Swift Philly (City Of Philadelphia)

THE CITY OF PHILADELPHIA Re: Taylor Swift concert records Your receipt number is: 20763 Dear requests@muckrock.com,

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Re: Taylor Swift concert records Request #: 20763 Dear requests@muckrock.com: Thank you for writing to the City of Philadelphia (City) Law Department with your request for information pursuant to the Pennsylvania Right-To-Know Law (RTKL), 65 P.S. § 67.101 et seq.

"On November 18, 2022, the City received your request for:
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"1) All instructional materials, presentations and presentation materials related to Taylor Swift concerts. This includes A) any notes taken during meetings that discussed Taylor Swift and B) Any other documents related to Taylor Swift including internal documentation, public relations materials, and executive summaries. 2) All "bid books" or functionally equivalent documents provided to or from the stadium/stadium authority for the purposes of soliciting bids for Taylor Swift concerts. 3) Any seating charts, "ticket holds," ticket allocation information, sales plans, or other ticket sales/distribution plans relating to Taylor Swift 4) Any contracts, presentations, instructional materials, budgets, proposals, or non-disclosure agreements between this office/department/the city and any of: Ticketmaster, Live Nation, and/or Live Nation Entertainment 5) Any contracts, presentations, instructional materials, budgets, proposals, or non-disclosure agreements between this office/the city and any of: Taylor Swift Touring, Anschutz Entertainment Group (AEG), and/or the Messina Group or Messina Touring Group. 6) Any emails and associated attachments to/from/mentioning “Taylor Swift Touring,” “MTG,” and “Messina Touring Group” sent between August 1, 2022 and the time this request is processed. 6) Any emails and associated attachments to/from email addresses that include "@livenation.com" or "@ticketmaster.com" sent between August 1, 2022 and the time this request is processed. The included emails can be further limited to include the words "Taylor" "Swift" and "Taylor Swift" 7) Any emails and associated attachments to/from email addresses that include “@messinagroupinc.com” or “@themessinagroup.com” sent between August 1, 2022 and the time this request is processed. Please try to include any other miscellaneous documents that facilitate ticketing related to Taylor Swift that don't neatly fall neatly into the above categories."

The City does not have records responsive to your request. It is not a denial of access under the RTKL if the records requested do not exist. Cf. Jenkins v. Pa. Dep’t of State, O.O.R. Dkt. AP 2009-0065 (Pa. O.O.R. April 2, 2009). However, the City reserves its rights to assert bases for denial if additional responsive records are located after a review of such records. ​
This correspondence will close your request with our office as permitted by law.

Respectfully, ​
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Feige M. Grundman
Pronouns: she/her
Divisional Deputy City Solicitor - Right to Know
Legislative Unit
City of Philadelphia Law Department
One Parkway Building, 17th Floor
1515 Arch Street
Philadelphia, PA 19102
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Appeals processing during the COVID-19 pandemic: If you wish to contest this determination, you may file an appeal with the Office of Open Records (OOR) as provided for in 65 P.S. § 67.1101. Please see https://www.openrecords.pa.gov/Appeals/HowToFile.cfm for instructions on the appeal process. In addition, please see the OOR's RTKL advisory regarding the COVID-19 pandemic, which contains additional information: https://openrecordspennsylvania.com/2020/03/12/the-rtkl-and-covid-19/ If you wish to appeal to the OOR, you must do so within 15 business days of the date of this correspondence.

On Fri, Nov 18 at 6:08 PM , City of Philadelphia Right to Know <righttoknow@phila.gov> wrote:
THE CITY OF PHILADELPHIA

Dear requests@muckrock.com,

Thank you for your correspondence. This is an automatic response to let you know that the City will process your request and respond further within five business days of its receipt by an Open Records Officer. Please note that requests received after 5PM are deemed received the next business day."