This goes under the "you've got to be kidding me" file:

There's a student at Cal Poly San Luis Obispo who works for the student newspaper.  He was doing an article on the university system and how it is inappropriate and possibly illegal for professors to inform students how politics, specifically Prop 30, might influence the Cal State system.  The writer needed a copy of an email written by the Cal State Chancellor to University Presidents on the issue.

The request was initially denied, but he applied under the California Public Records Act and they had no choice but to approve his request.  Then they said he would have to pay twenty cents to have a copy of the email sent to him.  And, they wouldn't accept payment over the phone by credit card, or by having someone bring the cash to the required office in Long Beach.  He was welcome to come to Long Beach and review the email or pay the twenty cents by check and get the email sent to him (via email).  But they wouldn't send it to him until payment had been received.

Fortunately, he found a source that gave him a copy, before his deadline and the story ran.  But the idea that this kind of thing goes on within the educational system is horrific.