Missing Native Americans (Ontario County Sheriffs Office)
| Multi Request | Missing Native Americans |
| Submitted | March 23, 2021 |
| Est. Completion | None |
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From: Urban Indigenous Collective
To Whom It May Concern:
Pursuant to the New York Freedom of Information Law, I hereby request the following records:
Basic information on all cases (open and closed) of missing American Indian/Alaska Native persons (including juveniles) within your region, from 2000 through 2020; this basic information can include but is not limited to: person name, age, DOB, incident date, case closure date, county/jurisdiction in which person was reported missing.
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,
Urban Indigenous Collective
From: Muckrock Staff
To Whom It May Concern:
I wanted to follow up on the following New York Freedom of Information Law request, copied below, and originally submitted on March 23, 2021. 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: Ontario County Sheriffs Office
Ontario County
Dept. of Records, Archives and Information Management Services
3051 County Complex Drive
Canandaigua, New York 14424
Phone: 585-396-4376
Facsimile: 585-3964390
April 13, 2021
Urban Indigenous Collective
c/o Muckrock News
Dept.MR 110004
411 A Highland Ave.
Somerville, MA 02144-2516
To Whom it May Concern:
This is in response to your FOIL request concerning copies of case records (open and closed) of missing American Indians/ Alaska Native persons within Ontario County 2000-2020. The information should include: name, age, DOB, incident date, closure date, county in which reported missing.
The Sheriff's reports(both paper or electronic) are not filed according to race; only by incident number and date; therefore each individual incident report for the last 20 years would have to be pulled and reviewed. We do not have the staff or time in order to complete this request.
We ask to please narrow and revise your request.
Sincerely,
Rosemary Switzer
Rosemary Switzer
Records Access Officer
"This message may contain confidential, sensitive and/or proprietary information and is intended for the person/entity to whom it was originally addressed. Any use by others is strictly prohibited."
From: Muckrock Staff
To Whom It May Concern:
I wanted to follow up on the following New York Freedom of Information Law request, copied below, and originally submitted on March 23, 2021. 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: Muckrock Staff
To Whom It May Concern:
I wanted to follow up on the following New York Freedom of Information Law request, copied below, and originally submitted on March 23, 2021. 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: Ontario County Sheriffs Office
To Whom It may Concern:
Below is the response that was sent concerning this request. Please refine and narrow your search.
Thank you.
On April 13, 2021:
Subject: FOIL request
Ontario County
Dept. of Records, Archives and Information Management Services
3051 County Complex Drive
Canandaigua, New York 14424
Phone: 585-396-4376
Facsimile: 585-3964390
April 13, 2021
Urban Indigenous Collective
c/o Muckrock News
Dept.MR 110004
411 A Highland Ave.
Somerville, MA 02144-2516
To Whom it May Concern:
This is in response to your FOIL request concerning copies of case records (open and closed) of missing American Indians/ Alaska Native persons within Ontario County 2000-2020. The information should include: name, age, DOB, incident date, closure date, county in which reported missing.
The Sheriff's reports(both paper or electronic) are not filed according to race; only by incident number and date; therefore each individual incident report for the last 20 years would have to be pulled and reviewed. We do not have the staff or time in order to complete this request.
We ask to please narrow and revise your request.
Sincerely,
Rosemary Switzer
Rosemary Switzer
Records Access Officer?
"This message may contain confidential, sensitive and/or proprietary information and is intended for the person/entity to whom it was originally addressed. Any use by others is strictly prohibited."
From: Urban Indigenous Collective
Thank you for replying back to our FOIL request,
We did have a few follow-up questions based on your response:
1. Is there a particular reason as to why you do not keep records based on race and/or ethnicity?
2. Is this categorization system similarly to how you file murder records?
3. Are there any discussions on filing or recording missing and murdered records based on race and/or ethnicity?
Thank you in advance for your anticipated participation in the matter.
Sincerely,
Urban Indigenous Collective
From: Muckrock Staff
To Whom It May Concern:
I wanted to follow up on the following New York Freedom of Information Law request, copied below, and originally submitted on March 29, 2021. 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: Muckrock Staff
To Whom It May Concern:
I wanted to follow up on the following New York Freedom of Information Law request, copied below, and originally submitted on March 29, 2021. 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: Ontario County Sheriffs Office
To Whom It Concerns:
To follow up on this follow request and to answer the following questions:
We did have a few follow-up questions based on your response:
1. Is there a particular reason as to why you do not keep records based on race and/or ethnicity?
2. Is this categorization system similarly to how you file murder records?
3. Are there any discussions on filing or recording missing and murdered records based on race and/or ethnicity?
1. We are a small rural community and as our operational procedures are established we do not file or keep our records according to race and or ethnicity. They are filed by incident number and date.
2. Yes, again we file by our numbering system.
3. No discussions on filing or recording missing and murdered records based on race and/ or ethnicity.
Again we ask to narrow your search.
Sincerely,
Rosemary Switzer
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