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N.D. (NewsDakota.com) – The States Attorney has found that the City of Cooperstown did not violate open records law when it charged for the time it took to locate records.
Attorney General Wayne Stenejhem found the city didn’t violate the law by charging excessive fees for copies of requested records. The findings come after a May 12th incident when Ron Dahl requested a copy of “all the meeting minutes” of the Cooperstown renaissance Zone Committee along with “all the applications, both those approved and disapproved.”
The city auditor gathered meeting minutes and explained that since the creation of the committee, the meeting minutes had been filed by individual projects, causing her to search through 19 paper files on numerous projects. The auditor informed Dahl that he would be billed for the records and it was explained that the process to find the records was difficult.
Dahl requested an opinion from the State’s Attorney asking if the charges violated open records law. It was found that it does not.