Maine
Maine Freedom of Access Act
1 M.R.S. § 400 et seq.
Public records law for Maine. Covers state agencies, counties, municipalities, school districts, and special districts.
The clock
5 business days
5 business days to acknowledge; reasonable time to produce (30 days typical).
Statutory: 5 business days to acknowledge; reasonable time to produce (30 days typical).. Actual medians vary widely by agency and request complexity; simple requests often 7-30 days, complex 60-300+.
Reading the statute itself
The text of this one is not reproduced here. The United States Code carries no copyright, so federal FOIA is printed on this site in full; the fifty state codes are published by fifty legislatures under their own claims of compilation copyright, so they are linked instead. Everything on this page — the deadline, the appeal path, the fee-waiver standard — is Aletheca’s summary of that text, and the official source is one click away.
If they refuse
- Appeal deadline
- Not specified
- Appeal route
- Appeal to superior court; can request AG or Public Access Ombudsman review.
- Litigation
- Not specified
Fees and expedition
Quirks worth knowing
Public Access Ombudsman mediates; relatively cooperative.