APD DKPD emails
| Tracking # |
22-5410 |
| Submitted | June 4, 2022 |
| Due | June 8, 2022 |
| Est. Completion | None |
MuckRock users can file, duplicate, track, and share public records requests like this one. Learn more.
Communications
From: Atlanta Community Press Collective
To Whom It May Concern:
Pursuant to the Georgia Open Records Act, I hereby request the following records:
This is a public records request for a duplicate electronic copy of ALL communications including but not limited to meeting notes, emails, email chains, email attachments, meeting recordings and any other documents between the Atlanta Police Department and the DeKalb County Police Department from 04/01/2022 - 05/31/2022 concerning the proposed Public Safety Training Center in unincorporated DeKalb County. You may use the key words “public safety training center”, “PSTC”, “construction”, “Key Rd/Road”, “APF”, “Atlanta Police Foundation”.
The requested documents will be made available to the general public, and this request is not being made for commercial purposes.
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. I look forward to receiving your response to this request within 3 business days, as the statute requires.
Sincerely,
Atlanta Community Press Collective
From: Muckrock Staff
To Whom It May Concern:
I wanted to follow up on the following Georgia Open Records Act request, copied below, and originally submitted on June 4, 2022. Please let me know when I can expect to receive a response.
Thanks for your help, and let me know if further clarification is needed.
From: Atlanta Police Department
Per our conversation Ofc. Avery also to Ms.Spikes I have placed it on the spreadsheet to ASAP the action and has been assigned to my Sgt. Nelms. Open Records is working quickly to fill request please please bare with us. I thank everyone for their time and patience upon completion of this action.
-
~WRD0831
From: Atlanta Police Department
Good afternoon,
We have received your open records request. We are having our Information Management department process this request. If they need additional information, they may relay that inquiry to you. When we get the item count, we can generate a cost estimate for the review/redaction/production of those items. The estimated time for item count and a cost estimate is 5 business days. Time to full completion of the request (if the cost estimate is accepted) will depend on the item count the email search produces.
Best regards,
Officer K. Harris
Officer K. Harris
Atlanta Police Department
Open Records
From: Atlanta Police Department
The below request was entered as ORR # 22-5410 and assigned to Sgt. G. Nelms. We will forward your message to Sgt. Nelms to see if he can update you.
-
~WRD0831
From: Atlanta Community Press Collective
Great, thank you so much! Look forward to hearing from you.
From: Atlanta Police Department
Please see both attached documents
From: Atlanta Community Press Collective
Hello,
Would you please also provide the item count for this request? Thank you.
From: Atlanta Community Press Collective
Ms. Denius,
I wanted to bring this request to your attention. I understand that putting together each of our open records requests takes time and there can be fees attachted, but 1700 hours and $40.3k for 60 days worth of emails is way out of range with previous costs. Additonally, APD has not provided an estimated item count as was stated in the 6/8 email from Officer K. Harris. It is difficult to not see this as an intentional chilling effect on transparency.
I am not sure if the MuckRock platform will have the previous emails in this chain, so I have pasted them below. I have also attached the cost estimate documents just in case those are not easily accessible to you.
Thank you very much for your time and assistance in this matter,
Atlanta Community Press Collective
From: Atlanta Police Department
There were 519,099 responsive items.
From: Atlanta Police Department
Good afternoon. I am happy to look into this to make sure that the estimate of costs was properly calculated.
I am wondering if perhaps the issue lies with the parameters of the email search. Do you know the email domain for the DeKalb County Police Department? It could be that they did not restrict their search to only emails to and from that domain and only used the key words. That would likely result in an incredibly higher volume of responsive email records.
Kristen Denius
Chief Transparency Officer
-
~WRD0002
From: Atlanta Community Press Collective
Ms Denius,
The email domain should be "dekalbcountyga.gov". Additionally, I have also heard back from APD that there were 519,099 responsive items, so I suspect you are correct. Again, thank you so much for your help in all this.
Best,
Atlanta Community Press Collective
From: Atlanta Police Department
Thank you for that domain information. I have already reached out to the APD folks and will work with them to see if we can re-run the email search. I doubt very much that they want to review 500K emails any more than you want to pay for them to do it. :P
Kristen Denius
Chief Transparency Officer
-
~WRD0004
From: Atlanta Community Press Collective
I can imagine!! Thank you.
From: Atlanta Community Press Collective
Hello, hope everyone had a great weekend! Could we please have an update on this request? Thank you so much.
From: Atlanta Police Department
Good morning. The Public Affairs Unit in APD has been working with our IT department to try to get more accurate and specific results using your search parameters and the DeKalb County government mail domain you provided last week. The last I heard from yesterday, they were able to reduce the number of responsive email records significantly. You should be receiving an estimate of costs shortly.
Kristen Denius
Chief Transparency Officer
From: Atlanta Police Department
Thank you for placing an open records request for the Atlanta Police Department. Please see attached estimate. We do not need you to submit payment at this time, but please reply to this email with your acceptance of the estimated fees for this request. Once the request is completed, we will send you an official invoice for the costs incurred.
From: Atlanta Community Press Collective
Thank you for your time. I will let your know this week if we wish to proceed with this request. In the meantime, are you able to provide an approximate item count? Thank you for your time.
From: Atlanta Police Department
The subject line in our email sent below should be responsive to your inquiry:
Subject: : Open Record Cost Estimate 6,364 items(s) (11.76 GB) / ORR# 22-5410
Please let us know if you need anything.
Thank you for your time,
Lieutenant Scott Jimenez
Open Records Unit Commander
City of Atlanta Police Department
226 Peachtree St SW
Atlanta, GA 30303
Mobile – 404-450-4392
E-Fax – 404-739-0275
sajimenez@atlantaga.gov<mailto:sajimenez@atlantaga.gov>
[cid:image001.png@01D74837.893C23A0]
-
image001
From: Atlanta Community Press Collective
Great, thank you! MuckRock doesn't show the subject line of an email by default, so this is helpful to know for the future. I'll let you know shortly if we are going to proceed with this request.
From: Atlanta Community Press Collective
We accept these costs. Please proceed with the request.
From: Atlanta Police Department
Received. We will have the email extracted and processed.
Thank you for your time,
Lieutenant Scott Jimenez
Open Records Unit Commander
City of Atlanta Police Department
226 Peachtree St SW
Atlanta, GA 30303
Mobile – 404-450-4392
E-Fax – 404-739-0275
sajimenez@atlantaga.gov<mailto:sajimenez@atlantaga.gov>
[cid:image001.png@01D74837.893C23A0]
-
image001
From: Atlanta Community Press Collective
Hello,
Just checking in on the status of this request. Thank you!
From: Atlanta Community Press Collective
test
From: Atlanta Community Press Collective
Hello,
Once again asking for an update on this request. Thank you.
From: Muckrock Staff
Hello,
Just checking in on the status of this request. Thank you for your help.
Sincerely,
MuckRock
From: Atlanta Police Department
Good afternoon,
I am still in the process of getting information for your request. I will give you an update on Wednesday.
From: Atlanta Police Department
Good morning, attached is the first set of responsive emails.
Sergeant G.B. Nelms
Atlanta Police Department
Open Records Unit
Phone: (404) 546-2582
Email: Gnelms@atlantaga.gov<mailto:Gnelms@atlantaga.gov>
Blessed are the peacemakers, for they shall be called children of God.
Matthew 5:9
[cid:image001.png@01D8D7DC.0F874590]
-
image001
From: Atlanta Community Press Collective
Thank you. We look forward to receiving the other approximately ~6,347 emails in the near future.
Sincerely,
Atlanta Community Press Collective
From: Atlanta Community Press Collective
Sgt. Nelms,
After reviewing the initial set of emails, I noticed a few of the attachments are missing. To that end, I wanted to state for the record that we are more than happy to receieved these emails in their original Outlook .msg format if that helps speed the process along.
Thanks again for all you do,
Laura
From: Atlanta Community Press Collective
Please provide an update on this request and to the question I asked in October re: email attachments.
From: Muckrock Staff
To Whom It May Concern:
I wanted to follow up on the following Georgia Open Records Act request, copied below, and originally submitted on June 4, 2022. Please let me know when I can expect to receive a response. You had assigned it reference number #22-5410.
Thanks for your help, and let me know if further clarification is needed.
From: Muckrock Staff
To Whom It May Concern:
I wanted to follow up on the following Georgia Open Records Act request, copied below, and originally submitted on June 4, 2022. Please let me know when I can expect to receive a response. You had assigned it reference number #22-5410.
Thanks for your help, and let me know if further clarification is needed.
From: Muckrock Staff
To Whom It May Concern:
I wanted to follow up on the following Georgia Open Records Act request, copied below, and originally submitted on June 4, 2022. Please let me know when I can expect to receive a response. You had assigned it reference number #22-5410.
Thanks for your help, and let me know if further clarification is needed.
From: Muckrock Staff
To Whom It May Concern:
I wanted to follow up on the following Georgia Open Records Act request, copied below, and originally submitted on June 4, 2022. Please let me know when I can expect to receive a response. You had assigned it reference number #22-5410.
Thanks for your help, and let me know if further clarification is needed.
From: Muckrock Staff
To Whom It May Concern:
I wanted to follow up on the following Georgia Open Records Act request, copied below, and originally submitted on June 4, 2022. Please let me know when I can expect to receive a response. You had assigned it reference number #22-5410.
Thanks for your help, and let me know if further clarification is needed.
From: Muckrock Staff
To Whom It May Concern:
I wanted to follow up on the following Georgia Open Records Act request, copied below, and originally submitted on June 4, 2022. Please let me know when I can expect to receive a response. You had assigned it reference number #22-5410.
Thanks for your help, and let me know if further clarification is needed.
From: Atlanta Police Department
Good morning,
Many apologies. Looking at the dates on the request (April 4, 2022 – May 31, 2022), the emails that I sent were the only ones responsive to the request that were sent to me. I will look again to see if I missed something.
From: Muckrock Staff
To Whom It May Concern:
I wanted to follow up on the following Georgia Open Records Act request, copied below, and originally submitted on June 4, 2022. Please let me know when I can expect to receive a response. You had assigned it reference number #22-5410.
Thanks for your help, and let me know if further clarification is needed.
From: Muckrock Staff
To Whom It May Concern:
I wanted to follow up on the following Georgia Open Records Act request, copied below, and originally submitted on June 4, 2022. Please let me know when I can expect to receive a response. You had assigned it reference number #22-5410.
Thanks for your help, and let me know if further clarification is needed.
Files
pages