Keep in mind one of the categories on this list is "Needs to be Assigned to a Permanent Fee Coordinator". In other words, they're free to file FOIA requests, they're just filing enough of them (and consuming enough resources in the process) that they've got an account with the office to handle those fees. I strongly suspect this is the category Gawker has fallen into.
Yeah that was my thought as well. In government you need to be accountable at all times for the time and money you spend on any effort. They track anything and everything if they think it may help cover their asses when someone asks "why did you spend all 40 hours last week on FOIA requests"? Or "why aren't these people, who have made request after request, being charged for that time"?
That's my hope at least. That it's not some list of ne'er-do-wells.
