Training Records (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 3/8/2023 10:46:35 PM and given the reference number P001189-030823 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:

Training record for the following officers:
- Taylor Moreland
- Sarah Velling
- Robert McClelland
- Victor Pirak
- David Passarella
- Andrew Norton
- Jonathan Chin
- Ashley Seebold

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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03/09/2023
Rose Terse,
I am writing to request clarification on the officers listed in your request. Ashley Seebold is a Police Support Specialist in Records, not a commissioned officer. Please advise if you still are interested in receiving her training record. Please provide this clarification as soon as possible. We are required to give notice to all employees whose records are requested via public disclosure.
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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03/10/2023
Rose Terse,
This e-mail is to confirm that the City of Bellevue has received a public records request from you pursuant to the Washington Public Records Act, Ch. 42.56 RCW. Your new public disclosure request file number is P001189-030823, which will help us locate your information if you contact us for an update.
You are requesting:
To Whom It May Concern:

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

Training record for the following officers:
- Taylor Moreland
- Sarah Velling
- Robert McClelland
- Victor Pirak
- David Passarella
- Andrew Norton
- Jonathan Chin
- Ashley Seebold

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

Because of the nature of your request, notice of your request will be provided to subject City employee(s) and any union representing the employee(s) pursuant to RCW 42.56.250.
We anticipate an estimated release date of 3/31/2023 for responsive records that are not exempt from disclosure. Please be advised that an employee may seek to enjoin release of the records under RCW 42.56.540.

If additional clarification is needed or there is any change to our response timeline, we will be sure to let you know. Please let us know if you have any questions regarding the processing of your request via a message in the portal or calling Records at 425-452-6917.
Sincerely,
Jessica Abbott
Police Records Supervisor
Bellevue Police Department Public Records

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03/14/2023
Rose Terse,
Thank you for providing clarification, we will not provide Ashley Seebold's training record as per your message on 3/12/2023. Please advise if you are asking for a summary of training for each officer, or if you are requesting all records related to training for each officer.
Your request is still considered open. You should anticipate an additional response by the end of business on 3/31/2023, 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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03/22/2023
Rose Terse,
Information responsive to your request for public records is now available via the City of Bellevue Public Records Portal webpage. Please note that pop-ups may need to be enabled on your internet browser to access your files for download . We have not received clarification on your request, but we are providing the training transcripts as a courtesy. If we have not heard back from you by end of business on 3/30/2023, your request will be closed as complete. If we have misinterpreted your request, please let us know by that date.
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).

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03/23/2023

Rose Terse,

Every officer attends training at the Washington Criminal Justice Training Center (CJTC), but CJTC holds their own records as far as what that training entails (for us it would be a note that they attended either the Basic Academy or the Lateral Academy).The training transcripts you were provided reflects all the training that Personnel Services has tracked for those officers. It is possible that those officers have worked at other agencies and noted prior training in their application packets when they applied at Bellevue PD. While I can create a request for you, for application packets for each of them, that record type is exempt from public disclosure under . If you know where those officers worked before Bellevue PD, if applicable, you can request training transcripts from those agencies. RCW 42.56.250
If this satisfies your request, please let us know by 3/30/23. If we have not heard otherwise by end of business on that date, we will close your request as fulfilled.
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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03/30/2023
Rose Terse,
As per our last message, and because we have not received further information from you by the deadline we provided, we are closing your request as complete. If you do have further questions, please reach out to Records directly at 425-452-6917, or you can submit a new request via our records portal. 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).