Hollywood, FL PD Citizen Complaints
| Submitted | Aug. 4, 2017 |
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From: Alexander Cartwright and Jennifer Dirmeyer
To Whom It May Concern:
Pursuant to Florida's Sunshine Law (Fla. Stat. secs. 119.01 to 119.15 (1995)), I hereby request the following records:
We are Economics Professors in the College of Business at Ferris State University, and are engaged in an empirical research project on police behavior and citizen complaints. This project requires us to request data from your department. If you have questions about this request or suggestions, we would be happy to discuss them with you.
1. What is the total number of citizen complaints (allegations of misconduct) made against your department’s officers annually for the last 10 years? If your department logs complaints in a database, spreadsheet, or other log, a copy of those logs is fine instead.
Please include the type of complaint (i.e., use of force, abuse language, unwarranted search) and the result of complaint (i.e., sustained, exonerated).
2. What is the total number of complaints police officers made against their peer officers in department annually for the last 10 years? If your department logs complaints in a database, spreadsheet, or other log, a copy of those logs is fine instead.
Please include the type of complaint (i.e., use of force, abuse language, unwarranted search) and the result of complaint (i.e., sustained, exonerated).
3. What is the total number of calls for service your department received annually for the past 10 years? If your department logs calls for service in a database, spreadsheet, or other log, a copy of those logs is fine instead.
4. What is the annual number of officers involved in shootings in your department for the past 10 years? Any documentation or reports that detail the annual number of officer-involved shootings in your department for the past 10 years would be sufficient.
Please include documentation regarding how many of these officer-involved shootings involved disciplinary action. (Please list officer firearm discharge directed at a person separately from a shooting involving an animal and separately from accidental firearm discharges).
Please include the number of officer-involved shootings resulting in discipline.
5. Which of the above data are published publicly? Please provide a link to any and all publicly available reports containing the data above.
Collecting this information is very important to our research, so we would like to emphasize, if you have questions about my request or suggestions, we would be happy to discuss them with you.
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,
Alexander Cartwright and Jennifer Dirmeyer
From: MuckRock.com
To Whom It May Concern:
I wanted to follow up on the following Freedom of Information request, copied below, and originally submitted on Aug. 4, 2017. Please let me know when I can expect to receive a response, or if further clarification is needed.
Thanks for your help, and let me know if further clarification is needed.
From: MuckRock.com
To Whom It May Concern:
I wanted to follow up on the following Freedom of Information request, copied below, and originally submitted on Aug. 4, 2017. Please let me know when I can expect to receive a response, or if further clarification is needed.
Thanks for your help, and let me know if further clarification is needed.
From: Sharetta Ogden
We received a fax of a public records request that you emailed. The quality is poor and hard to read. You are welcome to resend your request to me and I will review it and advise. Because of the impending hurricane emergency, our office will be closed until further notice.
Sharetta Ogden
Police Records Manager
3250 Hollywood Boulevard
Hollywood, FL 33021
954-967-4480 - Office
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This communication is intended for the named recipient(s) and may contain information that is (i) proprietary to the sender, and/or, (ii) privileged, confidential and otherwise exempt from disclosure under applicable Florida and federal law. Receipt by anyone other than the named recipient(s) is not a waiver of any applicable privilege. Any unauthorized review, use, disclosure or distribution is prohibited. If you are not the intended recipient, please contact the sender by replying to this e-mail and delete all copies of the original message.
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Sharetta Ogden
Records Manager Police
City of Hollywood
Police Department
3250 Hollywood Blvd
P.O. Box 229045
Hollywood, FL 33022-9045
Office: 954-967-4484
E-mail: SOGDEN@hollywoodfl.org
[www.hollywoodfl.org]
Notice: Florida has a broad public records law. All correspondence sent to the City of Hollywood via e-mail may be subject to disclosure as a matter of public record.
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From: Alexander Cartwright and Jennifer Dirmeyer
To Whom It May Concern:
Pursuant to Florida's Sunshine Law (Fla. Stat. secs. 119.01 to 119.15 (1995)), I hereby request the following records:
We are Economics Professors in the College of Business at Ferris State University, and are engaged in an empirical research project on police behavior and citizen complaints. This project requires us to request data from your department. If you have questions about this request or suggestions, we would be happy to discuss them with you.
1. What is the total number of citizen complaints (allegations of misconduct) made against your department’s officers annually for the last 10 years? If your department logs complaints in a database, spreadsheet, or other log, a copy of those logs is fine instead.
Please include the type of complaint (i.e., use of force, abuse language, unwarranted search) and the result of complaint (i.e., sustained, exonerated).
2. What is the total number of complaints police officers made against their peer officers in department annually for the last 10 years? If your department logs complaints in a database, spreadsheet, or other log, a copy of those logs is fine instead.
Please include the type of complaint (i.e., use of force, abuse language, unwarranted search) and the result of complaint (i.e., sustained, exonerated).
3. What is the total number of calls for service your department received annually for the past 10 years? If your department logs calls for service in a database, spreadsheet, or other log, a copy of those logs is fine instead.
4. What is the annual number of officers involved in shootings in your department for the past 10 years? Any documentation or reports that detail the annual number of officer-involved shootings in your department for the past 10 years would be sufficient.
Please include documentation regarding how many of these officer-involved shootings involved disciplinary action. (Please list officer firearm discharge directed at a person separately from a shooting involving an animal and separately from accidental firearm discharges).
Please include the number of officer-involved shootings resulting in discipline.
5. Which of the above data are published publicly? Please provide a link to any and all publicly available reports containing the data above.
Collecting this information is very important to our research, so we would like to emphasize, if you have questions about my request or suggestions, we would be happy to discuss them with you.
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,
Alexander Cartwright and Jennifer Dirmeyer
From: Sharetta Ogden
Hello,
The estimate for the items being requested is $198.82. If you are interested in continuing with this request, please provide us with a check or money order for the estimated amount. Once the check is received we will begin to process your request. Upon completion you will be notified if any additional monies are required, otherwise the requested items will be mailed to you. In addition to the check, please provide us with a self-addressed pre-paid envelope to mail your request back to you.
If you have any questions, please let me know.
Thank you,
Sharetta Ogden
Police Records Manager
3250 Hollywood Boulevard
Hollywood, FL 33021
954-967-4480 – Office
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This communication is intended for the named recipient(s) and may contain information that is (i) proprietary to the sender, and/or, (ii) privileged, confidential and otherwise exempt from disclosure under applicable Florida and federal law. Receipt by anyone other than the named recipient(s) is not a waiver of any applicable privilege. Any unauthorized review, use, disclosure or distribution is prohibited. If you are not the intended recipient, please contact the sender by replying to this e-mail and delete all copies of the original message.
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From: Alexander Cartwright and Jennifer Dirmeyer
Hello,
Thank you for the cost estimate. We are working with a limited budget for this project. In an effort to reduce the costs, I would like to amend this request such that #1 and #2 are only for the total number of complaints, per year, for the last ten years and you omit all information on the outcome & circumstances. Would this reduce the collection costs?
Respectfully, -Alex Cartwright
From: Sharetta Ogden
Mr. Cartwright,
Per your revised request, the new amount due for this request is $14.43 for items #1,2, 4 and $56.52 for item #3 for a total of $70.95. As for item #5 we do not have a link wherein the requested items are published publicly. Please provide us with a check or money order for the amount due. Once received we will release the requested documentation. If you have any questions, please let me know.
Thank you,
Sharetta Ogden
Police Records Manager
3250 Hollywood Boulevard
Hollywood, FL 33021
954-967-4484 – Office
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This communication is intended for the named recipient(s) and may contain information that is (i) proprietary to the sender, and/or, (ii) privileged, confidential and otherwise exempt from disclosure under applicable Florida and federal law. Receipt by anyone other than the named recipient(s) is not a waiver of any applicable privilege. Any unauthorized review, use, disclosure or distribution is prohibited. If you are not the intended recipient, please contact the sender by replying to this e-mail and delete all copies of the original message.
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From: Alexander Cartwright and Jennifer Dirmeyer
To Whom It May Concern:
Please find enclosed a check for $70.95 to satisfy the fee associated with the attached public records request.
Thank you.
From: Hollywood Police Department
Mr. Cartwright,
Your check for $70.95 was received. Attached is the information you requested. This satisfies your reduced request for items #1,2, 4 and 3.
Kind regards,
Sharetta Ogden
Police Records Manager
3250 Hollywood Boulevard
Hollywood, FL 33021
954-967-4480 – Office
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This communication is intended for the named recipient(s) and may contain information that is (i) proprietary to the sender, and/or, (ii) privileged, confidential and otherwise exempt from disclosure under applicable Florida and federal law. Receipt by anyone other than the named recipient(s) is not a waiver of any applicable privilege. Any unauthorized review, use, disclosure or distribution is prohibited. If you are not the intended recipient, please contact the sender by replying to this e-mail and delete all copies of the original message.
From: Alexander Cartwright and Jennifer Dirmeyer
I am writing to follow up on my original request made on 8/4/17.
Thank you very much for providing the information we requested. I am writing to ask for some clarification regarding the data on officer-involved shootings. We requested the total number of annual officer involved shootings each year for the past 10 years.
The complaint data that you provided is not usable since it is not in the format we requested. We need to know OIS on an annual basis – for example OIS in 2013, 2012, etc., for the previous 10 years. You provided us with the total number of OIS for the past 10 years. Sorry for any miscommunication on my end.
While you sent us data on officer complaints, the OIS data seems to have been overlooked. Could you please provide that data? If not, could you please clarify that your department does not collect OIS (officer involved shooting) data.
If you are able to provide the data, please define what constitutes an officer-involved shooting in your department. For example, some departments do not count misses while others count all discharges; some include shots at animals. Other departments include intentional and accidental shootings; others do not. Please explain to us how your department classifies the OIS included in the numbers you sent to us.
Respectfully,
-Alex Cartwright
From: Hollywood Police Department
Mr. Cartwright,
In reviewing your latest email against the items provided in the attached, a list was given of the COMPLAINTS for each year from 2007 to 2017; another list was given of the number of FIREARM DISCHARGES (OIS) for each year from 2007 to 2017. So you were not only given the total for each year but you were also given the total for all ten years as well.
While I did not compile the data, as I am not the keeper of those records, it appears the department did provide you with what you requested. As a reminder you asked us to alter your request on September 22, 2017 based on costs which we complied with.
September 22, 2017
Hollywood Police Department
Hollywood Police Department
3250 Hollywood Boulevard
Hollywood, FL 33021
This is a follow up to a previous request:
Hello,
Thank you for the cost estimate. We are working with a limited budget for this project. In an effort to reduce the costs, I would like to amend this request such that #1 and #2 are only for the total number of complaints, per year, for the last ten years and you omit all information on the outcome & circumstances. Would this reduce the collection costs?
Respectfully, -Alex Cartwright
Sharetta Ogden
Police Records Manager
3250 Hollywood Boulevard
Hollywood, FL 33021
954-967-4480 – Office
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This communication is intended for the named recipient(s) and may contain information that is (i) proprietary to the sender, and/or, (ii) privileged, confidential and otherwise exempt from disclosure under applicable Florida and federal law. Receipt by anyone other than the named recipient(s) is not a waiver of any applicable privilege. Any unauthorized review, use, disclosure or distribution is prohibited. If you are not the intended recipient, please contact the sender by replying to this e-mail and delete all copies of the original message.
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From: Alexander Cartwright and Jennifer Dirmeyer
Thank you. I guess that first attachment didn't download properly. I now see the data you describe.
I am writing to ask for some clarification regarding the data on officer-involved shootings you provided us with. What constitutes an officer-involved shooting in your department? For example, some departments do not count misses while others count all discharges; some include shots at animals. Other departments include intentional and accidental shootings; others do not. Some include all discharges and some exclude missed shots. Please explain to us how your department classifies the OIS included in the numbers you sent to us.
Very Respectfully, Alex Cartwright
From: Hollywood Police Department
Mr. Cartwright,
Here is the response I received regarding your inquiry:
The Information that was provided to the requestor included: Officer Involved Shootings-Animal Shootings-Accidental Discharges-Missed Shots-Intentionally-Unintentionally Shots. The Staff Inspections Unit can provide to the requestor with the policy which outlines what constitutes this agency’s policy of an officer involved shooting.
Kind Regards,
Sharetta Ogden
From: Alexander Cartwright and Jennifer Dirmeyer
Hi,
Thanks so much for your help with this request! I really appreciate it.
Sincerely,
Alexander Cartwright and Jennifer Dirmeyer
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