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Editor’s Note 05/09/23: The submission above has been marked as “Completed”. As written, it is unclear what specific public records the sender would like to receive.
Because the request covers a one year time span, and, there is no specific subject matter or keywords indicated — we find that the request may overly broad. In our experience, it’s very likely that we will be asked to further narrow or clarify the scope of the request, if it were submitted to the government as written.
When requesting emails, texts, or other “communications” type records, it is important to indicate if there is a specific subject matter and/or keywords (if that is applicable, and if you’re looking for something specific). If you really mean to request “ALL communications” between Mr. Lambeth and the individuals named, however, and your request is not subject/keyword specific, then please indicate this as well. Providing those details will help clarify or narrow the scope of the request, as well reduce the volume of records and staff time it takes to produce them.
We’d ask that the sender please revise and submit a new request to our website, clearly indicating a specific date range / message / subject, and any other specific details about the exact public records that you’d like to receive and to whom the request should be sent.
Sunshine Request will not fulfill the following types of requests:
☀️ Requests that are incomplete, non-specific, or vague.
While we do proofread requests we receive for general spelling and clarity, we may choose not to fulfill the request if it is incomplete, or it is unclear what specific information the requester hopes to receive. In this case, the sender may rewrite and resubmit the request.
It’s the requester’s responsibility to write the request in a manner that clearly specifies a record that is being requested, and to what government entity it should be sent.
☀️ Requests that are only informational questions, and requests that are not addressed to government entities.
Sunshine Request is a site built to make requests for public records to the government — Public records are recorded information such as documents, government emails, and data sets.
In the interest of preserving our team’s time to focus on the high volume of requests on our site, as well to respect the staff time of government entities fulfilling records requests, Sunshine Request will no longer fulfill “requests” that are just informational type questions for government entities to answer.
We also will not fulfill requests made to non-government entities.
It’s the requester’s responsibility to write the request in a manner that clearly specifies a record that is being requested, and to what government entity it should be sent.
☀️ Please be specific:
It is important that what you are requesting is specific and reasonable, and is an actionable records request. Please specify the exact type of records you’d like to receive, rather than any “possible” or “potential” info that could be searched. Remember that the larger your request, the more time it usually takes to fulfill. Specificity will often help reduce the amount of time needed to process the request.
It is important that a request has a clearly written and complete Subject and Message, and also specifies the Government Entity (or entities), City and/or County, and State to which the request should be sent. If applicable, please also include any responsive timelines for the info that should be requested.
While we do proofread requests we receive for general spelling and clarity, we may choose not to fulfill the request if it is incomplete, or it is unclear what specific info the requester hopes to receive, or if it violates our policies.
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