Call Back Unit: City Hall

March 7, 2017

Chaclyn Hunt

Via email at requests@muckrock.com<mailto:requests@muckrock.com>

Dear Ms. Hunt,

On behalf of the City of Chicago Department of Law, I am responding to your Freedom of Information Act (“FOIA”) which was dated February 25, 2017 and received in our offices on February 27, 2017. At this time, I am seeking an extension of five additional working days to respond to the request for one or more of the following reasons identified in 5 ILCS 140/3(e) of FOIA:

( ) the requested records are stored in whole or in part at other locations than the office having charge of the requested records;

( ) the request requires the collection of a substantial number of specified records;

( ) the request is couched in categorical terms and requires an extensive search for the records responsive to it;

( ) the requested records have not been located in the course of routine search and additional efforts are being made to locate them;

( ) the requested records require examination and evaluation by personnel having the necessary competence and discretion to determine if they are exempt from disclosure under Section 7 of the FOIA or should be revealed only with appropriate deletions;

( ) the request for records cannot be complied with by the public body within the time limits prescribed by 5 ILCS 140/3(d) without unduly burdening or interfering with the operations of the public body;

(xx) there is need for consultation, which shall be conducted with all practicable speed, with another public body or among two or more components of a public body having a substantial interest in the determination or in the subject matter of the request.

Sincerely,

[FOIASignature]

Chloe K. Rasmas

Freedom of Information Officer

March 9, 2017

Lucy Parson Labs
Via email at requests@muckrock.com

Dear Ms. Parson Labs,

On behalf of the City of Chicago Department of Law, I am responding to your second narrowed Freedom of Information Act (“FOIA”)request which was dated February 28, 2017 and received in our offices on the same date. At this time, I am seeking an extension of five additional working days to respond to the request for one or more of the following reasons identified in 5 ILCS 140/3(e) of FOIA:

( ) the requested records are stored in whole or in part at other locations than the office having charge of the requested records;

( ) the request requires the collection of a substantial number of specified records;

( ) the request is couched in categorical terms and requires an extensive search for the records responsive to it;

( ) the requested records have not been located in the course of routine search and additional efforts are being made to locate them;

( ) the requested records require examination and evaluation by personnel having the necessary competence and discretion to determine if they are exempt from disclosure under Section 7 of the FOIA or should be revealed only with appropriate deletions;

( ) the request for records cannot be complied with by the public body within the time limits prescribed by 5 ILCS 140/3(d) without unduly burdening or interfering with the operations of the public body;

(xx) there is need for consultation, which shall be conducted with all practicable speed, with another public body or among two or more components of a public body having a substantial interest in the determination or in the subject matter of the request.

Sincerely,

[FOIASignature]

Chloe K. Rasmas

Freedom of Information Officer

April 10, 2017

Via email at requests@muckrock.com<mailto:requests@muckrock.com>

Dear Requestor,

This letter is in response to your Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) request to the City of Chicago Law Department, which was dated March 1, 2017. Law Department sent the statutory request for a five-day extension on March 9, 2017. We are now timely responding. In your request, you state:

According to a memo between the City of Chicago's Legal Department and the US Department of Justice dated June 27th, 2016" titled "Re: Chicago Police Department Investigation pursuant to 42 U.S.C. § 14141 Fifth Document Request", the Department of Justice requested from the City:

"105. A list of all officers who are, or within the past five year have been, assigned to the 'Call-Back Unit' (Unit 376) because the office has been stripped of his or her police powers or is otherwise under criminal or administrative investigation. Please provide: 1) the name of the officer; 2) the date span the officer was in the call-back unity; and 3) the reason the officer ultimately left the Call-Back Unit (i.e. termination, resignation, restoration of police powers, or other)."

Pursuant to the Illinois Freedom of Information Act (5 ILCS 140/1 to 11), I hereby request the following records: any and all documents pursuant to the 'Call-Back Unit' including records sufficient to respond to 1,2,and 3 under section 105 of this memo.

Documents sufficient to show correspondence between the City and the DOJ sufficient to show that the City Law Department maintains no such records if the city claims so.

Please see attached. One employee number was redacted pursuant to Section 7(1)(b) of FOIA. 5 ILCS 140/7(1)(b) exempts from disclosure, “private information.” Private information is defined in Section 2(c-5) as, “…unique identifiers, including a person’s social security number, driver’s license number, employee identification number, biometric identifiers, personal financial information, passwords or other access codes, medical records, home or personal telephone numbers, and personal emails addresses. Private information also includes home address and personal license plates, except as otherwise provided by law or when compiled without possibility of attribution to any person.” 5 ILCS 140/2(c-5). Therefore employee numbers are exempt pursuant to Section 7(1)(b) and were properly redacted.

You have the right to have a denial reviewed by the Public Access Counselor (PAC) at the Office of the Illinois Attorney General, 500 S. 2nd Street, Springfield, Illinois 62706, (877) 299-3642. You also have the right to seek judicial review of your denial by filing a lawsuit in Cook County Circuit Court.

Sincerely,

[FOIASignature]

Chloe K. Rasmas

Freedom of Information Officer