I think my head hurts after reading this one. Deputy Secretary of State Tom Deadrick is insisting to the news media that an e-mail is not a written request, as he stonewalls, delays, and has to eventually relent because they lack staff to supervise people reviewing records.
“We are requiring that all requests for public records be in writing,” Deadrick replied on Jan. 10. “Emails will not be accepted. This is for tracking purposes on our end in order that we can best comply with the relevant statutes.”
and..
When it became clear that wasn’t going to work, I shifted strategies and asked how, precisely, I was supposed to comply with the “in writing” policy. Was I supposed to print out my email and mail it in? And if so, why wouldn’t the office just print the email I’d already sent? Or would I be required to hand-write a note and mail that in?
Deadrick told me a typed letter on official letterhead, sent through the mail, would suffice. I complied.
and..
He responded with an email saying that since I was willing to make the drive, and since the office was busy with the legislative session and therefore wouldn’t have adequate staff to “monitor” me, he was “willing to make a one-time exception” to the fee. He attached digital copies of the pardon records to the email.
You need to read this. This kind of bureaucracy is dystopian and dysfunctional in the face of what is supposed to be open government.
Explain that Tom Deadrick is too old to work in state governments without saying he’s too old.
Will he accept transmissions by telegraph and pony express?
Pigeon. Jeff Monroe will bring them to pierre.
Jeff Monroe is still mourning Buba’s passing. May not be up to it.
Johnson has probably learned what Noem and Trump have: only insiders and leftists read these small media reports. Noem has more readers on her Facebook than these guys will ever dream of having. None of Noem’s followers trust the media.
In an effort for transparency who is funding Search Light? Where is the dollar that is routed to them coming from? George Soros, Mark Zukerberg? They should disclose where the dollars are originating from.
I don’t understand why Deadrick feels the need to jerk them around though.
Didn’t take much looking – https://statesnewsroom.com/support/
Brutal and glorious miscalculation.
Websites are trustworthy.
Social media is a ghetto.
But Noem is a governor of for the people.
🙂
You can’t be serious. This is the Noem era, when has ANY thing been transparent?
Denying that an email is a written request is part if what she does.
“Drain the swamp!”
-noted Alligator
Ain’t it the truth Anonymous! Monae was supposed to drain the swamp, but instead, she created her own.
Hand counted ballots.
Paper ballots
Everything must be paper.
They should with the office of hearing examiners. I have a sneaking suspicion this SOS argument wouldn’t get very far.
An official written request is any document accepted by the State Government, its departments, offices, agencies. The law allows for the Government to establish the forms, or proper means of providing a statement of oath, acknowledgement, public record request, submission of facts, etc. The Secretary of State can by laws already adopted, promulgate rules of engagement of how to submit a records request. It can and will be done by a form accepted by the office, no different than the D.P.P.A form used by the Division of Motor Vehicles when someone, or an entity requests private information related to motor vehicle titles, licensing, property ownership.
There is no assurance that what you sent digitally is what will arrive.
It was made that way as a sales strategy for NFT.
Non-fungible grudztokens (NFgT) are backed with a hand-written guarantee.
Anything good to come from computers means re-waging the clipper-chip war.
So are you supposed to send everything by certified mail? Because stuff gets lost in the mail all the time. Without spending the money to send it certified, there’s no assurance that what you sent through the mail is what will arrive.
It was made that way as a deflection mechanism by the American Postal Workers Union.
The GQP never ceases to amaze me with their stupidity.
Since the Snowden Disclosures, the fight over the Clipper Chip, and the Assange publications, we now know that computers are all compromised by globalist entities who funded them in the first place. All of them. Every. Single. One.
Our SOS office has its collective head in the game, here.
Root cause is tech broken by design.
Good on Johnson and company.
The real reason why emails aren’t accepted is because I keep forgetting my passwords.
So if you file a paper copy of literally anything at the S.O.S., you have to pay an additional $15.00 to $50.00, but if you file the document electronically, you don’t have to pay the extra processing fee……..what?!