CVE UIC

August 3, 2018

Via electronic mail
Mr. William Pierce
Lucy Parsons Labs
requests@muckrock.com<mailto:requests@muckrock.com>

Re: FOIA Request 18-631

Dear Mr. Pierce:

I am responding to your request dated August 3, 2018 under the Illinois Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) in which you requested:

"-All memos, reports, contracts, slides, memoranda of understanding (MOU), and other documents related to collaboration with the Department of Homeland Security on the Countering Violent Extremism (CVE) program(s);
- All emails between UIC employees and the DHS regarding CVE

Because your request does not identify a timeframe, a specific department, or employees, this office cannot produce the records by the deadline imposed by FOIA. As a result, the University has determined that compliance with your request is unduly burdensome under section 3(g) of FOIA (5 ILCS 140/3(g)) and that the University's burden to process this request outweighs the public interest.

Pursuant to Section 3(g) of the Act, we would like to extend to you an opportunity to modify your request to make it more manageable. Specifically we request that you identify a date range, any possible senders or receivers of such correspondence and narrow the type of document you are seeking. These changes will help narrow your request to more manageable. I encourage you to contact Assistant FOIA Director Matt Rogina from my office at the phone number below to further discuss ways to narrow your request. If you do not reduce the request, it shall be treated as a denial.

You have a right, under the law, to seek a review of this response by the Public Access Counselor (PAC) in the Office of the Attorney General. The PAC may be reached by phone at 877-299-3642, by email to publicaccess@atg.state.il.us, or by postal mail at the Public Access Bureau, 500 S. 2nd Street, Springfield, Illinois 62706. You also have the right to seek judicial review under section 11 of this Act.

If you have any questions, or would like to discuss how to narrow the scope of your request, please contact me at 217-333-6400.

Sincerely,

Thomas P. Hardy
Executive Director
and Chief Records Officer

Mr. Pierce,

We still need you to specify the department and the employees who would be in receipt or send such correspondence.

Matt Rogina

Associate Director, FOIA Administration

Office for University Relations

University of Illinois System

312-996-3661

217-333-6400 (voicemail)

mrogina@uillinois.edu

August 10, 2018

Via electronic mail
Mr. William Pierce
requests@muckrock.com<mailto:requests@muckrock.com>

Re: FOIA Request 18-632

Dear Mr. Pierce:

I am responding to your request dated and received in my office on August 3, 2018, under the Illinois Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) in which you requested documents and correspondence from the Department of Psychiatry.
I am writing to invoke an extension of the deadline for responding to the request under the following section(s) of the FOIA, which allow for additional time when:

* 140/(3)(e)(vi) the request for records cannot be complied with by the public body within the time limits prescribed by paragraph (c) of this Section without unduly burdening or interfering with the operations of the public body;

* 140/3(e)(vii) there is a need for consultation, which shall be conducted with all practicable speed, with another public body or among two or more components of a public body having a substantial interest in the determination or in the subject matter of the request.

I am taking the additional five days allowed by law to review information. The revised deadline will now be August 17, 2018.

Sincerely,

Thomas P. Hardy
Executive Director
And Chief Records Officer

August 17, 2018

Via electronic mail
Mr. William Pierce
requests@muckrock.com<mailto:requests@muckrock.com>

Re: FOIA Request 18-632

Dear Mr. Pierce:

I write to respond to your Freedom of Information request dated and received in my office on August 3, 2018, under the Illinois Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) in which you requested:
- All memos, reports, contracts, slides, memoranda of understanding (MOU), and other documents related to collaboration with the Department of Homeland Security on the Countering Violent Extremism (CVE) program(s);
- All emails between UIC employees and the DHS regarding CVE.
A search was conducted and there were no responsive emails. The University has not collaborated with the Department of Homeland Security on this matter. The University has been informed that the reports are publicly available at the below website:

www.start.umd.edu/people/stevan-weine<http://www.start.umd.edu/people/stevan-weine>
You have a right, under the law, to seek a review of this response by the Public Access Counselor (PAC) in the Office of the Attorney General. The PAC may be reached by phone at 877-299-3642, by email to publicaccess@atg.state.il.us, or by postal mail at the Public Access Bureau, 500 S. 2nd Street, Springfield, Illinois 62706. You also have the right to seek judicial review under section 11 of this Act.
If you have questions for our office, please contact 217-333-6400.

Sincerely,

Thomas P. Hardy
Executive Director
and Chief Records Officer