Comment by neilv

Thanks. I might be misinterpreting, but maybe the standard for what's "research" involves not presuming that a given request can be satisfied by a database query?

So if you ask for documents in a way that sounds more complex than "every inspection report ever done on Mel's Diner", which is something they might be able to satisfy reasonably using a paper filing system or by eyeballing rows on a screen, then the request could be denied as "research"?

So then is what the petitioner in this case looking for was a database schema that would let them say, "respectfully, I think it's not research; I think it can be satisfied with the following exact SQL query"?