Michigan State University is a public land-grant research university in East Lansing, Michigan. | Wikimedia Commons
Michigan State University is a public land-grant research university in East Lansing, Michigan. | Wikimedia Commons
The Mackinac Center's Legal Foundation has announced that it has filed a lawsuit against Michigan State University (MSU) for violating the state’s Freedom of Information Act (FOIA), according to The Mackinac Center for Public Policy.
The documents requested link to an employee who was controversially fired from a job at the university. MSU originally declared that retrieving the documents would take six hours of staff time. However, the university still hasn't produced the records almost six months after the initial request was made.
On June 26, the Mackinac Center presented a FOIA petition asking for all email communication from MSU's president, Samuel Stanley, that are related to Dr. Stephen Hsu.
“The public deserves to have expedient access to public records,” Steve Delie, the Center’s policy lead on transparency and open government, told the Mackinac Center. “We have waited five months for a request that should have taken less than 20 hours to produce. When government entities keep making these kinds of delays, they’re not working diligently to respond to the public’s requests.”
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