> And maybe they want the public information but in an easy-to-manage format
Would there be any legal requirement to satisfy such a request? Why should a business expend resources to do something the police could do on their own?
Various freedom of information laws acknowledge the importance of information being provided to the requester in a machine readable format, when that information originates from such a system. I'm not arguing that this applies to police asking a private entity for information, just that the courts/regulators are not ignorant about the difference between machine-readable data and "oh just do a search and copy-paste it from the website".
