Persistent Surveillance Systems Invoices (Mesa County, CO Sheriff)

Public relations, community events and media inquiries should be directed to Megan Terlecky, as Heather Benjamin is no longer employed with the Mesa County Sheriff's Office.

The MCSO PIO office phone, cell and back-up cell remain the same.

DESK: (970) 244-3929
PIO CELL: (970) 986-0950
BACK-UP CELL: (970) 986-1240 **Megan's Email: Megan.Terlecky@mesacounty.us (mailto:Henry.Stoffel@mesacounty.us)
Please manually forward your correspondence to Megan Terlecky, as this account will not be monitored daily.
--
Heather S. Benjamin I Information & Communication Manager MCSO News (http://www.mcsonews.com/) I Mesa County Sheriff's Office (http://sheriff.mesacounty.us/)
PH: 970.986.0950 I CALL/TEXT
** Sgt. Henry Stoffel will be the next media contact. Note my last day is January 29, 2016. His email is: Henry.Stoffel@mesacounty.us** (mailto:Henry.Stoffel@mesacounty.us)

Hi Brandon,
Please do not submit open records requests to
Heather.Benjamin@mesacounty.us this person no longer works with the
Sheriff's Office. I have taken over that position. Please update your
records. I will forward your request on to our records department. They
may require you to resubmit it, using the correct channels/format.

-- Megan

---------- Forwarded message ----------
From: Benjamin Miller <benjamin.miller@mesacounty.us>
Date: Mon, Aug 1, 2016 at 10:50 AM
Subject: Fwd: Colorado Open Records Act Request: Persistent Surveillance
Systems Invoices (Mesa County, CO Sheriff)
To: Megan Terlecky <megan.terlecky@mesacounty.us>

Here's another one

Mobile email.... Please excuse brevity.

Begin forwarded message:

*From:* requests@muckrock.com
*Date:* August 1, 2016 at 10:20:14 AM MDT
*To:* Heather.Benjamin@mesacounty.us
*Subject:* *Colorado Open Records Act Request: Persistent Surveillance
Systems Invoices (Mesa County, CO Sheriff)*

August 1, 2016
Mesa County, CO Sheriff
215 Rice Street
P.O. Box 20,000
Grand Junction, Colorado 81502-5016

To Whom It May Concern:

Pursuant to the Colorado Open Records Act, I hereby request the following
records:

All records responsive to the below requests dated from January 1, 2014
through July 28, 2016.
- The full documentation of all contracts or non-disclosure agreements
(enacted OR IN EFFECT between the above dates) with the companies
"Persistent Surveillance Systems" or "Vigilant Solutions"
- Copies of all invoices to or from these companies, and documents
sufficient to show any and all disbursement of public funds to either
company
- The full documentation of all contracts (enacted OR IN EFFECT between the
above dates) with any company other than the two cited above, in which said
company provides your department with equipment or services (including
software) for 1. license plate scanning or reading or automatic
photographing; 2. aerial surveillance, excluding monitoring roadways for
speed infractions.
- Copies of all invoices to or from any company that fits the description
in the prior paragraph, and documents sufficient to show any disbursement
of public funds to any company that fits this description
- All emails between police department email accounts and users on the
domains "pss-1.com" or "vigilantsolutions.com". (One example would be
brian.schockley@vigilantsolutions.com. Users on the domain would be in the
form of XXXXXXXXX@vigilantsolutions.com)
- All paper-based communications between your department and Persistent
Surveillance Systems, and between your department and Vigilant Solutions.
In asking for all paper and electronic correspondence, this request
necessarily includes marketing materials and descriptions of product
capabilities for any device, software, or access/capability this department
has purchased. A circuit court judge in Illinois recently ruled that
non-disclosure agreements signed by public bodies do not trump freedom of
information laws when it comes to surveillance equipment/capability
purchased by police. Citation:
http://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2016/01/chicago-police-must-finally-produce-stingray-records-judge-orders/
- Documents sufficient to show all rules or regulations governing the use
of products (hardware or software) that do 1. license plate scanning or
reading or automatic photographing; 2. aerial surveillance, excluding
monitoring roadways for speed infractions.
- The text of all agreements (whether formal, email, memo, or otherwise)
between your department and any other public body or department that allows
your department to use or access the capabilities of 1. license plate
scanning or reading or automatic photographing; 2. aerial surveillance,
excluding monitoring roadways for speed infractions.
- Documents sufficient to show the month and year your department first
entered a program of scanning license plates or accessing a database of
scanned plates, if it indeed has such a program (and end date of said
program if it has ended).
- Documents sufficient to show the total number of license plates scanned
in your department's jurisdiction (whether the jurisdiction in this case is
precisely or roughly represented) since the department began its
plate-scanning program or first purchased access to such a program
- Documents sufficient to show the month and year your department first
entered a program of persistent aerial surveillance, if it indeed has such
a program (and end date of said program if it has ended).
- Documents sufficient to show the number of plane-hours of aerial
surveillance (excluding monitoring roadways for speed infractions)
purchased by your department within the dates at the top of this request.
For example, one plane flying for four hours is four plane-hours. Two
planes flying for four hours is eight plane-hours.
- Documents sufficient to show any attempt made by a representative of your
department to inform the public about automatic license plate readers or
persistent aerial surveillance. This could include but is not limited to
records of town hall meetings, quotes from police spokespeople in local
media, or text from the department's website.

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 3 business
days, as the statute requires.

Sincerely,

Brandon Smith

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PLEASE NOTE: This request is not filed by a MuckRock staff member, but is
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and manage public records requests. Also note that improperly addressed
(i.e., with the requester's name rather than "MuckRock News" and the
department number) requests might be returned as undeliverable.
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--
*Megan Terlecky*
Information & Communication Manager
Mesa County Sheriff's Office
215 Rice Street
Grand Junction, CO 81501
( <%28970%29%20244-3900>970) 244-3929
(970) 986-0950 cell
Megan.Terlecky@mesacounty.us

Hello-

I was routed this CORA request from the Mesa County Sheriff's Office. I
have received responses from the relevant departments in the County.

The emails requested have been downloaded and will be included in 2 emails
to be sent after this one. The emails are downloaded in a .zip format that
may be too large to send over email. If you do not receive two emails that
will be sent after this one, please let me know and I'll sort out how to
send it.

The finance department reports that no invoices have been generated for the
two named companies in your request. It is my understanding that no
contract exists between the County or MCSO and the named companies.

MCSO is still in the process in running down a few of the other requests
and I hope to have the rest of the response by today.

Please let me know if there are any other questions or issues.

Thanks.

Sincerely,

John R. Rhoads
Assistant County Attorney
Mesa County, Colorado
(970) 244-1879
john.rhoads@mesacounty.us

*CONFIDENTIALITY NOTICE: The contents of this email message and any
attachments are intended solely for the addressee(s) and may contain
confidential and/or privileged information and may be legally protected
from disclosure. If you are not the intended recipient of this message or
their agent, or if this message has been addressed to you in error, please
immediately alert the sender by reply email and then delete this message
and any attachments. If you are not the intended recipient, you are hereby
notified that any use, dissemination, copying, or storage of this message
or its attachments is strictly prohibited.*

Hello-

I said in my original email we had 2 packages, but that did not work. So I
am changing it to 3 packages. Please let me know if you did not get any of
the three emails.

Thanks.

Sincerely,

John R. Rhoads
Assistant County Attorney
Mesa County, Colorado
(970) 244-1879
john.rhoads@mesacounty.us

*CONFIDENTIALITY NOTICE: The contents of this email message and any
attachments are intended solely for the addressee(s) and may contain
confidential and/or privileged information and may be legally protected
from disclosure. If you are not the intended recipient of this message or
their agent, or if this message has been addressed to you in error, please
immediately alert the sender by reply email and then delete this message
and any attachments. If you are not the intended recipient, you are hereby
notified that any use, dissemination, copying, or storage of this message
or its attachments is strictly prohibited.*

Here is the second package.

Sincerely,

John R. Rhoads
Assistant County Attorney
Mesa County, Colorado
(970) 244-1879
john.rhoads@mesacounty.us

*CONFIDENTIALITY NOTICE: The contents of this email message and any
attachments are intended solely for the addressee(s) and may contain
confidential and/or privileged information and may be legally protected
from disclosure. If you are not the intended recipient of this message or
their agent, or if this message has been addressed to you in error, please
immediately alert the sender by reply email and then delete this message
and any attachments. If you are not the intended recipient, you are hereby
notified that any use, dissemination, copying, or storage of this message
or its attachments is strictly prohibited.*

Here is the third package.

Sincerely,

John R. Rhoads
Assistant County Attorney
Mesa County, Colorado
(970) 244-1879
john.rhoads@mesacounty.us

*CONFIDENTIALITY NOTICE: The contents of this email message and any
attachments are intended solely for the addressee(s) and may contain
confidential and/or privileged information and may be legally protected
from disclosure. If you are not the intended recipient of this message or
their agent, or if this message has been addressed to you in error, please
immediately alert the sender by reply email and then delete this message
and any attachments. If you are not the intended recipient, you are hereby
notified that any use, dissemination, copying, or storage of this message
or its attachments is strictly prohibited.*

Hello-

I received another document from the Sheriff's Office and it is attached.
They do have a UAV program and the attached policy has been adopted
regarding its use. They do not have any other documents responsive to your
request.

Please feel free to contact me if you have follow up questions.

Thanks.

Sincerely,

John R. Rhoads
Assistant County Attorney
Mesa County, Colorado
(970) 244-1879
john.rhoads@mesacounty.us

*CONFIDENTIALITY NOTICE: The contents of this email message and any
attachments are intended solely for the addressee(s) and may contain
confidential and/or privileged information and may be legally protected
from disclosure. If you are not the intended recipient of this message or
their agent, or if this message has been addressed to you in error, please
immediately alert the sender by reply email and then delete this message
and any attachments. If you are not the intended recipient, you are hereby
notified that any use, dissemination, copying, or storage of this message
or its attachments is strictly prohibited.*