FEMA is requiring The Advocate to pay $209,990 for documents the newspaper requested for a story about the agency’s post-hurricane contracts.
Officials with the Federal Emergency Management Agency said they will not provide the documents until the newspaper pays the fee.
To fulfill The Advocate’s freedom-of-information request, FEMA determined it would take more than 2 million documents and the agency says none of the documents are stored on computers. The Advocate has not been able to determine if the 2 million figure is justified.
