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An Act To Implement the Recommendations of the Right To Know Advisory Committee Concerning Advance Payment of Costs for Public Records Requests
Be it enacted by the People of the State of Maine as follows:
Sec. 1.  1 MRSA §408-A, sub-§8, ¶F  is enacted to read:
 
F.  An agency or official may require payment of all costs before the public record is provided to the requester.
 
SUMMARY
This bill, which is a recommendation of the Right To Know Advisory Committee in response to the decision of the Superior Court in Flanders v. State, et al., BELSC-CV-15-12 (Me. Super. Ct., Waldo Cty., Aug. 12, 2016), is intended to clarify that under Maine's Freedom of Access Act, an agency or public official may require payment of all costs before providing a public record to a requester.