Copy and Request Fees
Under FOIA section 6, SIUE may charge fees as described below.
Paper Copies
Black and white, letter- and legal-sized copies are free up to 50 pages. Each additional page will cost 15 cents per page. For color copies or unusually sized copies, charges are the actual cost of copying.
Electronic Format
If a voluminous request is for electronic records and those records are kept in a portable document format, a requestor may be charged $20 for up to 80 megabytes of data, $40 for data in excess of 80 megabytes but less than 160 megabytes, and $100 for data in excess of 160 megabytes. For voluminous requests requesting electronic records that are not kept in a portable document format, the University may charge $20 for not more than 2 megabytes of data, $40 for more than 2 megabytes but not more than 4 megabytes, and $100 for more than 4 megabytes of data.
Commercial Request
Commercial purpose requests may be charged $10 for each hour searching and retrieving a record, and for time spent on redaction; provided, however, that no fees may be charged for the first eight hours.
