Comment by tptacek

I went up against my muni over their refusal to release their police General Orders (which seems real dumb in retrospect; we got the General Orders from most of Chicagoland with no protest†). I reached out to Matt Topic, who offered to sue for free, or send a nastygram for a billable hour.

I ended up doing the latter, because I gotta work in this town, but one consequence of fee recovery is that it's much easier to get representation for a FOIA suit.

† https://github.com/jjarmoc/chicago-area-general-orders/