BlueLeaks (Newark Police Department)

Emma North-Best filed this request with the Newark Police Department of Newark, NJ.
Multi Request BlueLeaks
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Communications

From: Emma North-Best


To Whom It May Concern:

Pursuant to the New Jersey Open Public Records Act, I hereby request the following records:

1. Documents mentioning, describing or generated in response to the BlueLeaks release, the preceding hack or subsequent fallout, including but not limited to:

* Damage assessments
* Emails
* Interagency communications (local, state, or federal)
* Communications with the press about BlueLeaks
* Communications with Twitter or other social media or sharing platforms

2. Documents mentioning or describing Distributed Denial of Secrets (DDoSecrets)

You may limit this request to records generated between November 1, 2018 and the present.

I am a member of the news media and request classification as such. I have previously written about the government and its activities, with some reaching over 100,000 readers in outlets such as Gizmodo, MuckRock, Motherboard, Property of the People, Unicorn Riot, and The Outline, among others. As such, as I have a reasonable expectation of publication and my editorial and writing skills are well established. In addition, I discuss and comment on the files online and make them available through non-profits such as the library Internet Archive and the journalist non-profit MuckRock, disseminating them to a large audience. While my research is not limited to this, a great deal of it, including this, focuses on the activities and attitudes of the government itself. As such, it is not necessary for me to demonstrate the relevance of this particular subject in advance.

As my primary purpose is to inform about government activities by reporting on it and making the raw data available, I request that fees be waived.

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 7 business days, as the statute requires.

Sincerely,

Emma Best

From: Newark Police Department

Good Afternoon:

The Office of the Clerk of the City of Newark has assigned your request tracking number OIT-21-0009 CV-19 and forwarded it to the Office of Information Technology. This Office received this request on June 1, 2021, and anticipates a response from OIT by July 1, 2021.

From: Newark Police Department

Good Morning:

The Office of the Clerk of the City of Newark has received the response from the Office of Information Technology to your OPRA request. The search completed by OIT resulted in more than four-thousand responsive communications. Reviewing this number of responses in response to one request constitutes an extraordinary expenditure of time and effort. Therefore, attached please find the 14-point analysis explaining in greater detail the price to be paid in order to process this request. Attached please find copies of the following documents:

1. OPRA request OIT-21-0009
2. OIT response
3. 14-Point analysis

Sincerely,

Samora Noguera

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