IAPro internal investigations (Bellevue Police Department)

Dear Rose Terse,

Thank you for submitting your request for public records to the City of Bellevue Police Department. Your request was received in our office on 7/25/2023 7:53:10 PM and given the reference number P003781-072523 for tracking purposes. The details of your request are below.

To Whom It May Concern:

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

I request the listing of internal investigations in IA Pro with columns:
Occurred date Case/CAD/Incident No Employee ID/Serial number First name Last name Date hired Incident type Directive Finding Finding date Action taken Employee Type

I request the listing be provided in Excel format so I can easily sort/filter it. Redactions should be done in Excel.

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 5 business days, as the statute requires.

Sincerely,

Rose Terse

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The City must provide a preliminary response to your request within five (5) business days (RCW 42.56.520); the day the request is received does not count as one of the five (5) days. Weekends and holidays observed by the City are also excluded in the calculation. For additional information regarding our response options, please click here: Prompt Response Required. The City of Bellevue has adopted a Public Records Fee Schedule, please review it for information associated with fees that may be assessed pursuant to your request.
You may monitor the progress of your request via the link below; you will receive an email when your request has been completed. We thank you for using the Public Records Center.
City of Bellevue Police Department

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08/01/2023
Rose Terse,
I am writing to update you on the status of your public disclosure request submitted to the Bellevue Police Department.
Your request is still considered open. You did not provide a date range for your request, so we are writing to ask what years you are looking for. If we have not received clarification from you within 30 days of this message, we will process this as a request for 2023 only. You should anticipate an additional response by the end of business on 9/5/2023, if not sooner.
If you have any questions regarding your disclosure request or any other matter, please contact the Bellevue Police Department Records Unit via the Public Records Portal or by telephone at (425) 452-6917.
Thank you for your patience,
Jessica Abbott
Bellevue Police Department

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08/03/2023
Rose Terse,
I am writing to update you on the status of your public disclosure request submitted to the Bellevue Police Department. Your request is still considered open. Based on the clarification you provided, we interpret your request to be for an excel spreadsheet listing internal investigations that are stored in IAPro: specifically, for IAPro dataset columns that show: (1) Occurred Date; (2) Tracking#; (3) Case #; (4) Involved Employee ID #; (5) Involved Employee Badge #; (6) Involved Employee's First Name; (7) Involved Employee's Last Name; (8) Involved Employee's Hire Date; (9) Incident Type; (10) Disposition/Finding; (11) Finding Date; (12) Action Taken; and (13) Employee Type. The column names you originally provided are slightly different than what they are titled for our department.  We interpret "Internal investigations" to be "Dissatisfaction with Service (DS)"; "Informal Standards;" and "Formal Standards" investigations maintained by the BPD Office of Accountability. If our interpretation of your request is not accurate, please provide a correction within 30 days of this communication. Otherwise, we will process your request with the above interpretation.
You should anticipate an additional response by the end of business on 9/5/2023, if not sooner.
If you have any questions regarding your disclosure request or any other matter, please contact the Bellevue Police Department Records Unit via the Public Records Portal or by telephone at (425) 452-6917.
Thank you for your patience,
Jessica Abbott
Bellevue Police Department

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09/05/2023
Rose Terse,
I am writing to update you on the status of your public disclosure request submitted to the Bellevue Police Department.
Your request is still considered open. As we have not received communication from you, we will process your request per the interpretation we sent to you. You should anticipate an additional response by the end of business on 9/22/2023, if not sooner.
If you have any questions regarding your disclosure request or any other matter, please contact the Bellevue Police Department Records Unit via the Public Records Portal or by telephone at (425) 452-6917.
Thank you for your patience,
Jessica Abbott
Bellevue Police Department

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09/19/2023
Rose Terse,
Information responsive to your request for public records is now available via the City of Bellevue Public Records Portal website. Pop-ups may need to be enabled on your internet browser to access your files for download . This concludes our search of records in the custody of the Bellevue Police Department. Your request is now closed; we have nothing additionally responsive to this request.

Pursuant to the Public Records Act RCW 42.56, responsive records may be redacted or exempt. Please review the accompanying privilege log for further information, if such redactions or exemptions have been applied.
Per the State Public Records Act (RCW 42.56.120) and City Public Records Act Rules (Section 6), a public records request may be considered abandoned and subsequently closed if a requestor fails to fulfill their obligation to claim an installment of records; claim the entire production of records; inspect the records; or fails to pay the deposit or final payment for requested records within 30 days of this notification.
If you believe the information furnished has been incorrectly redacted or is incomplete, you may file a written appeal. The appeal must include your name and address, a copy of the redacted document and a copy of this letter together with a brief statement identifying the basis of the appeal. Please mail your appeal to:
Bellevue Police Department
Attn: Records Supervisor
P.O. Box 90012
Bellevue, WA  98009-9012
Thank you,
Jessica Abbott
Bellevue Police Department RPC 4.4 Inadvertent Disclosure Notification: CR 26 (b) (6) Claw Back Provision *** Please read this notice carefully ***
Dear legal practitioner: Please take notice that we take reasonable precautions to prevent the disclosure of privileged or confidential materials, including those protected by the attorney-client privilege and/or work product doctrine, when responding to request for records.  These precautions include, but are not limited to, carefully locating and assembling responsive records, performing an intra-departmental review of the records for purposes of determining whether they contain any privileged or confidential materials, forwarding the records to the County Prosecuting Attorney's Office for independent legal review, meeting and conferring with the Prosecuting Attorney's Office to compare and reconcile any conflicting results of our separate independent reviews and, if necessary, creating a withholding log.  Despite our having taken these precautions, occasionally a mistake is made and privileged or confidential documents are inadvertently produced.  To that end, we wanted to notify you that there is a possibility that the records being produced may contain privileged or confidential materials.  The inadvertent or unintentional production of privileged or confidential documents, without a privileged or confidentiality designation should not be considered a waiver in whole or in part of any claim of privileged or confidential treatment, and any document that initially is produced without bearing a privileged or confidentiality designation may later be so designated.  In the event that you believe you have received privileged or confidential materials, we would ask that you promptly notify us of this fact and take action as necessary to comply with the obligations set forth in Rule of Professional Conduct 4.4 and/or Civil Rule 26 (b)(6).