EPD drone emails
| Tracking # |
18-829 |
| Submitted | Aug. 10, 2018 |
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From: William Pierce
To Whom It May Concern:
Pursuant to the Illinois Freedom of Information Act., I hereby request the following records:
All emails for the addresses reddington@cityofevanston.org and JParrott@cityofevanston.org between July 1, 2017 and August 10, 2018 that include any of the following search terms: "drone," "drones," "UAS," Unmanned Aerial System," or "UAV."
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,
William Pierce
Lucy Parsons Labs
From: Evanston Police Department
Department assignment for records request 18-829 has changed: Added: Information Technology (IT), Legal.
From: William Pierce
Clarification:
Please separately search both email accounts for the keywords in the provided date range. Thank you.
Best,
William Pierce
From: Evanston Police Department
Your are hereby notified that your Request for public records has been determined to be unduly burdensome pursuant to Section 3(g) of FOIA. The extraordinary volume of documents produced 1,328 emails (estimated to be over 500 pages and numerous staff hours and multiple staff members to fill the request is too burdensome on City resources to produce the request as drafted.
From: William Pierce
Hello,
Please narrow the request date range to July and August 2017.
WP
From: William Pierce
Please also include July and August 2018.
This narrows the request to July-August 2017, and July-August 2018.
Thank you.
From: Evanston Police Department
Evanston
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From: William Pierce
Hello,
Just writing to ask about the status of this request. When might it be fulfilled?
Thank you for your assistance.
Best,
William Pierce
Lucy Parsons Labs
From: Evanston Police Department
Evanston
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Hi there
A message was sent to you regarding record request #18-829:
Your are hereby notified that your Request for public records has been determined to be unduly burdensome pursuant to Section 3(g) of FOIA. The extraordinary volume of documents (estimated to be over 104 emails, 8550 pages) numerous staff hours and multiple staff members to fill the request is too burdensome on City resources to produce the request as drafted. Please consider narrowing the scope of your request by narrowing the timeline and/or search terms
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From: William Pierce
Can you please re-check the figure: 104 emails/8550 pages? That is an average of 85 pages per email.
From: Evanston Police Department
Evanston
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Hi there
A message was sent to you regarding record request #18-829:
This is an attachment heavy set of emails, including meeting packets.
Please narrow request in order to fulfill your request.
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From: William Pierce
Please provide the emails without attachments.
Thank you.
From: William Pierce
To clarify:
Please provide all emails matching the original search terms and addresses between July-August 2017 and July-August 2018.
Please include only the names of file attachments, not the contents.
Thank you.
From: Evanston Police Department
A copy of documents responsive to the request.
From: Evanston Police Department
Evanston
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Hi there
A document has been released to you for record request #18-829:
* 18-829-9-10-18.pdf
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From: Evanston Police Department
Evanston
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Hi there
Record request #18-829 has been closed.
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