ALPR Usage (University of South Carolina, Division of Law Enforcement)

This is in response to the Freedom of Information Act request that you recently directed to the University of SC. The University has determined that it possesses documents that are responsive to your request. However, the University anticipates that some of the responsive documents, or portions of them, may be exempt from disclosure under the Act. 

The Freedom of Information Act authorizes the University to collect fees not to exceed the actual cost of searching for, retrieving, redacting, and making copies of the records you have requested. The Act also authorizes the University to require you to post a deposit of 25% of the estimated costs before searching for or making copies of the records. 

The University estimates that the total cost it will incur to respond to your request will be $150. Therefore, you must post a deposit of $37.50 before it gathers the records you requested. If you would like to proceed with your request in its current form, then please forward a check payable to “University of South Carolina” to me at your earliest convenience. The University will make the non-exempt documents that are responsive to your request available to you for inspection and copying as soon as reasonably possible after it receives your deposit.

Your deposit check should be forwarded to the following address:

                FOIA
                Office of Communications and Public Affairs
                University of South Carolina
                Osborne Administration Building, Suite 107
                Columbia, SC 29208
 
 
We will acknowledge receipt of your check via email.

Please be advised that obtaining or using public records for commercial solicitation directed to any person in this State is prohibited. A person who knowingly violates this prohibition is guilty of a misdemeanor and, upon conviction, must be fined an amount not to exceed five hundred dollars or imprisoned for a term not to exceed one year, or both. S.C. Code Ann. §30-2-50.

Please contact me if you have any questions in connection with the foregoing. 

Shannon Beaudry
FOIA Coordinator
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803-576-7715
beaudrys@mailbox.sc.edu
Communications and Public Affairs
University of South Carolina

Good morning,

This is in reference to the FOIA request you originally made on 1/20/2022.

On 2/3/2022, we responded via email that documents referenced in your request are available, and that the University estimates that the total cost to respond to your request will be $150. You must post a deposit of at least $37.50 to begin document recovery.

It has now been more than 30 days since you were notified of this cost, and to date we have not received payment. Please pay the deposit within 10 business days of the date of this communication to proceed with this request. Otherwise, this request will be closed with no further action.

Please let me know if you have any questions.