Reports filed by Ferguson Police Officer Darren Wilson in August 2014

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The City has received your Sunshine Law request dated September 20, 2014. Please forward any additional records requests to me at measikainen@fergusoncity.com

Please be advised that due to the scope and nature of the request, the fact that records are kept in different locations and in different buildings and the limited resources of the City at this particular time, it will take longer than three (3) days to research the records that may be responsive to the request, retrieve and gather those records, determine if the record contains any closed or confidential information, redact any closed or confidential information and either scan or copy the records.

Based on initial review of the request and without knowing the extent of the documents that may be responsive to the request, I estimate that the earliest date that such documents may be retrieved is October 3, 2014.

Thank you,

Megan Asikainen
City Clerk
City of Ferguson, Missouri
110 Church Street
Ferguson, MO 63135
(314) 524-5152 Phone
(314) 524-5173 Fax
measikainen@fergusoncity.com

I have attached to this email an incident log showing all calls for service during the time period you requested. Officer Darren Wilson is identified on the logs as 609. It may help narrow the scope of your request if you would like to look at this log and identify which reports you would like to receive copies of. If you would like all of the reports for the requested time period, I can still process your request accordingly, however, we would require a deposit of $100 before proceeding with the work.

There is a tremendous amount of work involved with each report. First, each report must be retrieved and redacted of simple information such as social security numbers. Then, each subject, arrestee, or defendant mentioned in the report must be researched; in the event that such subject, arrestee, or defendant was placed on SIS probation or if the case was dismissed, then much of that record will be closed. In addition, each offense or event described in the reports must be researched; in the event the report is part of an active investigation, then portions of the report may be a closed record. The City Attorney's assistance is required with regard to determining the extent to which certain information should be redacted.

Phil,

I am assisting in responding to Sunshine Law requests while the Custodian of Records is out of the office.

I have researched the events log for the time period of August 1, 2014, through August 9, 2014 (which is the last day that Officer Darren Wilson worked).

I found 30 separate events during that time period which involved Officer Darren Wilson.

I have researched 17 of those events so far.

Out of the 17 events that I researched, ten events were of a such a nature as not to require a written report and, therefore, there is no written report associated with those events.

I retrieved seven reports for the remainder of the 17 events that I researched.

I redacted social security numbers from those reports.

The total time that it has taken for the research, retrieval, and redaction so far is 1 hour and 55 minutes. The total cost for the seven reports retrieved so far is $26.45.

Payment is required before receipt of the records. Please submit your payment in the form of cash, money order or cashiers check the Finance Office, 110 Church Street, Ferguson, Missouri 63135. Please reference the email address with your payment to ensure proper credit of the payment.

Once payment is received, the City will send the seven reports retrieved so far to the above email address.

Also, once payment is received, I will research the remaining 13 events to determine if written reports are associated with those 13 events. When that work is completed, payment for that additional work will be required at the time of completion.

See attached.