Mobile Biometric Technologies (Nevada Gaming Control Board)

Dear Mr. Morisy,

We are in receipt of your Public Records Request dated August 27, 2015. We apologize for any inconvenience, but we do not have a record of a previously submitted request. To better understand your request, we need further clarification. Are you inquiring about the origin of how information is generated, or information compiled using mobile devices and/or apps?
Thank you for the clarification.

Barbara Bolton
Administrative Coordinator
Custodian of Records
Administration Division
Nevada Gaming Control Board
(775) 684-7825
bbolton@gcb.nv.gov

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August 27, 2015
Nevada Gaming Control Board
P.O. Box 8003
Carson City, Nevada 89702-8003

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 Aug. 9, 2015. Please let me know when I can expect to receive a response, or if further clarification is needed.

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

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On Aug. 12, 2015:
Dear Custodian of Records/Public Records Coordinator,

I am collaborating with the Electronic Frontier Foundation, a public interest group, and the media organization MuckRock, to survey how law enforcement agencies deploy mobile biometric technologies.

Mobile biometric technologies can be defined as any mobile device or mobile app used by law enforcement agencies to scan, capture, analyze, store, or automatically recognize any physical or biological characteristic of a subject. Commonly used mobile biometric technologies include fingerprint/thumbprint collection, facial recognition, scans of the iris or other elements of the human eye, Rapid DNA, and tattoo recognition. (Please see below for examples.)

Pursuant to Nevada Public Records Act, M.G.L. c.66, §10, I request the following records pertaining to mobile biometric technologies, including those listed above, as well as other biometric technologies I have not identified:

1) Purchasing and procurement documents, including but not limited to: purchase orders, RFPs, responses to RFPs, invoices and contracts

2) Policy, procedural, and training documents, including but not limited to: use policies, standard operating procedures, training materials, presentations, privacy assessments, data retention policies, and other guidelines

3) Programming documents, including but not limited to: funding opportunity announcements, grant applications and grantor status/progress reports, reports to legislative bodies, annual reports

4) Audit documents, including but not limited to: audits of the system, misuse reports, and reports to oversight bodies

In your response, I would appreciate that you individually address each of the above categories of documents individually.

In addition to the above classes of documents, I am also seeking the following information:

- The total number of individuals whose biometric data has been collected over the last three years,
- The total number of [biometric data points] contained in the agency’s database
- The retention period for biometric data
- The number of mobile biometrics devices purchased and in use
- The total number of authorized users of the mobile biometrics devices
- Which external agencies and entities have access to biometric data in the database and under what conditions,
- Whether biometric data is combined with biographic data such as name and address in the database, and
- The process by which data is entered into the database

These documents will be published online and inform the public dialog over police technology. Because of the great public interest in these issues, I ask that you waive any fees. If your agency is unable to do so, please contact me with an estimate of the costs.

Thank you.

Sincerely,

Michael Morisy

Examples:

Mobile facial recognition
http://www.utsandiego.com/news/2013/nov/08/cir-facial-recognition-software-san-diego/

Mobile fingerprint readers
http://www.policechiefmagazine.org/magazine/index.cfm?fuseaction=display_arch&article_id=1824&issue_id=62009

Mobile iris scanners
http://www.reuters.com/article/2011/07/20/us-crime-identification-iris-idUSTRE76J4A120110720

Rapid DNA
http://www.policemag.com/channel/technology/articles/2014/02/speeding-up-dna-analysis.aspx

Mobile Tattoo Recognition
http://www.lawofficer.com/articles/print/volume-10/issue-4/features/new-smartphone-app-interprets.html

Filed via MuckRock.com
E-mail (Preferred): requests@muckrock.com<mailto:requests@muckrock.com>

For mailed responses, please address (see note):
MuckRock
DEPT MR 20333
PO Box 55819
Boston, MA 02205-5819

PLEASE NOTE: This request was filed by a MuckRock staff reporter. 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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Dear Mr. Morisy,

We are in receipt of your Public Records Request dated August 27, 2015. We apologize for any inconvenience, but we do not have a record of a previously submitted request. To better understand your request, we need further clarification. Are you inquiring about the origin of how information is generated, or information compiled using mobile devices and/or apps? What specifically are you requesting?
Thank you,

Barbara Bolton
Administrative Coordinator
Custodian of Records
Administration Division
Nevada Gaming Control Board
(775) 684-7825
bbolton@gcb.nv.gov

This message, together with any attachment(s), is intended only for the addressee(s) and may contain information that is privileged and confidential. If the reader of the message is not the intended recipient or an authorized representative of the intended recipient, I did not intend to waive and do not waive any privilege or the confidentiality of the message and any attachment(s), and you are hereby notified that any dissemination of this communication is strictly prohibited. If you receive this communication in error, please notify me immediately by email and delete the message and any attachment(s) from your computer and network.

Dear Mr, Morisy:

Thank you for the clarification. Our agency does not use mobile biometric technologies.

Barbara Bolton
Administrative Coordinator
Custodian of Records
Administration Division
Nevada Gaming Control Board
(775) 684-7825
bbolton@gcb.nv.gov

This message, together with any attachment(s), is intended only for the addressee(s) and may contain information that is privileged and confidential. If the reader of the message is not the intended recipient or an authorized representative of the intended recipient, I did not intend to waive and do not waive any privilege or the confidentiality of the message and any attachment(s), and you are hereby notified that any dissemination of this communication is strictly prohibited. If you receive this communication in error, please notify me immediately by email and delete the message and any attachment(s) from your computer and network.