January 2017 Email Metadata (Information Technology, North Dakota)

To Whom It May Concern:

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

For all accounts managed by your department, please provide me the following information for all emails sent during January, 2017:

1. From address
2. To address
3. bcc addresses
4. cc addresses
5. Time
6. Date

Please note that I am not requesting the contents of each email.

I am more than happy to provide documentation or tips for extracting this information from your mail server if needed. Documentation that I have available include methods using excel, powershell, msaccess, Office 365 eDiscovery tools, and the direct extraction from an exchange database using forensic analysis 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 look forward to receiving your response to this request within 10 business days.

Sincerely,

Matt Chapman

Thank you for your email.

My request would include (but not limited to) all Fargo employees and contractors who have an email account in Fargo.

Please bear in mind when handling my request that there are many technical ways to handle this request. I kindly ask that you consider these before any cost estimations are made.

Thank you -
Matt Chapman
Free Our Info, NFP