Kauai County Prosecutor's Roster 2023-3-3
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| Submitted | March 3, 2023 |
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From: Sam Stecklow
To Whom It May Concern:
This is a public records request made via MuckRock under the Hawaii Uniform Information Practices Act, seeking records related to law enforcement officer employment rosters in this state.
This request is brought by Big Local News along with a collaboration of news organizations, including ABC News, KQED, MuckRock, the Invisible Institute and other news organizations. Big Local News is a program of Stanford University’s Journalism and Democracy Initiative and helps journalists collect, process and analyze public data.
We are seeking any datasets, databases, and/or spreadsheets sufficient to show the following information regarding every current or former sworn employee of the Kauai County Prosecutor's Office Criminal Investigations Unit, year-by-year, dating back however far as the data exist for:
First name
Middle name or initial
Last name
Unique employee identification number
Star or badge number
Race
Gender
Year of birth
Rank
Troop assignment
Unit assignment
Division assignment (Patrol, Investigations, Support, etc.)
Hire date
Separation date, if applicable
Reason for separation, if applicable
If your certification/roster system contains data elements not listed above, please include them in the response, provided they are releasable under the law. On the other hand, we recognize some of the information we are asking for may not be tracked by your system. If that is the case, we are willing to accept as many of the data elements as your agency maintains. If some records are more readily available, we are happy to receive partial information as soon as possible while the remaining request is processed.
In addition to the data elements listed, we request documentation necessary to understand and interpret the data, including but not limited to record layouts, data dictionaries, code sheets, lookup tables, etc.
Our preference is to receive structured data provided in a machine-readable text file, such as delimited or fixed-width formats. We can also handle a variety of other data formats including SQL databases, Excel workbooks and MS Access. If there are additional formats your agency would prefer to provide, please let us know.
We are seeking this information as a news media organization on a matter of public interest concerning the conduct of government. As such, we ask for a waiver of all fees, if allowed under state law. If fees are necessary to reimburse the agency for actual costs, we agree to pay up to $100. If costs exceed that amount, please let us know before fulfilling the request.
Please send clarifications and questions via electronic communication at any time. Thank you very much for your time and attention to this request.
Sam Stecklow
Journalist
Invisible Institute
From: Muckrock Staff
To Whom It May Concern:
I wanted to follow up on the following Hawaii Uniform Information Practices Act request, copied below, and originally submitted on March 3, 2023. 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: County of Kauai, Public Information Office
Aloha,
Your request has been received and someone from our HR department will be responding to you today.
Mahalo,
Kim
From: County of Kauai, Public Information Office
Aloha,
Please see the attached report. In following the requirements of the Hawaii Revised Statutes §92F-12, we were not able to provide some of the information you requested. Additionally, we do not have a Criminal Investigations Unit within the Office of the Prosecuting Attorney (OPA), but we went ahead and provided all employees within OPA.
If you have any questions, please contact me at jniitani@kauai.gov or humanresources@kauai.gov.
Mahalo,
Jill Niitani
HR Manager
From: County of Kauai, Public Information Office
Aloha,
The file was uploaded a few minutes ago and I provided a message, but I’m unsure if it was received.
Please let me know if you did not receive it and I will resubmit it online. As noted in my message, in following the requirements of the Hawai‘i Revised Statutes §92F-12, I was not able to provide all of the info you requested. Also, the Office of the Prosecuting Attorney (OPA) does not have a Criminal Investigations Unit, however, we went ahead and provided the names of all of the employees within OPA (employees as of January of the years 2018-2023).
Mahalo,
Jill Niitani
Human Resources Manager III
County of Kaua`i
Department of Human Resources
4444 Rice Street, Suite 140
Lihue, HI 96766
Phone: (808) 241-4929
Fax: (808) 241-6593
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From: Sam Stecklow
Hi Jill
Thanks for the explanation. We have not received the file yet, so if you could please upload again that would be great.
Thanks
Sam
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