Green Bay PD: Crime analysis

To Whom It May Concern:

Pursuant to Wisconsin's Open Records act, I hereby request the following records:

Emails sent from and received by the email address of Michelle Belongie, Crime Analyst, Green Bay Police Department: “MichelleAr@greenbaywi.gov”.

Please limit your search to emails sent and received by Armstrong between the following dates: March 2, 2016 and March 31, 2016.

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 would request your response within ten (10) business days.

Sincerely,

Dell Cameron

To Whom It May Concern:

This letter is to inform the Green Bay Police Department (hereafter “GBPD”) that I am appealing your request to receive a completed “FEDERAL DRIVER PRIVACY PROTECTION ACT PERMISSIBLE USES FORM” prior to processing my records request pursuant to Wisconsin's Open Records Act.

The specific records I have requested are emails sent/received by a GBPD employee to/from an external mailing list which is run by the International Association of Crime Analysts (IACA), a private organization with members in 42 countries, including Canada, Australia, and the United Kingdom.

I have not requested access to any Police Reports, Accident Reports, or any records which should contain personally identifiable information (“PPI”).

If GBPD redacts information included in these emails based on exemptions meant to protect PPI, those redactions would indicate, ipso facto, that a GBPD employee transmitted the PPI of U.S. citizens overseas, perhaps unlawfully, to members of the IACA mailing list, which includes agents of foreign law enforcement and intelligence agencies.

If such redactions are present in responsive documents I receive from GBPD, I will be required to report this ethical—and potentially legal—breach of the public trust to proper authorities, including (but not limited to) the Wisconsin Department of Justice and the Wisconsin Office of the Attorney General.

Regards,

It may be the case that multiple GBPD employees received messages from the IACA mailing list. To ease your workload, please feel free to exclude duplicate documents.

For additional note: I have had this request filled by two other U.S. law enforcement agencies already (without any redactions being deemed necessary). If the responsive documents exceed 5,000 emails, and you suspect this will have an significant impact on your department's ability to process public records requests, I would be happy to provide a keyword list to help narrow the number of emails you have to review.

Sorry, there was a typo in my first request. The name "Armstrong" should not have been in my letter. It should have said "Arneson."

Michelle Belongie is formally Michelle Arneson.

Another point of confusion: When I received your initial letter yesterday, I thought it was concerning a FOIA request that involved emails sent to/from the IACA mailing list only. That's not the case.

To clarify: Mrs. Belongie sent an email to the IACA mailing list on March 2, 2016, requesting information about the IBM i2 Analyst's Notebook. (" Does anyone know of competitors for I2? Features I like most include social networks, bringing into social media info, phone dumps, timelines.") The specific emails I am looking for are the responses to Mrs. Belongie's inquiry, which was made over the IACA mailing list, but may have been sent to her directly from other law enforcement professionals.

I estimate that Mrs. Belongie would have received these responses, if any, between March 2 and March 31.

Given that I am requesting copies of emails that were not transmitted internationally over the IACA mailing list, my previous letter concerning redactions may no longer be appropriate. Therefore, if your legal team would like me to fill out the Driver's Privacy Act form, I will do so immediately.

Sorry for the confusion.

Regards,

Follow up:

To answer your final question, to ensure I receive every response sent to Mrs. Belongie, I requested all of her emails from that time period, since it's unclear if there is a keyword I could offer to help sort out the "i2" related emails from the rest of her work emails.

If it will expedite the process, however, I could probably come up with a keyword list that would be sufficient. If you think that would help, I'll send a list to you today.

Please advise.

Yes! I apologize. I didn't see your last message. I'll send you a list either today or by Monday, if that's okay.

Thanks for all your help.

Hi Jean.

Sorry for the wait. Below is a list of keywords you can use in your search.

1) Globlue
2) ARKHOS
3) “i2” or “i2 Analyze”
4) IBM
5) “Social Media"
6) Cellebrite
7) "phone" or "phone dumps" or "dumps"
8) TransUnion

Thanks for your help.

Thank you!

Thanks!

To Whom It May Concern:

Please find enclosed a check for $7.30 to satisfy the fee associated with the attached public records request.

Thank you.