API Request Form (Chicago Police Department)

To Whom It May Concern:

Pursuant to the Illinois Freedom of Information Act., I hereby request the following records:

A copy of all memos, emails, communications, notes, documents, tickets, messages with details or info that describes shutting down, or disabling or removing the CPD Arrests API access request form, found at: https://publicsearch1.chicagopolice.org/RequestInfo site. which is used to request access to CPD's arrests API.

Please restrict your search from May 15 to the date of processing this request.

To help in your search, it should be known that the site was up on Jun 4, 2020 03:53:33 GMT (according to google search cache) and is no longer available.

Keywords that may be useful in your search (but please do not limit the search to these keywords): API, requestinfo, publicsearch1, developer, api key, authentication, "arrest api", "arrests api".

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,

Matt Chapman

Are there any updates to this request?

Hello,

The following request was originally submitted via email on 6/8/20. Please let us know if we can provide any more information for it to be processed. Thank you!

Sincerely,
MuckRock

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Original request:

To Whom It May Concern:

Pursuant to the Illinois Freedom of Information Act., I hereby request the following records:

A copy of all memos, emails, communications, notes, documents, tickets, messages with details or info that describes shutting down, or disabling or removing the CPD Arrests API access request form, found at: https://publicsearch1.chicagopolice.org/RequestInfo site. which is used to request access to CPD's arrests API.

Please restrict your search from May 15 to the date of processing this request.

To help in your search, it should be known that the site was up on Jun 4, 2020 03:53:33 GMT (according to google search cache) and is no longer available.

Keywords that may be useful in your search (but please do not limit the search to these keywords): API, requestinfo, publicsearch1, developer, api key, authentication, "arrest api", "arrests api".

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,

Matt Chapman

Can I please have a response to this ASAP?

As I've said over over the phone -- three times over the past two weeks -- your agency has not provided me with a FOIA number for this request. Your automated system never sent one!

I'm unsure why you aren't able to view the request text despite your response containing the text of the request. I will assume, in good faith, that your agency is having software issues that's preventing you from seeing the full text of this request. If that's the case, then please raise this issue ASAP to your technical staff. Should this be a software bug, please consider it a major issue, as it would be preventing requests from going through to your office, as it seems is happening with this request.

For your convenience, I am providing you with the below information so that it may help you find this request. If you need ANY additional information, please contact me ASAP.
-Link to the request on Muckrock.com: https://www.muckrock.com/foi/chicago-169/api-request-form-chicago-police-department-94555/#follow-up
-Link to the raw email of your response: https://www.muckrock.com/foi/raw_email/909607/
-An attachment containing your email, in raw format, which includes the text of the request.
-An attachment that contains the text of the original request.
-The request text:
"A copy of all memos, emails, communications, notes, documents, tickets, messages with details or info that describes shutting down, or disabling or removing the CPD Arrests API access request form, found at: https://publicsearch1.chicagopolice.org/RequestInfo site. which is used to request access to CPD's arrests API.
Please restrict your search from May 15 to the date of processing this request.
To help in your search, it should be known that the site was up on Jun 4, 2020 03:53:33 GMT (according to google search cache) and is no longer available.
Keywords that may be useful in your search (but please do not limit the search to these keywords): API, requestinfo, publicsearch1, developer, api key, authentication, "arrest api", "arrests api"."

If you're still unable to view the request text, neither through the email itself, the muckrock link, the attached raw email, the attached text of the original request communication, the above text, or through your FOIA system, please let me know ASAP and I will fax you over a copy of the request.

PLEASE NOTE: THIS IS NOT A NEW REQUEST.

Can I please have an update to this request?

This request is almost two months old now. Are there any updates that you can provide me?

Thank you for the followup.

I want to be very explicitly clear about the phone call from earlier -- I am not requesting that the request itself be narrowed. The suggestion was to search those accounts first and then provide what was possible from those as if it were one batch among several. Should emails be found, then it would be a matter of running a new request with the recipients of those emails.

Thank you for your response and the responsive documents.

Your response states:

"Per your conversation with Sgt. Pete Edwards of the FOIA Uniton August 13, 2020, you agreed to narrow your FOIA request to search the emails of Director Steve Maris and Deputy Chief Sabih Khan using the same keywords and time frame relating to the removal of CPD Arrests API access."

However, that night, I sent an email clarifying that I was NOT willing to narrow the request, and was simply providing a suggestion. I'm not sure why this wasn't understood with this response, considering your office has had two weeks to review the email, and it's especially unclear why my email wasn't reviewed prior to your office providing its response today, which echoes your agency's lack of care for this request since the day of this request's submission. What was once just an exhausting request is looking more and more like an intentional attempt to skirt both the spirit and the letter of the law through choosing an incorrect interpretation of a discussion of how to proceed with this request.

Please re-review the request, my response, and please continue the search for records, as this request is by no means done.

Thank you, and regards,
Matt Chapman