University of California Transfer Applications
| Submitted | Dec. 30, 2018 |
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From: Nick Witkin
To Whom It May Concern:
Pursuant to the California Public Records Act, I hereby request the following records:
Transfer student applications, in full, sent to University of California campuses in 2016 that resulted in the applicant being admitted to the University of California campus that they applied to. Please limit the total number of records sent in response to this request to the first 200.
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 10 calendar days, as the statute requires.
Sincerely,
Nick Witkin
From: University of California
Dear Mr. Witkin,
Your Public Records Act request (below) has been received and logged by the University of California Office of the President (UCOP) CPRA office. You will receive a formal acknowledgement email in a few days. Please send any future communications regarding your request to pra@ucop.edu
Sincerely,
Dan Scannell
From: Muckrock Staff
To Whom It May Concern:
I wanted to follow up on the following California Public Records Act request, copied below, and originally submitted on Dec. 30, 2018. 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: University of California
Charlie/Maria-
Please disregard - I'll respond to the requestor, and remind them (again) that communications re this request should go to pra@ucop.edu<mailto:pra@ucop.edu>
Dan
From: University of California
Dear Mr. Witkin,
The University is prohibited from releasing transfer student applications pursuant to the federal Family Educational Rights and Privacy Act (34 CFR 99.31) because they contain student names and other personally identifiable information. Student applications are also exempt under Government Code section 6254(c) and the Information Practices Act (Civil Code section 1798.24), which are incorporated into the California Public Records Act pursuant to Government Code section 6254(k).
The information you seek is contained in a database, and not hard copy files that can be redacted appropriately. There is no existing record that contains transfer student applicant data, where the data that is exempt from disclosure has been removed. The information you requested is not available in an off-the-shelf report and/or cannot be created via a simple data query. Due to limited staff/resources, the University does not currently have capacity to provide this courtesy to do the programming required to create the custom data report that you have requested. Public entities have no duty to create a record that does not exist at the time of the request (Gov. Code ยง 6252, subd. (e); Haynie v. Superior Court (2001) 26 Cal.4th 1061.). This is a well-established rule under the federal Freedom of Information Act, upon which CPRA is based (See NLRB v. Sears, Roebuck & Co. (1975) 421U.S.132, 162, and Yeager v. Drug Enforcement Admin. (D.C. Cir. 1982) 678 F.2d 315, 323.
Sincerely,
Dan Scannell
University of California
From: University of California
Thanks.
Sent from my iPad
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