FDLE training materials re: protests and excited delirium

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Dear Mr. Ciaramella:

RE: Good-Faith Deposit Invoice: $204.27 - FDLE Docket No. PRR-2022-421
Request for any training or instructional materials, presentations, or slideshows concerning protests and crowd-control, and "excited delirium".

Please regard this as a good-faith deposit invoice for $204.27 for research, retrieval & review of your public records request. Based on the information you provided in your request, this will require extensive use of information technology resources, extensive clerical and/or extensive supervisory assistance. Costs are assessed pursuant to ss. 119.07(4)(a) and 119.07(4)(d), Florida Statutes (http://www.leg.state.fl.us/Statutes). This may not be the final amount due, but the best estimate of initial costs available at this time.

Labor Costs Already Expended Processing Request

Salary Rate

Position Title

Hours Expended

Labor Total

$43.33

CJPP CHIEF

0.50

$21.67 Waived

$19.14

OGC GOC II

0.50

$9.57

TOTAL BALANCE DUE FOR COSTS ALREADY INCURRED

$9.57

Estimated Initial Labor Costs for Request

Salary Rate

Position Title

Est. Hours

Est. Labor Total

$17.70

OGC GOC I

11.00

$194.70

Estimated Duplication & Postage Costs for Request

N/A

$0.00

TOTAL GOOD-FAITH DEPOSIT DUE

$204.27

A "policy of requiring an advance deposit seems prudent given the legislature's determination that taxpayers should not shoulder the entire expense of responding to an extensive request for public records." "[T]he reasonableness of a policy and its application - based on the facts in a particular case - guides whether an abuse of discretion is shown." Morris Publishing Group, LLC v. State, 154 So.3d 528, 534 (Fla. 1st DCA 2015).

After our office receives your good-faith deposit payment your public records request will return to the queue of records requests for processing. You may receive additional deposit invoices once the balance of the original deposit payment has been expended.

If you are no longer interested in receiving these records, please reply back to this email letting us know. Your request will be closed August 25, 2022 if we do not receive the balance due. You will not owe any money if you choose not to pay the deposit invoice and your request will be closed without further action.

Please remit a check or money order (we cannot accept credit or debit cards), in the amount of $204.27, with your docket number PRR-2022-421, to:

Florida Department of Law Enforcement
Office of the General Counsel
Attn: PRR-2022-421
P.O. Box 1489
Tallahassee, FL 32302

If you have questions concerning your request, please contact us at (850) 410-7676 or publicrecords@fdle.state.fl.us<mailto:publicrecords@fdle.state.fl.us>

An agency may refuse to produce additional records if the fees for a previous request for records have not been paid by the requestor. See Lozman v. City of Riviera Beach, 995 so. 2d 1027(Fla. 4th DCA 2008) (s. 119.07[4], F.S., "does not require the City to do any more than what it did in this case," i.e., require Lozman to pay the bill for the first group of records he requested before the city would make any further documents available). Cf. AGO 05-28 (custodian authorized to bill the requestor for any shortfall between the deposit and the actual cost of copying the public records when the copies have been made and the requesting party subsequently advises the city that the records are not needed). Please visit the Sunshine Manual, http://myfloridalegal.com/webfiles.nsf/WF/MNOS-B9QQ79/$file/SunshineManual.pdf.

Sincerely,

Office of General Counsel
Florida Department of Law Enforcement

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