Why is the City of Rochester killing trees, polluting air for no good reason?

Recently the Rochester Voice made a Right to Know request for school records regarding last year's absentee rates among Rochester School District schools.
As many Rochester Voice readers probably know by now, the City of Rochester has refused to send digital Right to Know requests to me because I live in Maine.
The City of Rochester believes only New Hampshire citizens are approved to be sent digital Right to Know request documents.
So instead of just sending them digitally as they are stored, the City of Rochester spends the extra time and expense to copy the documents onto paper and provide them to The Voice at the city clerk's office in the James W. Foley Memorial Community Center.
Earlier this month the city's Records Department - which now handles all Right to Know requests - notified me BY EMAIL, mind you, that my requested documents were available for pickup any weekday between 8 a.m. and 5 p.m.
So I drove down to the Community Center, wasting time and gasoline, to get the documents they refused to email to me.
They don't mind killing our trees that help us breathe and polluting our air that poisons our lungs as long as they can wield their supreme power over a little digital daily that only seeks to cover their fair city that's not fair to the media.
When I arrived at the clerk's office one of the clerks (who was very nice, I must say!) told me I could take a picture of the document or pay 50 cents for the single page that showed the absentee rates.
I then asked the clerk if she could email me the digital document, so the graphic would be clearer for my readers than if I tried to take a picture of it.
I reasoned with her that I wasn't in Maine but was right across the desk from her.
Well, she said, let me go call someone and see if I can do that for you.
A couple of minutes later she returned to the window and said slightly uncomfortably, "I'm sorry. You live in Maine, so they say I can't do it."
You can't make this stuff up!