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    "meta": {
        "source": "Georgia Prisoners' Speak, open-records requests and the documents agencies released",
        "note": "Records requested under the Georgia Open Records Act (O.C.G.A. § 50-18-70 et seq.), by Georgia Prisoners' Speak or, where a page says so, by another person or group who shared them with GPS. Documents marked \"as released\" are posted exactly as the agency released them. Files marked \"prepared by GPS\" are GPS's own compilations of those documents, made for convenience; where they differ, the released document governs. A request is published here when GPS cites it or when its records are useful to readers; records about individual deaths are published on GPS's mortality pages, not here.",
        "generated_at": "2026-10-30T05:53:27+00:00",
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    "data": {
        "ref": "GSFIC-20260916",
        "url": "https://gps.press/records/gsfic-20260916/",
        "title": "Dooly and Telfair State Prisons as-built plans: GSFIC's project and storage indexes (request withdrawn)",
        "agency": "Georgia State Financing and Investment Commission",
        "agency_short": "GSFIC",
        "channel": "Email to GSFIC's open-records address (openrecords@gsfic.ga.gov)",
        "requested_by": "Georgia Prisoners' Speak",
        "shared_with_gps": false,
        "summary": "GPS asked GSFIC for an index of the as-built plans it holds for Department of Corrections prisons, and for the as-built plans of Dooly and Telfair State Prisons. GSFIC said it has no index of as-built plan sets, released an index of GSFIC projects, and withheld the plans under O.C.G.A. § 50-18-72(a)(25)(A)(iv), which covers plans that could compromise security if made public. When GPS narrowed the request to records stating each prison's bed or cell count, GSFIC found a Dooly State Prison project it completed in 2005, sent the State Records Center index of its stored boxes and the Center's fee schedule, and estimated the search would cost over $500. GPS withdrew the request on September 23, 2026.",
        "request_text": "To the Open Records Officer:\n\nThis is a request under the Georgia Open Records Act, O.C.G.A. § 50-18-70 et seq.\n\nWe're documenting the capacity each Georgia state prison was built to hold, taking the figure from the State's own construction records rather than from operating reports. The Office of Commissioner of Insurance and Safety Fire has produced the certificates of occupancy for two facilities and told us it no longer holds the construction plan review files. Its schedule keeps those only for eleven years after a project is completed, so we accept that answer. The as-built plans are a different series. Under the State Government Records Retention Schedule for Property and Security, item GASC-07-001, as-built plans and specifications are retained permanently.\n\nWe're asking GSFIC on the understanding that the Commission managed the construction of these facilities.\n\nWe request the following:\n\n1. A list or index of the as-built plan sets and specifications GSFIC holds for Georgia Department of Corrections facilities, giving the project number and facility name for each. If the holdings are organized as capital projects, a project listing would serve just as well.\n\n2. For Dooly State Prison in Unadilla and Telfair State Prison in Helena, the as-built plans and specifications for the original construction, and in particular the housing unit floor plans together with any cell schedule, bed schedule or room schedule contained in them.\n\n3. Any later as-built set covering added or converted inmate housing at either facility.\n\n4. If GSFIC does not hold these records, the name of the agency that does, and any disposition or transfer record showing where they went. Naming the Georgia Building Authority or the Department of Corrections would be enough for us to go on.\n\nItem 1 should be inexpensive, and it will let us ask for the rest precisely instead of in bulk. Please tell us the estimated cost before retrieving anything under items 2 and 3, and we'll confirm before you begin. We're glad to take electronic copies in any format, and we can collect large drawing files whichever way is easiest for your office.\n\nIf any part of this request is unclear, or would be easier to answer in a different form, please tell us and we'll adjust it.\n\nThank you for your help with this.\nThe GDC Accountability Project, Inc. (Georgia Prisoners' Speak)\n285 W Wieuca Rd NE, PMB #4153, Atlanta, GA 30342\naccountability@gps.press · https://gps.press",
        "date_filed": "2026-09-16",
        "date_last_response": "2026-09-22",
        "status": "withdrawn",
        "status_label": "Withdrawn",
        "status_note": "GPS withdrew the request on September 23, 2026, declining GSFIC's estimate of over $500 to search off-site storage for the 2005 Dooly project records. The as-built plans were withheld under O.C.G.A. § 50-18-72(a)(25)(A)(iv).",
        "fee_amount": 0,
        "fee_note": "No fee charged. GSFIC estimated over $500 to retrieve and review off-site boxes; GPS declined and withdrew the request.",
        "timeline": [
            {
                "date": "2026-09-16",
                "event": "Request filed by email to GSFIC."
            },
            {
                "date": "2026-09-17",
                "event": "GSFIC said it has no index of as-built plan sets and released an index of GSFIC projects, which leaves out projects older than its eBonds system. It withheld the as-built plans under O.C.G.A. § 50-18-72(a)(25)(A)(iv), said older project records are stored at the State Records Center and State Archives, and said it had asked for their indexes."
            },
            {
                "date": "2026-09-22",
                "event": "GPS replaced items 2 and 3 with a narrower request: any GSFIC record stating the number of beds or cells built at Dooly and Telfair State Prisons."
            },
            {
                "date": "2026-09-22",
                "event": "GSFIC found a Dooly State Prison project it completed in 2005, with its records in off-site storage. It sent the storage index, a list of GSFIC projects and the State Records Center fee schedule, and estimated the search would cost over $500."
            },
            {
                "date": "2026-09-23",
                "event": "GPS declined the estimate and asked GSFIC to close the request."
            }
        ],
        "topics": [
            "prison-capacity",
            "dooly-state-prison",
            "telfair-state-prison",
            "gsfic",
            "construction-records"
        ],
        "cited_in": [],
        "published_at": "2026-10-28 20:21:34",
        "updated_at": "2026-10-28 20:21:34",
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                "title": "Index of GSFIC projects, with funding and payments",
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                "kind_label": "As released by the agency",
                "description": "GSFIC project list (6,817 rows) giving agency, project number and title, county, status, bond series, legislative authorization, budget and payments; released September 17, 2026. It lists GDC79, \"Dooly Prison-Dorm Addition\", a closed project funded from the 2005A bond issue.",
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                "date_received": "2026-09-17"
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                "title": "GSFIC projects list with records-disposition worksheets",
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                "description": "GSFIC workbook listing projects by number with status, bond issue and the year their records may be destroyed, with worksheets of box contents named for dates from November 2020 to April 2021; released September 22, 2026.",
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            {
                "title": "State Records Center index of GSFIC's stored boxes",
                "kind": "released",
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                "description": "1,704 entries for boxes of GSFIC records held at the State Records Center, by title, box and consignment number, retention schedule and destruction date; released September 22, 2026.",
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            {
                "title": "State Records Center fee schedule, fiscal year 2027",
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                "kind_label": "As released by the agency",
                "description": "One page of storage, retrieval, copying and delivery charges (for example $2.00 to retrieve a file and $0.34 a page to copy or scan); released September 22, 2026.",
                "url": "https://gps.press/wp-content/uploads/public-records/gsfic-20260916/RecordsCenterFeeScheduleFY2027-002.pdf",
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