Says who?
Anonymous Person #2, "TsunamiGeno," doesn't say anything about not being allowed to make copies. Moreover, the Post & Email's "researcher" obviously managed to come back with a copy of the index data, and even explicitly said there's an area where you go to make digital copies.
TsunamiGeno said (found at http://myveryownpointofview.wordpress.com/2010/07/27/ya-cant-always-get-what-ya-want/ ):
“When finished with the index, I asked Jesse if I could get any supporting documentation including copies or a certified copy on the name I did find. He said, “No, is not available to the general public.”
At P&E, the researcher’s language wasn’t real clear, but she said, “I took the indexes to the counter where you fill out record request forms to examine them and make digital images.”
That makes it sound like you request the records so you can examine and make digital images of them, but when you read the entire context it is clear that there was a counter that she went to so she could make digital images.
Later she said, “I didn’t ask for a copy of an index page, since I had made my own images”
I could check again, but I’m almost positive that the digital images that she went to the counter to make were digital photos with her camera. Look at the image. You can see the counter that the document was sitting on. That was a photograph.
She also mentioned that she was prepared to read them the riot act if she had asked for a copy and they had refused, but she didn’t ask for a copy. TsunamiGeno did, and was told no.
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