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I’m back. Thank y’all for your patience.
After asking for access to ALL of the strata’s records, last week I received access to an online portal. A vault that is said to contain all I am after. After discovering the vault would not allow me to view or download more than one invoice, I complained to the agent and several days later I was told the problem I pointed to was fixed.
I take the agent at his word.
Here is my problem: if I were to access ALL the strata’s records in the agent’s office, I would surely be able to choose to sift through say, just invoices or just minutes or just emails etc if I chose to. But the way this portal is organised it is a mere storage locker for scanned documents, allegedly in date order (I have not verified that) but even so, it does not allow me to say, review say just all the emails in a timely manner. There are no folders etc.
I feel like Jim Hacker on Yes Minister asking his permanent secretary for certain documents. In reply Mr Hacker receives cartons of papers that are not organised, collated or sorted in any meaningful manner, requiring abundant energy and hours to unearth what he is after. (The bureaucrats know they cannot withhold documents from him, so they bury the ones he is after so deep it is hard to unearth).
My question: Can I insist on physical access to the original documents, such as the minute book; payments (or invoice) books etc? I ask because over the last two days I have sighted 60 or so invoices with another 500 to go. And that is before I study them and thereafter turn my attention to other documents I am after.
Any thoughts? Much appreciated.