Apple Wallet Electronic Driver's License (Bureau of Motor Vehicles)

Good Afternoon,

Thank you for your recent public record request.

As required by law, attached is your acknowledgment letter regarding your public record request.

I will follow-up with you regarding your request and/or will notify you when responsive records, if any, are available.

If you have any questions, please feel free to contact me.

Sincerely,

Jeff Payne
Chief, BMV Record Services
Ohio Department of Public Safety
Phone # - (614) 752-7631

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Matt Zagaja
You submitted a public records request in an email received on June 10, 2021 to the Ohio Department of Public Safety (DPS).

Please note that DPS does not have any responsive records for vendor solicitations, requests for proposals, and project proposals.

As for emails, this request is overly broad. Ohio law provides that a requester has a duty to identify the records sought with sufficient clarity. State ex rel. Dillery v. Icsman (2001), 92 Ohio St.3d 312, 314. Please note that your request does not satisfy the requirements of Ohio public records law that a request must be specific and particularly describe what is being sought from the public office. State ex rel. Zauderer v. Joseph (1989), 62 Ohio App.3d 752, at 756. Specifically, this request does not identify which employees' email accounts are to be searched. State ex rel. Morgan v. City New Lexington, 112 Ohio St. 3d 33 (2006), ¶ 35 (citing State ex rel. Thomas v. Ohio State Univ., 70 Ohio St. 3d 1437-1439). Also, a request for email records is not overly broad if it is reasonably circumscribed by time period, subject matter, author or sender/recipient, and the like. Mentch v. City of Cleveland, 2021-Ohio-1564, Court of Claims. See also State ex rel. Kesterson v. Kent State Univ., 156 Ohio St. 3d 22, 2018-Ohio-5110, 123 N.E.3d 895, ¶ 23-27.

Please contact me with any questions and should you want to clarify or narrow your public records request. Furthermore, you may want to review DPS records retention schedules which can be found at https://apps.das.ohio.gov/RIMS/GeneralSchedule which may assist you in your request.

DPS does not keep a list of all employees and job titles. This is not how our employee records are kept. I can provide the below link to the Ohio Checkbook website that will show current and past employees for a given year such as 2021. This list does show name and job title.

https://checkbook.ohio.gov/Salaries/State.aspx

Alex S. Armitage
ODPS Associate Legal Counsel
614-728-9423

From: requests@muckrock.com <requests@muckrock.com>
Sent: Monday, June 28, 2021 10:18 PM
To: DPS Public Records <publicrecords@dps.ohio.gov>
Subject: [EXTERNAL]RE: Ohio Open Records Law Request #PRR-21-001485

Bureau of Motor Vehicles
Ohio Open Records Law Office
PO Box 16520
Columbus, OH 43216-6520

June 28, 2021

This is a follow up to request number PRR-21-001485:

Hello,

Thank you for your response. I can make this more specific if it is helpful. I will respond by point below:

> This request does not identify which employees' email accounts are to be searched:
* I will need a list of employees and their titles in order to narrow my search to this parameter. If you would like me to provide this, would you be able to provide a full list of current employees and their job titles?

> a request for email records is not overly broad if it is reasonably circumscribed by time period, subject matter, author or sender/recipient, and the like.

I can provide the following narrowing parameters:

Date Range: January 1, 2019 to June 28, 2021
Anything that has in the from/to fields: "*@apple.com"
Anything in the email subject or body: "Apple Wallet", "Digital Identity", "Travis Feuerbacher", "Gail Hodges", "Mark Lennon", "Irene Graff"

Let me know if the above narrowing parameters are sufficient or anything else I can do to further narrow this.

Best,

Matt

View request history, upload responsive documents, and report problems here:
https://www.muckrock.com/

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

For mailed responses, please address (see note):
MuckRock News
DEPT MR 113846
411A Highland Ave
Somerville, MA 02144-2516

PLEASE NOTE: This request is not filed by a MuckRock staff member, but is being sent through MuckRock by the above in order to better track, share, and manage public records requests. 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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On June 23, 2021:
Subject: RE: [EXTERNAL]Ohio Open Records Law Request: Apple Wallet Electronic Driver's License (Bureau of Motor Vehicles)
Matt Zagaja
You submitted a public records request in an email received on June 10, 2021 to the Ohio Department of Public Safety (DPS).

Please note that DPS does not have any responsive records for vendor solicitations, requests for proposals, and project proposals.

As for emails, this request is overly broad. Ohio law provides that a requester has a duty to identify the records sought with sufficient clarity. State ex rel. Dillery v. Icsman (2001), 92 Ohio St.3d 312, 314. Please note that your request does not satisfy the requirements of Ohio public records law that a request must be specific and particularly describe what is being sought from the public office. State ex rel. Zauderer v. Joseph (1989), 62 Ohio App.3d 752, at 756. Specifically, this request does not identify which employees' email accounts are to be searched. State ex rel. Morgan v. City New Lexington, 112 Ohio St. 3d 33 (2006), ¶ 35 (citing State ex rel. Thomas v. Ohio State Univ., 70 Ohio St. 3d 1437-1439). Also, a request for email records is not overly broad if it is reasonably circumscribed by time period, subject matter, author or sender/recipient, and the like. Mentch v. City of Cleveland, 2021-Ohio-1564, Court of Claims. See also State ex rel. Kesterson v. Kent State Univ., 156 Ohio St. 3d 22, 2018-Ohio-5110, 123 N.E.3d 895, ¶ 23-27.

Please contact me with any questions and should you want to clarify or narrow your public records request. Furthermore, you may want to review DPS records retention schedules which can be found at https://apps.das.ohio.gov/RIMS/GeneralSchedule which may assist you in your request.

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On June 14, 2021:
Subject: Public Record Request - PRR-21-001485
Good Afternoon,

Thank you for your recent public record request.

As required by law, attached is your acknowledgment letter regarding your public record request.

I will follow-up with you regarding your request and/or will notify you when responsive records, if any, are available.

If you have any questions, please feel free to contact me.

Sincerely,

Jeff Payne
Chief, BMV Record Services
Ohio Department of Public Safety
Phone # - (614) 752-7631

[Ohio_Brand_DPS_outliines]
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On June 9, 2021:
Subject: Ohio Open Records Law Request: Apple Wallet Electronic Driver's License (Bureau of Motor Vehicles)

To Whom It May Concern:

Pursuant to the Ohio Open Records Law, I hereby request the following records:

I'm interested in documents including emails, vendor solicitations, requests for proposals, and project proposals related to Apple Wallet ID card program, which is referenced publicly on their website here: https://www.apple.com/ios/ios-15-preview/ While the program is publicly announced, they have not shared participating states and I'm interested in any responsive documents whether or not the state has decided to participate in the program.

If you have any suggestions on how to better tailor my request to provide useful results while minimizing the burden on the agency to complete it, please let me know.

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,

Matt Zagaja

View request history, upload responsive documents, and report problems here:
https://www.muckrock.com/

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

For mailed responses, please address (see note):
MuckRock News
DEPT MR 113846
411A Highland Ave
Somerville, MA 02144-2516

PLEASE NOTE: This request is not filed by a MuckRock staff member, but is being sent through MuckRock by the above in order to better track, share, and manage public records requests. 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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