FLIR/IR Imagery (North Dakota Highway Patrol)
| Multi Request | FLIR/IR Imagery |
| Submitted | May 21, 2019 |
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From: Craig Neef
To Whom It May Concern:
Pursuant to the North Dakota Open Records Law, I hereby request the following records:
I’m requesting video and photos collected by law enforcement through the use of FLIR/Infrared/IR/thermal/nightvision, during the Dakota Access Pipeline protests which occurred between September 1st, 2016, and March 1st, 2017 in North Dakota.
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,
Craig Neef
From: Muckrock Staff
To Whom It May Concern:
I wanted to follow up on the following North Dakota Open Records Law request, copied below, and originally submitted on May 21, 2019. 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: North Dakota Highway Patrol
Good afternoon Mr. Neef.
I have obtained preliminary information related to your request. Our IT department estimates hundreds of hours of video exist which meet your request. Duplication of this video and the charges associated with it will be billed on an hour per hour scale (this does not include redaction obligations). It will take one employee hour to duplicate one video hour.
A conservative estimate to fulfill your request is $15,000. The final cost will likely be much greater when we factor in potential administrative or IT related functions involved in such an endeavor.
I’ll await your response prior to any further action.
Thanks.
Captain Jody Skogen
NDHP
From: Craig Neef
Captain Jody Skogen,
I would like to modify my initial data request to only include the following dates:
9/3/16
9/13/16
9/28/16
10/7/16 through 10/10/16
10/22/16 through 10/23/16
10/26/16 through 10/29/16
11/6/16 through 11/7/16
11/19/16 through 11/22/16
12/4/16 through 12/6/16
12/27/16
1/6/17
1/9/17
1/16/17 through 1/18/17
1/24/17
1/31/17 through 2/2/17
2/20/17 through 2/25/17
Please let me know the updated cost estimate for those dates.
Thank You,
Craig Neef
From: North Dakota Highway Patrol
Good afternoon Mr. Neef.
I have forwarded the dates / time frames to our IT department. I will advise you of the potential charges associated with meeting this request as soon as they are able to provide me information.
Thanks.
Captain Skogen
From: Muckrock Staff
To Whom It May Concern:
I wanted to follow up on the following North Dakota Open Records Law request, copied below, and originally submitted on May 21, 2019. 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: North Dakota Highway Patrol
Good afternoon Mr. Neef.
We have 191 videos from our aircraft containing 134 hours of video for the dates you have requested. Please advise as to how you would like us to proceed. Your response will help us create an estimate.
Take care.
Jody
From: Craig Neef
Good morning Jody,
I would like to receive all 191 videos (134 hrs) but I will need a cost estimate before I can be absolutely certain.
Thank you,
Craig Neef
From: North Dakota Highway Patrol
Good evening Craig. I’ll work on getting you an estimate on Monday.
Have a good weekend.
Jody
Sent from my iPhone
From: North Dakota Highway Patrol
Good morning Craig.
There are a lot of moving parts to your request, some of which I wasn’t aware of. I’ve checked all of the boxes and have verified the request below can be met. IT has means of locating the files without significant time involved and redaction won’t be applicable as there is no audio. The total time invested will be less than five hours. It will be approximately $25 per hour. Do you wish for us to send you the videos based upon this information?
Jody
From: Craig Neef
Hi Jody,
Yes, I would like to move forward on this. Thank you so much for your assistance.
Craig
From: North Dakota Highway Patrol
Good afternoon Craig.
Please see the attached document. I’ll send you a dropbox link as soon as payment has been received.
Please direct the payment to my attention.
Jody
NDHP
600 East Blvd Ave Dept. 504
Bismarck, ND 58505
Jody Skogen, Captain
Administrative Services Division Commander
(701) 328-2447 • (701) 328-4240 • jskogen@nd.gov<mailto:jskogen@nd.gov> • www.nd.gov/ndhp<https://www.nd.gov/ndhp/>
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From: Craig Neef
To Whom It May Concern:
Please find enclosed a check for $50.00 to satisfy the fee associated with the attached public records request.
Thank you.
From: North Dakota Highway Patrol
Here is the link for the FLIR videos requested:
https://www.dropbox.com/sh/mu1don722tp83gl/AACtJvrKbIGgWVv-74ykIUpKa?dl=0
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From: Craig Neef
Hi Jody,
I did not receive any footage from the entire day of November 20th (2016). I also did not receive any footage from the entire day of October 27th (2016), nor the entire day of February 23rd (2017).
Can you please send me all the FLIR video you have from those three days which I had requested and was presumably charged for?
Thank You,
Craig
From: North Dakota Highway Patrol
Good morning Craig.
I’ve reached back to our IT department for clarification into this issue. I’ll let you know what I find out as soon as they are able to get back to me.
Thanks for your patience.
Jody
From: North Dakota Highway Patrol
Try the DropBox link now Craig. Please let me know what you find.
Jody
From: Craig Neef
Hi Jody,
Thank you for your quick response. I found three new videos in the Dropbox folder from Feb 23rd and Nov 20th but still nothing from Oct 27th 2016. Is your IT department still working to locate those videos from October 27th?
Thanks,
Craig
From: North Dakota Highway Patrol
Good afternoon Craig. We provided three videos (very sorry for the oversight). Two were from 2/23 and one from 11/20. We do not have any video for October 27, 2016.
Take care.
Jody
From: Craig Neef
Hi Jody,
Can you please tell me who would have that FLIR footage from October 27th? I presumed NDHP would have many hours of footage from that date given that on October 27th, 2016, NDHP participated in an extremely high profile operation which lasted close to 24 hours, during which surveillance aircraft were airborne.
Thanks,
Craig
From: North Dakota Highway Patrol
The error has been identified Craig. Please see below and thank you for your patience.
Jody
From: Oswald, Carrie L. <coswald@nd.gov>
Sent: Monday, September 9, 2019 7:48 AM
To: Skogen, Capt. Jody L. <jskogen@nd.gov>
Subject: FW: North Dakota Open Records Law Request: FLIR/IR Imagery (North Dakota Highway Patrol)
Jody
Apparently there were files for Oct. 27 (7 total) they were miss categorized by a date in 2011. They have been added to the dropbox link.
Carrie
From: Oswald, Carrie L.
Sent: Thursday, September 05, 2019 2:37 PM
To: Skogen, Capt. Jody L. <jskogen@nd.gov<mailto:jskogen@nd.gov>>
Subject: RE: North Dakota Open Records Law Request: FLIR/IR Imagery (North Dakota Highway Patrol)
Yes he can use the existing link.
From: Skogen, Capt. Jody L. <jskogen@nd.gov<mailto:jskogen@nd.gov>>
Sent: Thursday, September 05, 2019 2:36 PM
To: Oswald, Carrie L. <coswald@nd.gov<mailto:coswald@nd.gov>>
Subject: Re: North Dakota Open Records Law Request: FLIR/IR Imagery (North Dakota Highway Patrol)
Can he use the existing Dropbox link? Is that where they were reloaded to?
Sent from my iPhone
On Sep 5, 2019, at 9:26 AM, Oswald, Carrie L. <coswald@nd.gov<mailto:coswald@nd.gov>> wrote:
There is no footage for Oct 27th. One on Nov. 20 and 2 on Feb 23. I reuploaded the 3 videos maybe something was a miss in the transfer.
From: Skogen, Capt. Jody L. <jskogen@nd.gov<mailto:jskogen@nd.gov>>
Sent: Wednesday, September 04, 2019 5:03 PM
To: Oswald, Carrie L. <coswald@nd.gov<mailto:coswald@nd.gov>>
Subject: FW: North Dakota Open Records Law Request: FLIR/IR Imagery (North Dakota Highway Patrol)
Carrie, was this footage provided, or does none exist?
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Sent: Wednesday, September 4, 2019 4:59 PM
To: Skogen, Capt. Jody L. <jskogen@nd.gov<mailto:jskogen@nd.gov>>
Subject: RE: North Dakota Open Records Law Request: FLIR/IR Imagery (North Dakota Highway Patrol)
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North Dakota Highway Patrol
North Dakota Open Records Law Office
600 E Boulevard Ave
Bismarck, ND 58505
September 4, 2019
This is a follow up to a previous request:
Hi Jody,
I did not receive any footage from the entire day of November 20th (2016). I also did not receive any footage from the entire day of October 27th (2016), nor the entire day of February 23rd (2017).
Can you please send me all the FLIR video you have from those three days which I had requested and was presumably charged for?
Thank You,
Craig
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On July 30, 2019:
Subject: RE: North Dakota Open Records Law Request: FLIR/IR Imagery (North Dakota Highway Patrol)
Here is the link for the FLIR videos requested:
https://www.dropbox.com/sh/mu1don722tp83gl/AACtJvrKbIGgWVv-74ykIUpKa?dl=0
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On July 23, 2019:
Subject: RE: North Dakota Open Records Law Request: FLIR/IR Imagery (North Dakota Highway Patrol)
To Whom It May Concern:
Please find enclosed a check for $50.00 to satisfy the fee associated with the attached public records request.
Thank you.
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On July 22, 2019:
Subject: RE: North Dakota Open Records Law Request: FLIR/IR Imagery (North Dakota Highway Patrol)
Good afternoon Craig.
Please see the attached document. I’ll send you a dropbox link as soon as payment has been received.
Please direct the payment to my attention.
Jody
NDHP
600 East Blvd Ave Dept. 504
Bismarck, ND 58505
Jody Skogen, Captain
Administrative Services Division Commander
(701) 328-2447 • (701) 328-4240 • jskogen@nd.gov<mailto:jskogen@nd.gov<mailto:jskogen@nd.gov%3cmailto:jskogen@nd.gov>> • www.nd.gov/ndhp<https://www.nd.gov/ndhp/<http://www.nd.gov/ndhp%3chttps:/www.nd.gov/ndhp/>>
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On July 19, 2019:
Subject: RE: North Dakota Open Records Law Request: FLIR/IR Imagery (North Dakota Highway Patrol)
Hi Jody,
Yes, I would like to move forward on this. Thank you so much for your assistance.
Craig
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On July 19, 2019:
Subject: RE: North Dakota Open Records Law Request: FLIR/IR Imagery (North Dakota Highway Patrol)
Good morning Craig.
There are a lot of moving parts to your request, some of which I wasn’t aware of. I’ve checked all of the boxes and have verified the request below can be met. IT has means of locating the files without significant time involved and redaction won’t be applicable as there is no audio. The total time invested will be less than five hours. It will be approximately $25 per hour. Do you wish for us to send you the videos based upon this information?
Jody
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On May 21, 2019:
Subject: North Dakota Open Records Law Request: FLIR/IR Imagery (North Dakota Highway Patrol)
To Whom It May Concern:
Pursuant to the North Dakota Open Records Law, I hereby request the following records:
I’m requesting video and photos collected by law enforcement through the use of FLIR/Infrared/IR/thermal/nightvision, during the Dakota Access Pipeline protests which occurred between September 1st, 2016, and March 1st, 2017 in North Dakota.
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,
Craig Neef
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From: Muckrock Staff
To Whom It May Concern:
I wanted to follow up on the following North Dakota Open Records Law request, copied below, and originally submitted on May 21, 2019. 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: North Dakota Highway Patrol
Good morning.
I will need clarification, as my records indicate the elements of the request have been met.
Thank you.
Captain Skogen.
Sent from my iPhone
From: Muckrock Staff
Hello Captain Skogen,
We apologize for the confusion and thank you for your help in fulfilling this request.
Thanks so much.
From: North Dakota Highway Patrol
Good afternoon, and no problem at all.
If something is still needed regarding this particular request, as ask that you please contact me at 701-328-4240. If I don’t hear from you, then I’ll assume we are good to go.
Take care.
Jody
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