Anaheim Rekognition

To Whom It May Concern:

Pursuant to the California Public Records Act, I hereby request the following records:

On Thursday, December 21, 2017, the Communication Supervisor of the Anaheim Police Department sent an email to Washington County Sherriff’s Office titled “Anaheim”. Specifically the Communication Supervisor stated: "To give you some background, we have been talking to a company that does facial recognition as well as indexing videos for words, phrases, objects, OCR, and geolocations. Are initial plan was to start with the booking photos and test the product but the product itself hasn’t been well received. This is how I came across your article: https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/ai/using‐amazon‐rekognition‐to‐identify‐persons‐of‐interest‐for‐law‐enforcement/ ‐ I loved the simplicity of it while keeping the information under our span of control." Therefore under CPRA we are seeking:

• Documents sufficient to show discussion about Rekognition between Washington County Sheriff and your police department.
• Documents sufficient to show discussions between your police department and the facial recognition company mentioned in the email.
• Copies of documents sufficient to show any testing, trials, or assessments of the use of Amazon’s Rekognition Technology or any other facial recognition software.
• We further request a copy of any training materials for the use of facial recognition technology provided to your officers.
• We further request any MOUs, privacy policies, privacy impact assessments, directives or other policies your agency has governing the use of facial recognition technology.

The requested documents will be made available to the general public, and this request is not being made for commercial purposes. Please be aware that this request is being made by OpenTheGovernment, a non-partisan transparency organization for the purposes of informing the public. Therefore, we request that you waive all requests for fees related to this request.

In the event that there are fees, I would be grateful if you would inform me of the total charges in advance of fulfilling my request. I would prefer the request filled electronically, by e-mail attachment if available or CD-ROM if not.

Thank you in advance for your anticipated cooperation in this matter. Please do not hesitate to contact me with any questions you may have, through email or on the phone.

I look forward to receiving your response to this request within 10 calendar days, as the statute requires.

Sincerely,

Freddy Martinez
Policy Analyst, Open the Government
202 332 6793

Anaheim Police,

I am still interested in obtaining these records. I am not sure why I would have to arrange for collecting the records but we are still looking for them.

All the best,
Freddy Martinez