E-correspondence regarding homeless laws, ordinances and policies

The Department is processing your request in the order it was received. It is anticipated to be completed in researching your request by June 30, 2014.

Anita Carter
Discovery Unit
Legal Affairs Division
Los Angeles Police Department

I have received your California Public Records Act request for Los
Angeles Police Department (the Department) records pertaining to
homeless individuals.

Please be advised that, pursuant to Government Code Section 6253(c), I
have found that “unusual circumstances” exist with respect to the
request due to the need to search for, collect, and review the requested
records from other Department entities which are separate from the
office processing the request. Therefore, my staff will require the
additional fourteen days+ extension of time in which to respond. A
determination concerning your request will be made as soon as possible.

Anita Carter
Discovery Unit
Legal Affairs Division
Los Angeles Police Department

>>> Aaron Cantú<requests@muckrock.com> 8/5/2014 2:00 AM
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August 5, 2014
Los Angeles Police Department
LAPD, R&I Division
ATTN: Watch Commander
100 West 1st Street, Room P1-137
Los Angeles, CA 90012

This is a follow up to a previous request:

To Whom It May Concern:

I wanted to follow up on the following Freedom of Information request,
copied below, and originally submitted on May 14, 2014. Please let me
know when I can expect to receive a response, or if further
clarification is needed.

Thank you for your help.

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On July 21, 2014:

To Whom It May Concern:

I wanted to follow up on the following Freedom of Information request,
copied below, and originally submitted on May 14, 2014. Please let me
know when I can expect to receive a response, or if further
clarification is needed.

Thank you for your help.

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On July 4, 2014:

To Whom It May Concern:

I wanted to follow up on the following Freedom of Information request,
copied below, and originally submitted on May 14, 2014. I was informed
on June 24 by Anita Carter of the Discovery Unit that my request was
anticipated to have been processed by June 30, 2014.

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:

Pursuant to the California's Sunshine Amendment (Cal. Const. Art. I, §
3(b)), I hereby request the following records:

All electronic correspondence between the LAPD (particularly Police
Chief Charlie Beck) and members of the Central City Association of Los
Angeles regarding laws, ordinances and enforcement policies that affect
the homeless living in the city.

I also request that, if appropriate, fees be waived as I believe this
request is in the public interest. The requested documents will be made
available to the general public free of charge as part of the public
information service at MuckRock.com, processed by a representative of
the news media/press and is made in the process of news gathering and
not for commercial usage.

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 10
calendar days, as the statute requires.

Sincerely,

Aaron Cantú

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On June 24, 2014:

The Department is processing your request in the order it was received.
It is anticipated to be completed in researching your request by June
30, 2014.

Anita Carter
Discovery Unit
Legal Affairs Division
Los Angeles Police Department

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On June 20, 2014:

To Whom It May Concern:

I wanted to follow up on the following Freedom of Information request,
copied below, and originally submitted on May 14, 2014. Please let me
know when I can expect to receive a response, or if further
clarification is needed.

Thank you for your help.

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On June 5, 2014:

To Whom It May Concern:

I wanted to follow up on the following Freedom of Information reques
t,
copied below, and originally submitted on May 14, 2014. Please let me
know when I can expect to receive a response, or if further
clarification is needed.

Thank you for your help.

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On May 21, 2014:

To Whom it May Concern:

This is a clarifying follow up message to my original public records
request filed on May 14, 2014. The following qualifiers should ease your
search process.

1. The original request will apply to all relevant email correspondence
from January 2012 to the present (May 2014).

2. It may help to use certain key words to search through emails. Here
is a sampling of words and phrases that could be used:

Homelessness
Homeless people
Homeless
Eliminate homelessness
End homelessness
Skid row
L.A., Cal., Ordinance 137,269
Section 41.18(d)
Safer Cities Initiative
Los Angeles 2020 Commission Homeless
Downtown 2020: Roadmap to L.A.'s Urban Future Homelessness
Broken windows homeless
Quality of life crimes homeless
Panhandlers
Panhandling/Soliciting
Transients
Transient behaviors
Vagrants
Winos
Drunks
Crack addicts
Lowlifes
Sheltered
Unsheltered
Self-sufficiency
Hand-up, not a hand out
Hand out
Hand-up
Clean up
Problem areas
Complaints homeless
The needy
Dirty homeless
Grimy homeless
Homeless veterans
Public urination
Public defecation
Tent homeless
Tent city
Sleeping on bench
Sleeping on sidewalk
Loitering homeless
Scavenging homeless
Vehicle homeless
Mental health homeless
Patrol homeless
Business homeless
Revenue homeless
Police homeless
Shelter homeless

The above list is not meant to exclude any other related search terms
that may come to one's mind. Also, most permutations of the above
words/phrases will likely be useful (for example, searching "homeless +
trespassing").

Thank you very much. If you'd like to speak further, you can call me at
956-212-2417.

Have a great day,
Aaron

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On May 14, 2014:

To Whom It May Concern:

Pursuant to the California's Sunshine Amendment (Cal. Const. Art. I, §
3(b)), I hereby request the following records:

All electronic correspondence between the LAPD (particularly Police
Chief Charlie Beck) and members of the Central City Association of Los
Angeles regarding laws, ordinances and enforcement policies that affect
the homeless living in the city.

I also request that, if appropriate, fees be waived as I believe this
request is in the public interest. The requested documents will be made
available to the general public free of charge as part of the public
information service at MuckRock.com, processed by a representative of
the news media/press and is made in the process of news gathering and
not for commercial usage.

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 10
calendar days, as the statute requires.

Sincerely,

Aaron Cantú

Filed via MuckRock.com
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MuckRock News
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requests might be returned by the USPS as undeliverable.

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