<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html charset=us-ascii"></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; ">I would be interested in learning more about discussions within municipal leadership about previous attempts to introduce Open WiFi to Oakland.<br><div><div>On Jan 21, 2013, at 12:06 PM, mark burdett <<a href="mailto:mark@510pen.org">mark@510pen.org</a>> wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><blockquote type="cite"><div dir="ltr">Hi, if anyone is interested in making a Freedom of Information request to a local/state/federal government agency, I have some surplus credits on <a href="https://www.muckrock.com/">https://www.muckrock.com/</a> - a website which makes it pretty easy to send and track FOI requests online. Just email me off-list and I can submit a request for you.<div>
<br></div><div style="">Maybe could be useful for Oakland Wiki or other projects folks are working on?</div><div style=""><br></div><div style="">Note, sometimes agencies refuse to send documents and you have to file a lawsuit (but hey, you might win a million dollars 10 years later), or they want to charge exorbitant fees for documents - e.g. <a href="https://muckrock.s3.amazonaws.com/foia_files/Ltr_-_1-17-13.pdf">https://muckrock.s3.amazonaws.com/foia_files/Ltr_-_1-17-13.pdf</a> - but sometimes you can get what you're looking for free of charge..</div>
<div style=""><br></div><div style="">--mark B.</div></div>
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