Michigan State University is a public land-grant research university in East Lansing, Michigan. | stock photo
Michigan State University is a public land-grant research university in East Lansing, Michigan. | stock photo
The Mackinac Center's Legal Foundation has announced that it registered 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 are linked to a employee who was controversially discharged from his job at the university. MSU initially declared that recovering the required documents would take six hours of staff time. However, the university hasn't handed over the records for almost six months after the first request was made.
On June 26, the Mackinac Center presented an FOIA request asking for all email communication from MSU's president, Samuel Stanley, relating 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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