NM Health Department Just Wasted $5.54 of Your Money

By Maassive on July 10th, 2009

I file a lot of public information requests. That’s the job. We use New Mexico’s Inspection of Public Records Act to watchdog the government and report back to you what we find.

Today, I’m sharing information about the Department of Health. However,  it isn’t about the information I formally requested. Instead, I want to tell you about the front of the envelope containing the DOH’s letter responding to my request.

The letter was the very same letter they’d already sent me in PDF format via e-mail. The state paid $5.54 to send it to me again via certified mail. This isn’t the first time DOH has paid a small fortune to send me a redundant letter.

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