A clerk at the court cannot be prosecuted for theft in office for making the information available upon request. A nonprofit organization of property owners had a right to obtain certain rental property records stored on computer diskettes. Supplying the information on paper was insufficient when the requester specifically asked for the information on disk. The basic tenet of Margolius is that a person does not come like a serf hat in hand, seeking permission of the lord to have access to public records. State ex rel.
Computer tapes containing a city s year-end employee master payroll files are public records.
The city improperly redacted employee social security numbers, which the court said are public records. State ex rel. Such fees are to be limited to actual costs to the bureau, special extraction costs, plus an additional ten percent. The bureau may also charge fees for redacting information. Reporting or newsgathering is not considered a commercial purpose.