GRAND RAPIDS, MI – The Michigan Supreme Court is being asked to weigh in on a lawsuit against the city of Grand Rapids over its response time to a public records request. The ACLU is arguing that by taking so long to provide the public records, the city essentially denied the FOIA request and violated Michigan law. RELATED: ACLU loses appeal against Grand Rapids over FOIA response timesThe issue stemmed from a FOIA request the ACLU submitted to the Grand Rapids Police Department in December 2021 over its use of drones. Michigan’s FOIA law does not give public bodies a specific time limit within which they must fulfill a FOIA request. It states, “A public body shall furnish a requesting person a reasonable opportunity for inspection and examination of its public records, and shall furnish reasonable facilities for making memoranda or abstracts from its public records during the usual business hours.”