Long Beach Police Department Citizen App Crime Reports - (CA)

Dear Greg Buhl:
Pursuant to California Government Code § 6253, staff will review your request and respond within 10 days to notify you if there are responsive records, or if an extension is necessary to determine if responsive records exist.

If your request was received after business hours or on a weekend or holiday, the next business day will be considered the date of receipt. The 10-day response period starts with the first calendar day after the date of receipt (Ca. Civ. Code, § 10.). You may be contacted by a staff member if there are questions regarding your request. NOTICE: Public records requests and transparency remain of utmost importance, and we are continuing to respond to requests under California Government Code guidelines.  However, you may experience delays in response times as we are focusing on handling high priority issues related to COVID-19 (Coronavirus). Pursuant to Government Code section 6253(c) there may be delays due to unusual circumstances.
Thank you for your interest in public records of the Long Beach Police Department. Your request has been received and will be processed in the order it was received. Your request was received in this office on 5/23/2021 and given the reference number P006656-052321 for tracking purposes.

Records Requested: "To LBPD,

Pursuant to the California Public Records Act I am requesting the following records:

-Any statistics, spreadsheets, or other reports maintained by the LBPD or easily generated by its crime reporting and/or statistics programs sufficient to show the number of crime reports and the nature of the crimes reported to the LBPD through the Citizen App.

The Citizen app has been active in Los Angeles County, including offering private security response to it paid subscribers and acting as a go-between for their users for departments in the region.

https://www.vice.com/en/article/v7evbx/citizen-app-private-security-leaked-emails

Thank you in advance for your anticipated cooperation in this matter in the time frame set out in the CPRA.

Greg Buhl

Lead Researcher at CheckLBPD.org

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You can monitor the progress of your request at the link below and you'll receive an email when your request has been completed. Again, thank you for using the Long Beach Police Department Request Center.

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Dear Greg Buhl, Thank you for submitting your request for public records.Occasionally, we experience a delay in searching for records. Consequently,pursuant to Government Code section 6253 (c), the City of Long Beach isextending the time within which to identify responsive documents by fourteen(14) calendar days. Thank you.

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Dear Mr. Buhl,
There are no responsive records to this request.
Thank you.