Sappenfield v. Department of Corrections

¶1 The Department of Corrections (Corrections) reserves the right to withhold agency records from inmates, except for the inmate’s own file and health records. Corrections has a published procedure for providing additional records to inmates. Records requested by inmates are copied and mailed to the inmate, subject to a copying charge of 20 cents per page plus postage, payable in advance. Brandt Sappenfield challenges this procedure. And he sued when Corrections offered to mail the records he asked for but refused to arrange for him to inspect them in person at no charge. The court dismissed…