Contracts and Emails with Grayshift (Las Vegas Metropolitan Police Department) • MuckRock

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From: Joseph Cox

03/13/2018

Subject: Nevada Public Records Act Request: Contracts and Emails with Grayshift (Las Vegas Metropolitan Police Department)

To Whom It May Concern:

Pursuant to the Nevada Public Records Act, I hereby request the following records:

### Background ###

Grayshift is a company providing law enforcement agencies with access to smartphones. A widely circulated media report on the company can be found here: https://www.forbes.com/sites/thomasbrewster/2018/03/05/apple-iphone-x-graykey-hack/#52fb6a432950

### Request ###

I hereby request the following records:

- All invoices, purchases orders, contracts, loan agreements, procurement documents (but not limited to solicitation documents or notices of proposed contracts, proposed bids, unsolicited proposals, and/or documents justifying contracting without full and open competition), relating to purchases of products from Grayshift.
- All email correspondence with Grayshift from 1st September 2016 to the present.
- All marketing material related to Grayshift from 1st September 2016 to the present.

In order to help to determine my status to assess fees, you should know that I am a journalist writing for Motherboard, VICE's science and technology site, and that this request is being made as part of news gathering.

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 look forward to receiving your response to this request within 5 business days, as the statute requires.

Sincerely,

Joseph Cox

From: Muckrock Staff

07/25/2019

Subject: RE: Nevada Public Records Act Request: Contracts and Emails with Grayshift (Las Vegas Metropolitan Police Department)

To Whom It May Concern:
I wanted to follow up on the following request, copied below. Please let me know when I can expect to receive a response.
Thanks for your help, and let me know if further clarification is needed.

From: Muckrock Staff

07/30/2019

Subject: RE: Nevada Public Records Act Request: Contracts and Emails with Grayshift (Las Vegas Metropolitan Police Department)

To Whom It May Concern:

I wanted to follow up on the following Nevada Public Records Act request, copied below, and originally submitted on March 13, 2018. Please let me know when I can expect to receive a response.

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

From: Muckrock Staff

08/14/2019

Subject: RE: Nevada Public Records Act Request: Contracts and Emails with Grayshift (Las Vegas Metropolitan Police Department)

To Whom It May Concern:

I wanted to follow up on the following Nevada Public Records Act request, copied below, and originally submitted on March 13, 2018. Please let me know when I can expect to receive a response.

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

From: Las Vegas Metropolitan Police Department

08/14/2019

Subject: FOIA#F190814-01- ORIGINAL REQUEST# 190313-07 (Contract and Email request with Grayshift)

Good afternoon,

We have no record of receiving. According to the email you provided to me concerning this request, it appears the requestor wants contracts and emails with Grayshift. This information is proprietary and confidential. The records concerning Grayshift is deemed confidential and privileged pursuant to law enforcement privilege and state and federal law. See, Donrey of Nevada, Inc. v. Bradshaw, 106 Nev. 630, 798 P.2d 144 (1990); 18 U.S.C. §2512; NRS 332.061 (Proprietary information is not public information and is confidential); NRS 333.020(5) (Proprietary information defined); NRS 600A.030(5)(Trade secret defined); 5 U.S.C. §522(b)(3),(b)(4),(b)(7)(C) and (7)(E). Therefore, there are no public records responsive to this request.

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