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Prof. slams proposed WVU info policy
MORGANTOWN, W.Va. (AP) — A West Virginia University journalism professor says the school’s proposal for a new policy on Freedom of Information requests would violate state law.
Bonnie Stewart made her objections during a public comment period that ended this month.
She says the proposal is contrary to the spirit and letter of West Virginia’s Freedom of Information Act.
Among other aspects, the new policy would require a fee of $1 per page for copies of documents of 11 or more pages. The current fee is half that.
It would also charge $10 fees for every 10 megabytes of data sent by e-mail and for CD-ROMs.
WVU spokeswoman Becky Lofstead says the school’s legal staff took all the comments into account.
