LoveLife Charlotte Protest Police Records - November 2018
| Submitted | Nov. 20, 2018 |
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From: Kate Bertash
To Whom It May Concern:
Pursuant to the North Carolina Public Records Law, I hereby request the following records:
Compilations of equipment or munitions to be used, after action reports, incident reports, Special Event Threat Assessment (SETA) Reports, and any other reports on preparing for the protests in regard to the LoveLife Charlotte "Prayer Walk" protest in front of 3220 Latrobe Dr, Charlotte, NC on November 17th, 2018 and the LoveLife Charlotte "Prayer Walk" protest on December 3rd, 2017. I would also request department email messages for the for the November 17th, 2018 and December 3rd, 2017 protests.
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 business days.
Sincerely,
Kate Bertash
From: Charlotte-Mecklenburg Police Department
Dear Ms. Bertash:
This office is in receipt of your request. We are in the process of reviewing your request, and we will comply in accordance with N.C.G.S. 132-1.4.
Sincerely,
Shannon T. Dixon
Police Paralegal
601 E. Trade St.
Charlotte NC 28202
Shannon.Dixon @cmpd.org
From: Charlotte-Mecklenburg Police Department
Ms. Bertash,
Can you please clarify the portion of your request that asks for emails? Are you asking for emails between specific individuals at CMPD and LoveLife?
Sincerely,
Shannon T. Dixon
Police Paralegal
601 E. Trade St.
Charlotte NC 28202
Shannon.Dixon @cmpd.org
Charlotte-Mecklenburg Police Department
North Carolina Public Records Law Office
600 East 4th Street
Charlotte, NC 28202
November 20, 2018
To Whom It May Concern:
Pursuant to the North Carolina Public Records Law, I hereby request the following records:
Compilations of equipment or munitions to be used, after action reports, incident reports, Special Event Threat Assessment (SETA) Reports, and any other reports on preparing for the protests in regard to the LoveLife Charlotte "Prayer Walk" protest in front of 3220 Latrobe Dr, Charlotte, NC on November 17th, 2018 and the LoveLife Charlotte "Prayer Walk" protest on December 3rd, 2017. I would also request department email messages for the for the November 17th, 2018 and December 3rd, 2017 protests.
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 business days.
Sincerely,
Kate Bertash
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From: Kate Bertash
Hi There,
Thank you for following up so promptly. To clarify, I am requesting department emails between employees of CMPD regarding this protest, and emails between LoveLife and CMPD. Please let me know if any additional information is required to fulfill this request.
Best,
Kate Bertash
From: Charlotte-Mecklenburg Police Department
Kate,
For clarification, you mean emails between ALL CMPD employees and LoveLife? I have to ask because when this goes to IT I'm sure they will need to know.
Thanks,
Shannon
From: Charlotte-Mecklenburg Police Department
From: Dixon, Shannon
Sent: Tuesday, November 27, 2018 11:03 AM
To: requests@muckrock.com
Subject: RE: LoveLife Charlotte Protest
Dear Ms. Bertash:
This office is in receipt of your request dated November 27, 2018. We are in the process of reviewing your request, and we will comply in accordance with N.C.G.S. 132-1.4.
Sincerely,
Shannon T. Dixon
Police Paralegal
601 E. Trade St.
Charlotte NC 28202
Shannon.Dixon @cmpd.org
From: Charlotte-Mecklenburg Police Department
Ms. Bertash,
I spoke with the IT department and it is very time consuming and complex to search every CMPD mailbox for a specific keyword. Could you please provide for me the email addresses or at a minimum the email domain that these emails from LoveLife would be coming from.
Sincerely,
Shannon
From: Kate Bertash
Hi Shannon,
Thank you for your help with my request, I appreciate that this is time consuming and I hope I can make it easier. You'll be looking for emails where the sender or recipient domain will be at a @lovelife.org address. Additionally you may check for each of these emails:
- psalm89vs7@gmail.com
- mafisher@carolina.rr.com
- blessyann3@yahoo.com
Thanks very much.
Best wishes,
Kate Bertash
From: Charlotte-Mecklenburg Police Department
Thank you Kate.
From: Charlotte-Mecklenburg Police Department
Kate,
Good afternoon! There is not a police report for the call on Latrobe Drive on November 17th. The only document we have is the attached CAD event that was created for the call.
Brad
Lieutenant Brad Koch
Office of the Chief
Charlotte-Mecklenburg Police Department
p. 704-231-3845 | www.cmpd.org<http://www.cmpd.org/>
CMPD Newsroom<http://charlottenc.gov/CMPD/Pages/Newsroom.aspx>
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From: Kate Bertash
Hi there,
I wanted to check in on this request as so far the only item I have received is a call for service which appears to regard an alarm trigger and is unrelated to these protests.
To clarify my initial public records request pursuant to the North Carolina Public Records Law, I am looking for all communications and documentation regarding the LoveLife Charlotte "Prayer Walk" protest in front of 3220 Latrobe Dr, Charlotte, NC on November 17th, 2018 and the LoveLife Charlotte "Prayer Walk" protest on December 3rd, 2017, including:
- Permits for these events
- staffing rosters for these events, indicating how many officers were assigned to each protest
- Arrest reports
- Incident reports
- after action reports
- field analysis reports
- photographs
- video footage
- open source intelligence
- other intelligence reports
- memoranda
- situational awareness reports
- emails with the keyword "Prayer Walk" or "Love Life Charlotte"
- lists of munitions or equipment used for the operation
I hope this clarification of my public information request is helpful. I appreciate your assistance in locating and remitting these records.
Best,
Kate Bertash
From: Charlotte-Mecklenburg Police Department
Kate,
There are no CMPD files that would fall under this request. You may reach out to the city of Charlotte as they are the repository of some of those documents, if they exist. There are no police reports from that day.
Brad
Lieutenant Brad Koch
Office of the Chief
Charlotte-Mecklenburg Police Department
p. 704-231-3845 | www.cmpd.org<http://www.cmpd.org/>
CMPD Newsroom<http://charlottenc.gov/CMPD/Pages/Newsroom.aspx>
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From: Kate Bertash
Thanks Lt. Koch. To confirm, there are no records of any kind for either the November 17th, 2018 and December 2nd, 2017 protests? The correction is mine, it seems as it was on 12/2/17.
I ask because it was well-publicized in news outlets that Flip Benham was arrested at the 12/2/17 event for violating a noise ordinance. Is there no record of this arrest at CMPD?
To further clarify do you have lists of how many officers were staffed at each event on those dates? Lists of the equipment like barricades brought by CMPD to the event? Or copies of the permits that would have had to be filed for both events?
Thank you for any information you can provide. I sincerely appreciate all the work put in to check for these materials.
Best wishes,
Kate Bertash
From: Charlotte-Mecklenburg Police Department
This has been added to the Public Records Request queue. I will be in touch when I receive a reply.
Brad
Lieutenant Brad Koch
Office of the Chief
Charlotte-Mecklenburg Police Department
p. 704-231-3845 | www.cmpd.org<http://www.cmpd.org/>
CMPD Newsroom<http://charlottenc.gov/CMPD/Pages/Newsroom.aspx>
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From: Charlotte-Mecklenburg Police Department
Good morning Kate,
Please find the attached CAD reports and parade permits/applications for the LoveLife Charlotte Prayer walk protests at 3220 Latrobe Dr. from 12/02/2017 and 11/17/2018. We don't have any other records responsive to this request.
No reports were found regarding the 12/02/2017 arrest of Phillip "Flip" Benham. The information about officers and barricades is not public under GS 132-1.7.
Brad
Lieutenant Brad Koch
Office of the Chief
Charlotte-Mecklenburg Police Department
p. 704-231-3845 | www.cmpd.org<http://www.cmpd.org/>
CMPD Newsroom<http://charlottenc.gov/CMPD/Pages/Newsroom.aspx>
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