handling, and transferring the exported records"; the Department believes the circumstances "warrant consideration under MCL 15.234(3)" and recognizes that "the distinction between actual employee labor and periods of unattended computer processing must be considered when determining the final chargeable amount"; it "is prepared to review its estimates" and "recommends reviewing the itemized labor estimates to distinguish necessary employee activity from unattended processing time and to determine whether revised estimates are appropriate"
a80236a7694e6981… | CTP-2026-10-06-B | 2026-10-16 | 3 | the Records Clerk's, the Township attorney's and the Captain's names left out; the quoted copy of our appeal left out; message text as received, rendered to PDF; our note at the top; document properties cleared |
Email from the Police Department's Records Office, October 16, 2026, 12:41 pm: at this point the matter should be addressed to the Township attorney, the Records Office being "the middleman"; "I will provide the data you requested when given the go ahead"
9fe8cac43e1c18f6… | CTP-2026-10-06-B | 2026-10-16 | 1 | the Records Clerk's and the Township attorney's names left out; message text as received, rendered to PDF; our note at the top; document properties cleared |
Email from the Township attorney, October 19, 2026, 4:30 pm, on the thread of the fee appeal of October 9: the appeal "is going to be placed on the next agenda", scheduled for November 9 because November 2 is the night before the election; in the interim counsel has authority to discuss a resolution and asks what fee the requester thinks is reasonable considering the time required to respond
a8f63f8029830a9f… | CTP-2026-10-06-B | 2026-10-19 | 1 | the signer by role (the Township attorney, as in the published copies of October 16); the firm's address lines, phone and fax, the signature images, the privilege notice and the quoted thread left out; message text as received, rendered to PDF; our note at the top; document properties cleared |
Email from the Township attorney, October 19, 2026, 6:52 pm, answering our message of 6:18 pm on the thread of the fee appeal of October 9: she writes that she and the Supervisor "did not receive it on time to have it on tonight's meeting so it will be considered received at the next meeting", and "To the extent you disagree, I am asserting the Township's right to an extension"; time spent under the estimate would be taken off the bill or refunded, the Act requiring an estimate first; the Township has a public interest waiver for items under a set amount of time, which she believes is 15 minutes and will confirm; our offer "seems significantly lower" than she envisioned, "something more in the middle"; she proposes using the deposit to begin processing and itemizing actual time, payable before release, and asks whether that works
c7b1b938622c42d3… | CTP-2026-10-06-B | 2026-10-19 | 1 | the signer by role (the Township attorney, as in the published copy of her 4:30 pm email); the firm's address lines, phone and fax, the signature images, the privilege notice and the quoted thread left out; message text as received, rendered to PDF; our note at the top; document properties cleared |