swat- kentucky state police

To Whom It May Concern:

Pursuant to Kentucky Open Records Act, § 61.872 et seq., I hereby request the following records:

1. All incident reports or other records documenting each time your agency's S.W.A.T. team (sometimes called a police paramilitary unit) was deployed.

2. In the event such records are not kept, I request a list of the dates of deployment of the agency's S.W.A.T. team during this period.

3. In the event these records/dates are not available for the entire time period covering this request, I request you supply the above information for the period covering the present back to as long as such records/information are available.

This request is being made for academic, not commercial, purposes.

In the event that fees cannot be waived, 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 look forward to receiving your response to this request within 3 business days, as the statute requires.

Sincerely,

Jonathan Mummolo
Stanford University
Dept. of Political Science

To Whom It May Concern:

This is an addendum to the public records request I submitted on 6/16/2015, copied below. Please note that this public records request refers to the time period 1995 to present. If records during part of that time period are not available, I request that you fulfill my request for all available dates in that time period. Thank you.

Sincerely,

Jonathan Mummolo
Stanford University
Dept. of Political Science

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Original Request:

To Whom It May Concern:

Pursuant to Kentucky Open Records Act, § 61.872 et seq., I hereby request the following records:

1. All incident reports or other records documenting each time your agency's S.W.A.T. team (sometimes called a police paramilitary unit) was deployed.

2. In the event such records are not kept, I request a list of the dates of deployment of the agency's S.W.A.T. team during this period.

3. In the event these records/dates are not available for the entire time period covering this request, I request you supply the above information for the period covering the present back to as long as such records/information are available.

This request is being made for academic, not commercial, purposes.

In the event that fees cannot be waived, 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 look forward to receiving your response to this request within 3 business days, as the statute requires.

Sincerely,

Jonathan Mummolo
Stanford University
Dept. of Political Science

Hello,

Thank you for the prompt reply. I apologize for the omission of dates in my request. I am requesting records for the time period 1995 to the present. In the event responsive records are not available for that entire time period, I ask that my request be fulfilled for all available dates in that time frame.

Sincerely,

Jonathan Mummolo
Stanford University
Dept. of Political Science

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I am responding to the following message:

Dear Mr. Mummolo:

I am in receipt of your fax submitted yesterday requesting records related to the KSP Special Response Team (SRT), which is our agency's equivalent of a SWAT team. The request made multiple references to a timeframe; however, there was no timeframe listed in your request. Would you please clarify the time period for which you are seeking records?

Sincerely,
Emily M. Perkins
Legal Services Branch
Kentucky State Police
919 Versailles Road
Frankfort, KY 40601
(502) 782-1786 - Direct phone
(502) 573-1636 - Fax
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To Whom It May Concern:

I wanted to follow up on the following Freedom of Information request, copied below, and originally submitted on June 16, 2015. Please let me know when I can expect to receive a response, or if further clarification is needed.

Thank you for your help.

To Whom It May Concern:

Please find enclosed a check for $41.45 to satisfy the fee associated with the attached public records request.

Thank you.

To Whom It May Concern:

I wanted to follow up on the following Freedom of Information request, copied below, and originally submitted on June 16, 2015. Please let me know when I can expect to receive a response, or if further clarification is needed. You had assigned it reference number #15-0873.

Thanks for your help, and let me know if further clarification is needed.