>>> But it sounds like this case is different - the companies in question didn't submit FOIA requests, the DMV sold them for profit.

The way I interpreted it (and from prior experience with FOIA requests), a government agency can charge you a fee for processing a FOIA request. So the $77MM that the FL DMV made from "sales" of personal information, I interpret as FOIA fees collected for processing FOIA requests.

I could be wrong, that just how I interpreted the article.