Comment by gpm
2 months ago
I think that would run afoul of
> The one big limitation of Illinois FOIA (with FOIA laws everywhere, really) is that you can’t use them to compel public bodies to create new records.
Unless for some reason they already had a list of columns without table structure.
(Not that I claim to have a legal background)
I had that thought too, but my naive rebuttal would be that the column data already exists by default in any standard RDBMS as information_schema.columns. No new record creation required.
Yes, but that requires someone to execute a query on a database and package it as a report?
Yes but what if we come up with a directive that every FOIA request must be logged into a DB. Therefore every request is automatically invalid as it requires we create a record!
/s