City e-scooter policies, data sharing agreements, applications, impound logs (Cincinnati City Manager)

Good afternoon,

The Department of Transportation and Engineering has compiled documents, responsive to your public records request received by our office on January 29, 2019, regarding the operation of electric scooters (e-scooters) in the City of Cincinnati. These documents are attached for your convenience. Also, please note comments to your bullet points contained in your original email attached below.
Since these documents were available in an electronic format, no charge will be assessed.

If our department can be of further assistance, please do not hesitate to contact us.

Respectfully,

Shelley Stumpf
Public Records Custodian
Department of Transportation and Engineering
City of Cincinnati
801 Plum Street, Suite 450
Cincinnati, Ohio 45202
(513) 352-2366

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To Whom It May Concern:

Pursuant to the Ohio Open Records Law, I hereby request the following records:

The following documents relating to the operation of electric scooter (e-scooter) sharing systems within your city:

- copies of regulations, policies, or ordinances governing the operation of e-scooters and/or e-scooter shares within city limits, on a permanent or pilot basis. The "Interim Guidelines" is our City policy requiring a signed agreement prior to operating a scooter business in the City, and the "e-scooter ordinance" governs the operation of scooters.
- applications or requests by electronic scooter companies to operate within city limits, including all attachments, submitted between January 1st, 2017 and the date this request is fulfilled. We do not have a formal application process yet. The two existing requests to operate were received via telephone.
- data sharing agreements between the city and any past or present e-scooter operators in effect between January 1, 2017 and the date this request is fulfilled. Two "Interim Agreements" are attached which include data-sharing requirements.
- impound lists, logs, or registers of electric scooters impounded by the city. Does not exist.

Dockless e-scooter shares are operated by a variety of private companies, including but not limited to Bird Rides Inc., Neutron Holdings Inc. dba Lime (formerly LimeBike), Spin, Scoot, Ofo, Razor, Hopr (formerly CycleHop), USSCooter, JUMP (a subsidiary of Uber), Lyft, GOAT, and Ridecell.

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,

Lucas Smolcic Larson

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