Mobile Phone Forensic Tools (Cincinnati Police Department)
| Submitted | April 10, 2017 |
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From: Curtis Waltman
To Whom It May Concern:
Pursuant to the Ohio Open Records Law, I hereby request the following records:
The following request is in regards to mobile phone forensics tools such as devices made by the company Cellebrite, IP Box made by MDSec, Secure View by Susteen Inc., Kessler Innovations products, Binary Intelligence products or analysis programs such as those produced by COMPELSON Labs or the XRY software by MSAB.
-Contractual documents. Examples of this are invoices, purchases orders, contracts, loan agreements, procurement documents etc.
-Records of communication with the domains CellebriteUSA.com, investigation.com, or mdsec.net from either the chief of police or head of procurement.
-guidelines and/or internal policy on the use of mobile phone forensics tools and software
-Any utilization logs for these tools
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 would request your response within ten (10) business days.
Sincerely,
Curtis Waltman
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To Whom It May Concern:
I wanted to follow up on the following Freedom of Information request, copied below, and originally submitted on April 10, 2017. Please let me know when I can expect to receive a response, or if further clarification is needed.
Thanks for your help, and let me know if further clarification is needed.
From: CPDRecords
Mr. Waltman,
Thank you for your public record request. Attached are the communication records that you requested. In addition, we do not keep logs for equipment “Utilization” logs and we do not have a Standard Operating Procedure( SOP) for downloading cellphones or as stated, “guidelines and/or internal policy on the use of mobile phone forensic tools and software”.
Respectfully,
Cincinnati Police Records
April 10, 2017
Cincinnati Police Department
Lt. Christopher Matzen
Cincinnati Police Department Records
801 Plum Street
Room 328
Cincinnati, OH 45202
To Whom It May Concern:
Pursuant to the Ohio Open Records Law, I hereby request the following records:
The following request is in regards to mobile phone forensics tools such as devices made by the company Cellebrite, IP Box made by MDSec, Secure View by Susteen Inc., Kessler Innovations products, Binary Intelligence products or analysis programs such as those produced by COMPELSON Labs or the XRY software by MSAB.
-Contractual documents. Examples of this are invoices, purchases orders, contracts, loan agreements, procurement documents etc.
-Records of communication with the domains CellebriteUSA.com, investigation.com, or mdsec.net from either the chief of police or head of procurement.
-guidelines and/or internal policy on the use of mobile phone forensics tools and software
-Any utilization logs for these tools
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 would request your response within ten (10) business days.
Sincerely,
Curtis Waltman
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From: CPDRecords
Mr. Waltman,
Attached are additional records (purchase orders, billing) that we received pertaining to your records request.
Respectfully,
Cincinnati Police Records
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