----- Original Message -----
From: joe harcz Comcast
To: Lt. Gov. Brian Calley
Cc: Mike Zimmer LARA DSA ; Ed Rodgers BSBP Dir. ; Carla Haynes ; Egan, Paul ;
Michael Steinberg ACLU
Sent: Wednesday, April 06, 2016 1:42 PM
Subject: more foia flint water crisis blind and prove contacts btbl
April 6 2016 FOIA Request Phone Logs on use of BTBBKL Flint Water Crisis
Paul Joseph Harcz, Jr.
1365 E. Mt. Morris Rd.
Mt. Morris, MI 48458
joeharcz@xxxxxxxxxxx
Re: Carla Miller Haynes FOIA Response today
To:
Michael Zimmer, LARA, DSA
Ed Rodgers, Michigan Bureau Services for Blind Persons
Lt. Governor, Brian Calley
(Via e-mail)
Sirs,
I point your attention to the following quote today from a ludicrous response
from Carla Miller Haynes FOIA BSBP:
““• BSBP, utilizing the Genesee County District Library patron list,
attempted to contact the 117 patrons who are classified as “blind”.
Incidentally,
all of those individuals who were reached (88) indicated they were aware of the
Flint Water Crisis. The remaining 29 Genesee County District Library patrons
had either moved or were deceased.””
Now I am formally requesting any documents including redacted phone call list
by BSBP personell related to the assertion that these clients were indeed
contacted and when they were contacted. It appears to me and from other FOIA
releases that this is simply an assertion and made only after I wrote and asked
why the BTBL wasn’t used.
Moreover, my original requests were for what services and detailed information
about how to get them (ie filters, water deliveries, etc.) were being done to
all blind folks in this county, not just being made aware of the Flint Water
crisis as the ludicrous response above denotes.
At best and based upon other FOIA a mere handful of blind persons in this
county have been contacted by BSBP and all they did with those contacts, again
was to refer people to call 211!
I’ve talked to people I know and not a one of them have been contacted by any
medium affirmatively in these regards.
Again this is a request for information related to support just who, what,
when, why, where and how people who are blind in this county were even
contacted including those clients of the BTBL!
I never once as implied asked for that database but rather I inquired several
times in March as to why BSBP did not use it!
Bottom line here is blind and otherwise disabled folks have been left in the
lurch by this agency and the disaster is happening now and has been so.
Yet, all I get is more spin and more ludicrous assertions.
Sincerely,
Paul Joseph Harcz, Jr.
Citizen who is Blind, of Genesee County
Cc: several
