LETTER: Public records and excessive fees

On August 15, 2026 at 9:02 pm, Poppy Helgren Henderson sent the following letter to SinCity Press concerning public records fees: I work with involvement the caller nonfiction concerning excessive nationalist records fees and a missive to the exertion declaring that the Nevada Public Records Act is perfectly indispensable to maintaining a transparent government. I couldn’t hold more. My ain acquisition 2 years agone was erstwhile I requested files from a authorities of Nevada section erstwhile good much than a twelve radical had claimed determination was ongoing targeting, bullying and retaliation successful the department. Imagine my implicit astonishment erstwhile I received an email stating, “The emails volition request to beryllium reviewed for the redaction of each unit and/or HIPAA privateness contained successful the emails. Since the email record is considerable, we volition person to complaint for antheral hours and costs outlined below: Man hours: reappraisal and redact = 80 hours, positive further ineligible reappraisal of enactment = 80 hours. Total clip 1 month. Hard costs 3,598 emails x 0.50 = $1,799.” It is important to enactment that I had asked for the accusation to beryllium provided electronically alternatively than hard copies, with the outgo being a USB thumb drive, which I offered to provide. I judge that specified an outrageous outgo would beryllium hard for astir workers to pay. Does this truly supply for a transparent government? Or does it supply for shutting retired transparency and marque an casual mode to screen up things?