Ionia County officials say information contained in a GIS dataset requested through the Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) is already available to the public online at no cost, but the county charges $1,000 to provide the underlying data as a digital export. The county Board of Commissioners voted unanimously Sept. 22 to deny a FOIA appeal from resident Justin Meyers, who requested copies of “native digital GIS datasets (parcel layer with attribu…
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