A Maine resident, who asked to remain anonymous, finally received a response to a Feb. 2024 request for public records submitted to Maine’s Secretary of State.
The response, which came more than eight months after the request was submitted, included a “good faith” time and cost estimate of $15,075 in order to comply with the request.
The Secretary of State’s office requested a 50 percent down payment of $7,537.50 in order to begin preparing the public records.
Under Maine law, such time and cost estimates are “non-binding.”
So nothing would prevent the Secretary of State’s office, upon receiving the $7,537.50, from later revising their cost estimate for the work of collecting and redacting records upward.
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