UPDATED: Prince William County schools charge $40k for FOIA

Published July 2, 2012 4:00am ET



A right-leaning grassroots citizens advocacy group that asked Prince William County education officials for information on the public school system’s check records, employee expense reports and other mundane cost data will have to cough up $40,000.

That’s how much William Reid III, of the Prince William County Public Schools’ (PWCPS) office of equity and compliance told the Virginia Americans for Prosperity it would cost to produce the documents the group requested in a Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) letter.

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