Request for death records

Dear Kyra Senese:

This email is to confirm receipt of your public records request. If this request requires extensive use of resources, this office will contact you again once an estimate of the costs associated with producing the records you seek is prepared. The tracking number associated with your request is in the subject line of this email. If you have any questions, please let me know. Your request was received in this office on 10/29/2020 and given the reference number P064668-102920 for tracking purposes.
Records Requested: Department of Health
SL Office
4052 Bald Cypress Way
Tallahassee, FL 32399-1702
October 28, 2020
To whom it may concern:
This is a request pursuant to the Florida Sunshine Law. We are requesting all available Collier County death records dating Aug. 14, 2020, to the date this request is ultimately fulfilled, with the following information, if available, for each case:
- decedent name
- case number
- decedent name
- date of death
- location of death
- race
- ethnicity
- age
- gender
- occupation/industry
- whether injury/infection occurred at work
- incident location (street address, city, state, ZIP where injury/infection occurred)
- incident date
- decedent residence (street address, city, state, ZIP)
- cause(s) of death, with complete MOD and COD fields
- contributing factors
- any other accessible, non-exempt information contained in electronic case records
This request is part of an ongoing collaboration involving the Brown Institute for Media Innovation, John S. Knight Journalism Fellowships at Stanford University, the MuckRock Foundation and partner newsrooms across the country. This request is part of a news-gathering process and is intended for educational, not commercial use.
We request expedited processing to the extent possible. This information is critical to the public’s understanding of the coronavirus pandemic and its local impact on public health. Let us know if we can help clarify this request in any way. Please also consider waiving any fees for producing the requested records.
Please provide the data in excel or csv spreadsheet format as an email attachment, if possible. Please feel free to reach me at 630-608-8844 or kas2317@columbia.edu.
Thank you in advance for your anticipated cooperation in this matter. We look forward to receiving your response to this request within 10 business days.
Sincerely,
Kyra Senese
Senior Research Assistant
Columbia University's Brown Institute for Media Innovation
You can monitor the progress of your request at the link below and you'll receive an email when your request has been completed.
Florida Department of Health

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Kyra:

There are no records responsive to your request. CHARTS does not contain this level of detail, nor do we have a report available such as this.
Data requests fall under F.S. 382.025 and this would be subject to that specific criteria.

Thank you,
DOH Communications

This link might provide you with some additional information.

https://open-fdoh.hub.arcgis.com/datasets/florida-covid19-case-line-data-11/data?where=Died%20%3D%20%27Yes%27

Thank you,
DOH Communications

Please try the following link: https://open-fdoh.hub.arcgis.com/

Type: COVID in the search bar

Select Florida Case Line Data

Select the Data tab

Click the icon next to Died in the column headings and then in the drop down menu select yes.

This will provide the public information that we have shared on every case.

Thank you,
DOH Communications