Laws Only Apply To Private Citizens

My second attempt at making a verbal FOIA request at City Hall in Columbia,SC. I quoted the wrong section of the law in the video since I did not have my legal pad with the law on it with me. It is section 30-4-30 of the SC FOIA law. It did not matter, even if I had said the right section they would not have let me make my request, as I said this was my second attempt.
Here is the law: SECTION 30-4-30. Right to inspect or copy public records; fees; notification as to public availability of records; presumption upon failure to give notice; records to be available when requestor appears in person.

(a) Any person has a right to inspect or copy any public record of a public body, except as otherwise provided by Section 30-4-40, in accordance with reasonable rules concerning time and place of access.

(d) The following records of a public body must be made available for public inspection and copying during the hours of operations of the public body without the requestor being required to make a written request to inspect or copy the records when the requestor appears in person:

(1) minutes of the meetings of the public body for the preceding six months;

(2) all reports identified in Section 30-4-50(A)(8) for at least the fourteen-day period before the current day; and

(3) documents identifying persons confined in any jail, detention center, or prison for the preceding three months.

HISTORY: 1978 Act No. 593, Section 4; 1987 Act No. 118, Section 4; 1990 Act No. 555, Section 1; 1998 Act No. 423, Section 1.

http://www.scstatehouse.gov/code/t30c004.php