Palantir Technologies communications and documents (Baltimore Police Department)

Mr. Harris,

You have made a MPIA request that is anticipated to take in excess of 2 hours to decipher, send to multiple custodians to gather, and process public release. The staff time is billed at $50.00 per hour after the first two hours of staff time. Please note, pursuant to General Provisions Article, § 4-206 of the Annotated Code of Maryland, the official custodian of public records may charge an applicant a reasonable fee for the search, preparation, and reproduction of a public record. This provision reflects a legislative judgment that the taxpayers need not subsidize PIA requesters (except for the first two hours of search and preparation time, which are free to the requester under State Government Article, § 10- 621(c)), See 81Opinion of the Attorney General 154 (1996).

A copy of all communications with Palantir Technologies Inc, aka Palantir, including any presentations or documents supplied by the company. I sent this to the I T Section to run e-mails with the term Palantir. Based on experience, this process takes about 3 hours of staff time. Two hours of this work is not charged.

Staff time and computer resources need to retrieve e-mails
*Acknowledgment correspondence back to the Petitioner;
*Document Compliance Unit’s own analysis of the request from Petitioner;
* Document Compliance Unit’s corresponding with the IT Division regarding the request;
*IT Personnel analyzing the parameters of the requested search;
*IT Personnel querying the requested search terms/parameters to the archived email system
*IT Personnel analyzing search results, corresponding back to Legal Affairs Division
*IT Personnel burning responsive communications onto CD, delivering same to Legal Affairs Division
*Legal Division downloading and uploading responsive correspondence to review platform
*Legal Division calculating the total pages of e-mails and attachments and estimating the final review costs.
Please advise if you are willing pay the reasonable cost as allowed by the public information laws of Maryland.

A copy of all contracts with Palantir. I will asked the fiscal section to review their records. If records are available, at least 2 hours to gather and process.
Any audits, progress statements, performance assessments, or internal or external reports concerning Palantir’ s software, hardware or services. Will have to communicate with multiple custodians to see if Palantir is being used by the BPD.
Any summary documents detailing annual payments to Palantir. Will ask the Fiscal Section if and the list of the annual payments.

Please advise this office if MuckRock or its client would be willing to pay the actual cost of processing this request request.

Sincerely,

Wayne Brooks
Assistant to Legal Affairs
Baltimore Police Department
100 N Holiday St., Room 100,
Baltimore, Md. 21202
DCU@baltimorepolice.org<mailto:DCU@baltimorepolice.org>

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Mr. Harris,

I have contacted the Baltimore Police Department’s I T Director, Commanding Officer of Homeland Security and the Director of Fiscal Section. Each has informed me that the Baltimore Police Department does not used Palantir, have no contracts with Palantir and have no records of payments to Palantir.

The Director of I T will run an e-mail search using the term Palantir. If any communications are located, I will contact you with the costs reviewing the e-mails for disclosablity.

Thank You

Wayne Brooks
Assistant to Legal Affairs
Baltimore Police Department
410 396 2395

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The materials in this e-mail are private and may contain sensitive law enforcement information. Please note that e-mail is not necessarily confidential or secure. Use of e-mail constitutes your acknowledgment of these confidentiality and security limitations. If you are not the intended recipient, be advised that any unauthorized use, disclosure, copying, distribution, or the taking of any action in reliance on the contents of this information is strictly prohibited as covered by the Electronic Communications Privacy Act, 18 U.S.C. §§ 2510-2521. If you have received this e-mail in error, please immediately notify the sender via telephone or return e-mail.

Mr. Harris,

One January 10, 2017 I wrote you and advise that I have been in communication with the Baltimore Police Department’s I T Director, Commanding Officer of Homeland Security and the Director of Fiscal Section. Each had informed me that the Baltimore Police Department does not used Palantir, has no contracts with Palantir and has no records of payments to Palantir.

I also advised you I would ask Director of I T will run an e-mail search using the term Palantir. That email search has been completed. There were 83 emails and 252 pages including attachment. Each page must undergo a legal review for disclosablity. After an initial review of emails, the reviewing attorney did not see any e-mails to or from the vendor Palantir Technologies.

If you would like the actual disclosable e-mails see the cost and procedures below.

The average attorney time of review e-mails for release is thirty to sixty pages reviewed per hour (e-mails and attachments). Time differs depending on the size or complexity of the e-mails. Confidential opinions, deliberations, advice or recommendations from one governmental employee or official to another for the purpose of assisting the latter official in the decision-making function may be withheld. In addition, part of an interagency, or intra-agency letter or memorandum that would not be available by law to a private party in litigation can be withheld. There are 252 Pages of records that would have to be reviewed. Estimate of 1 page reviewed per Minute = Four (4) Hours of Initial Legal Review. time (252pages ÷ 60 = 4.2). Attorney review time is billed at $50.00 per hour. The cost of this review is $200.00

If you would like start the e-mail review please remit check or money order in the amount of $200.00 payable to the Director of Finance; mail the payment to the Baltimore Police Department’s Office Legal Affairs, 100 N Holiday St., Room 100, Baltimore, Md. 21202 Please refer to tracking # MPIA17 018 in any subsequent correspondence in this matter.

Thank You

Wayne Brooks
Assistant to Legal Affairs
Baltimore Police Department
410 396 2395

CONFIDENTIALITY NOTICE: The information contained in or attached to this e-mail message may be a privileged and confidential attorney/client communication, or otherwise confidential, and is intended only for the use of the individual or entity to whom it is addressed. If you are not the intended recipient, or the employee or agent responsible for delivering the message to the intended recipient, you are notified that any distribution or copying of this communication is strictly prohibited. If you have received this communication in error, please notify the Legal Affairs Division immediately by telephone at 410-396-2496 and DELETE the message from your system immediately. Thank you.

The materials in this e-mail are private and may contain sensitive law enforcement information. Please note that e-mail is not necessarily confidential or secure. Use of e-mail constitutes your acknowledgment of these confidentiality and security limitations. If you are not the intended recipient, be advised that any unauthorized use, disclosure, copying, distribution, or the taking of any action in reliance on the contents of this information is strictly prohibited as covered by the Electronic Communications Privacy Act, 18 U.S.C. §§ 2510-2521. If you have received this e-mail in error, please immediately notify the sender via telephone or return e-mail.

Understood

Sincerely,

Wayne Brooks
Assistant to Legal Affairs
Baltimore Police Department
100 N Holiday St., Room 100,
Baltimore, Md. 21202
DCU@baltimorepolice.org<mailto:DCU@baltimorepolice.org>

CONFIDENTIALITY NOTICE: The information contained in or attached to this e-mail message may be a privileged and confidential attorney/client communication, or otherwise confidential, and is intended only for the use of the individual or entity to whom it is addressed. If you are not the intended recipient, or the employee or agent responsible for delivering the message to the intended recipient, you are notified that any distribution or copying of this communication is strictly prohibited. If you have received this communication in error, please notify the Legal Affairs Division immediately by telephone at 410-396-2496 and DELETE the message from your system immediately. Thank you.

The materials in this e-mail are private and may contain sensitive law enforcement information. Please note that e-mail is not necessarily confidential or secure. Use of e-mail constitutes your acknowledgment of these confidentiality and security limitations. If you are not the intended recipient, be advised that any unauthorized use, disclosure, copying, distribution, or the taking of any action in reliance on the contents of this information is strictly prohibited as covered by the Electronic Communications Privacy Act, 18 U.S.C. §§ 2510-2521. If you have received this e-mail in error, please immediately notify the sender via telephone or return e-mail.