Mobile Biometric Technologies (Brentwood Police Department)

Dave Maass filed this request with the Brentwood Police Department of Brentwood, CA.
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From: Michael Morisy

Dear Custodian of Records/Public Records Coordinator,

I am collaborating with the Electronic Frontier Foundation, a public interest group, and the media organization MuckRock, to survey how law enforcement agencies deploy mobile biometric technologies.

Mobile biometric technologies can be defined as any mobile device or mobile app used by law enforcement agencies to scan, capture, analyze, store, or automatically recognize any physical or biological characteristic of a subject. Commonly used mobile biometric technologies include fingerprint/thumbprint collection, facial recognition, scans of the iris or other elements of the human eye, Rapid DNA, and tattoo recognition. (Please see below for examples.)

Pursuant to California Public Records Act (California Government Code §§ 6250), I request the following records pertaining to mobile biometric technologies, including those listed above, as well as other biometric technologies I have not identified:

1) Purchasing and procurement documents, including but not limited to: purchase orders, RFPs, responses to RFPs, invoices and contracts

2) Policy, procedural, and training documents, including but not limited to: use policies, standard operating procedures, training materials, presentations, privacy assessments, data retention policies, and other guidelines

3) Programming documents, including but not limited to: funding opportunity announcements, grant applications and grantor status/progress reports, reports to legislative bodies, annual reports

4) Audit documents, including but not limited to: audits of the system, misuse reports, and reports to oversight bodies

In your response, I would appreciate that you individually address each of the above categories of documents individually.

In addition to the above classes of documents, I am also seeking the following information:

- The total number of individuals whose biometric data has been collected over the last three years,
- The total number of [biometric data points] contained in the agency’s database
- The retention period for biometric data
- The number of mobile biometrics devices purchased and in use
- The total number of authorized users of the mobile biometrics devices
- Which external agencies and entities have access to biometric data in the database and under what conditions,
- Whether biometric data is combined with biographic data such as name and address in the database, and
- The process by which data is entered into the database

These documents will be published online and inform the public dialog over police technology. Because of the great public interest in these issues, I ask that you waive any fees. If your agency is unable to do so, please contact me with an estimate of the costs.

Thank you.

Sincerely,

Michael Morisy

Examples:

Mobile facial recognition
http://www.utsandiego.com/news/2013/nov/08/cir-facial-recognition-software-san-diego/

Mobile fingerprint readers
http://www.policechiefmagazine.org/magazine/index.cfm?fuseaction=display_arch&article_id=1824&issue_id=62009

Mobile iris scanners
http://www.reuters.com/article/2011/07/20/us-crime-identification-iris-idUSTRE76J4A120110720

Rapid DNA
http://www.policemag.com/channel/technology/articles/2014/02/speeding-up-dna-analysis.aspx

Mobile Tattoo Recognition
http://www.lawofficer.com/articles/print/volume-10/issue-4/features/new-smartphone-app-interprets.html

From: PD, webmail

If this is an emergency, please call 911. If you need a police response to a non-emergency situation, please call our dispatch center at (925) 778-2441.

Thank you for contacting the Brentwood Police Department.
Please fill in the Citizen's Input form on our website: http://www.brentwoodca.gov/gov/police/contact/citizen.asp

If you need to speak with someone during business hours, please call our Business Office at (925) 634-6911(Mon-Fri 8:30AM-5:00PM).

Sincerely,

Brentwood Police Department

From: MuckRock.com

To Whom It May Concern:

I wanted to follow up on the following Freedom of Information request, copied below, and originally submitted on Aug. 12, 2015. Please let me know when I can expect to receive a response, or if further clarification is needed.

Thanks for your help, and let me know if further clarification is needed.

From: PD, webmail

If this is an emergency, please call 911. If you need a police response to a non-emergency situation, please call our dispatch center at (925) 778-2441.

Thank you for contacting the Brentwood Police Department.
Please fill in the Citizen's Input form on our website: http://www.brentwoodca.gov/gov/police/contact/citizen.asp

If you need to speak with someone during business hours, please call our Business Office at (925) 634-6911(Mon-Fri 8:30AM-5:00PM).

Sincerely,

Brentwood Police Department

From: PD, webmail

If this is an emergency, please call 911. If you need a police response to a non-emergency situation, please call our dispatch center at (925) 778-2441.

Thank you for contacting the Brentwood Police Department.
Please fill in the Citizen's Input form on our website: http://www.brentwoodca.gov/gov/police/contact/citizen.asp

If you need to speak with someone during business hours, please call our Business Office at (925) 634-6911(Mon-Fri 8:30AM-5:00PM).

Sincerely,

Brentwood Police Department

From: MuckRock

Dear Custodian of Records/Public Records Coordinator,

I am collaborating with the Electronic Frontier Foundation, a public interest group, and the media organization MuckRock, to survey how law enforcement agencies deploy mobile biometric technologies.

Mobile biometric technologies can be defined as any mobile device or mobile app used by law enforcement agencies to scan, capture, analyze, store, or automatically recognize any physical or biological characteristic of a subject. Commonly used mobile biometric technologies include fingerprint/thumbprint collection, facial recognition, scans of the iris or other elements of the human eye, Rapid DNA, and tattoo recognition. (Please see below for examples.)

Pursuant to California Public Records Act (California Government Code §§ 6250), I request the following records pertaining to mobile biometric technologies, including those listed above, as well as other biometric technologies I have not identified:

1) Purchasing and procurement documents, including but not limited to: purchase orders, RFPs, responses to RFPs, invoices and contracts

2) Policy, procedural, and training documents, including but not limited to: use policies, standard operating procedures, training materials, presentations, privacy assessments, data retention policies, and other guidelines

3) Programming documents, including but not limited to: funding opportunity announcements, grant applications and grantor status/progress reports, reports to legislative bodies, annual reports

4) Audit documents, including but not limited to: audits of the system, misuse reports, and reports to oversight bodies

In your response, I would appreciate that you individually address each of the above categories of documents individually.

In addition to the above classes of documents, I am also seeking the following information:

- The total number of individuals whose biometric data has been collected over the last three years,
- The total number of [biometric data points] contained in the agency’s database
- The retention period for biometric data
- The number of mobile biometrics devices purchased and in use
- The total number of authorized users of the mobile biometrics devices
- Which external agencies and entities have access to biometric data in the database and under what conditions,
- Whether biometric data is combined with biographic data such as name and address in the database, and
- The process by which data is entered into the database

These documents will be published online and inform the public dialog over police technology. Because of the great public interest in these issues, I ask that you waive any fees. If your agency is unable to do so, please contact me with an estimate of the costs.

Thank you.

Sincerely,

Michael Morisy

Examples:

Mobile facial recognition
http://www.utsandiego.com/news/2013/nov/08/cir-facial-recognition-software-san-diego/

Mobile fingerprint readers
http://www.policechiefmagazine.org/magazine/index.cfm?fuseaction=display_arch&article_id=1824&issue_id=62009

Mobile iris scanners
http://www.reuters.com/article/2011/07/20/us-crime-identification-iris-idUSTRE76J4A120110720

Rapid DNA
http://www.policemag.com/channel/technology/articles/2014/02/speeding-up-dna-analysis.aspx

Mobile Tattoo Recognition
http://www.lawofficer.com/articles/print/volume-10/issue-4/features/new-smartphone-app-interprets.html

From: MuckRock.com

To Whom It May Concern:

I wanted to follow up on the following Freedom of Information request, copied below, and originally submitted on Aug. 12, 2015. Please let me know when I can expect to receive a response, or if further clarification is needed.

Thanks for your help, and let me know if further clarification is needed.

From: PD, webmail

If this is an emergency, please call 911. If you need a police response to a non-emergency situation, please call our dispatch center at (925) 778-2441.

Thank you for contacting the Brentwood Police Department.
Please fill in the Citizen's Input form on our website: http://www.brentwoodca.gov/gov/police/contact/citizen.asp

If you need to speak with someone during business hours, please call our Business Office at (925) 634-6911(Mon-Fri 8:30AM-5:00PM).

Sincerely,

Brentwood Police Department

From: Cardinale, Sonia

Greetings,

I am responding to your Public Records Act Request dated September 1, 2015 regarding the use of mobile biometric technologies. The Brentwood Police Department does not have any records responsive to this request. See below:

1. Purchasing and procurement documents, including but not limited to: purchase orders, RFP's, responses to RFP's, invoices and contracts.

Response: Our 9 mobile ID units were provided to the Brentwood Police Department from the Contra Costa County Sheriff's Department.

2. Policy, procedural, and training documents, including but not limited to: use policies, standard operating procedures, training materials, presentations, privacy assessments, data retention policies, and other guidelines.

Response: No written policy. Use instructions attached.

3. Programming documents, including but not limited to: funding opportunity announcements, grant applications and grantor status/progress reports, reports to legislative bodies annual reports.

Response: Not applicable, see number 1.

4. Audit documents, including but not limited to: audits of the system, misuse reports and reports to oversight bodies.

Response: None

Should you have additional technical questions regarding this data, please contact the Contra Costa County Sheriff's Office which collects, stores and manages the Mobile ID program.

Thank you.

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[Description: http://0intra/logoDocs/gif/green_tag.gif]Sonia Cardinale | Police Records Supervisor
City of Brentwood | Police Department
9100 Brentwood Boulevard | Brentwood, CA 94513-4000
* (925) 809-7725 | 7 (925) 809-7799| * scardinale@brentwoodca.gov<mailto:youremail@brentwoodca.gov>

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