spotteredu (University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill)

Jason Koebler filed this request with the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill of North Carolina.
Tracking #

20-53
Multi Request spotteredu
Submitted Jan. 29, 2020
Status
Completed

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From: Jason Koebler

Subject: North Carolina Public Records Law Request: spotteredu (University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill)

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To Whom It May Concern:

Pursuant to the North Carolina Public Records Law, I hereby request the following records:

Public reports state that this university may have partnered with SpotterEDU, an AI company. (https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2019/12/24/colleges-are-turning-students-phones-into-surveillance-machines-tracking-locations-hundreds-thousands/)

Therefore, I hereby request the following records:

1) All instructional materials, presentations and presentation materials (including recorded video and audio, PowerPoint files, prepared remarks, and slides formats), and other guidance on the use of SpotterEDU. This includes A) any notes taken during meetings that discussed the use of Banjo, B) any explanations (whether internally or externally generated) of how SpotterEDU works, and C) any other document that has been used to help explain the use of SpotterEDU, including internal documentation, public relations materials, and executive summaries.

2) A copy of any privacy impact assessments, use policies, standard operating procedures, data retention policies, legal opinions, warranties, non-disclosure agreements, contracts, liability waivers, insurance agreements, Requests for Proposals, Responses to Requests for Proposal, Memorandums of Understanding, Letters of Interest, usage policies, or informal agreements between the police department and SpotterEDU.

3) A copy of any funding opportunity announcements, grant applications and grantor status/progress reports, reports to legislative bodies, annual reports that mention SpotterEDU, as well as audit records, including but not limited to security audits of the software, misuse reports, and reports to oversight bodies.

4) Any digital communications including but not limited to emails and text messages) as well as documents, (including but not limited to PDF, word processing, excel, and slide documents) that mention SpotterEDU.

5) Any case reports in which SpotterEDU was used.

5) Any digital communications (including but not limited to emails and text messages) with SpotterEDU representatives.

Please try to include any other miscellaneous documents that facilitate this police department's relationship with SpotterEDU that don't neatly fall neatly into the above categories.

The requested documents will be made available to the general public, and this request is not being made for commercial purposes. It will be used in the course of reporting for Motherboard, VICE’s science and technology website (www.motherboard.vice.com).

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 10 business days.

Sincerely,

Jason Koebler

From: University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

Subject: Your first record request #20-53 has been opened.

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UNC-Chapel Hill

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Hi there

Your first UNC-Chapel Hill record request (request number #20-53) has been submitted.
It is currently unpublished and is not available for the general public to view.

The University processes requests as promptly as possible and, generally, in the order they are received.

Because of the large volume of requests and a legal mandate to review every page to protect confidential information, it often takes time before we can start processing a new request. The broader and more vague the request (for example, “all documents,” "all names," or “all emails” covering an indefinite time period), the longer it takes to identify and collect potentially responsive records. 

We post all public records requests to nextrequest.unc.edu or, for older requests, http://publicrecords.unc.edu/public-records/.  For more information about the public records process at UNC-Chapel Hill, visit http://publicrecords.unc.edu/.

 

Sincerely,

 

The Public Records Office

The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

Request #20-53.

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From: University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

Subject: Your UNC-Chapel Hill public records request #20-53 has been published.

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UNC-Chapel Hill

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Hi there

Record request #20-53 has been published and is now available for public view.

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From: University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

Subject: Your UNC-Chapel Hill public records request #20-53 has been closed.

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UNC-Chapel Hill

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Hi there

Record request #20-53 has been closed and published. The closure reason supplied was:

New documents or requested information have been posted to your request. The documents are being provided to you in accordance with the North Carolina Public Records Act.  This request has been fully processed and is closed.

 

Sincerely,

 

The Public Records Office

The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

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From: University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

Subject: [Document Released to Requester] UNC-Chapel Hill public records request #20-53

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UNC-Chapel Hill

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Hi there

A document has been released to you for record request #20-53:

* 2020.01.30 _ Koebler _ Response.pdf

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