UASI equipment grants to law enforcement (Sacramento Police Department)

Dear John:

Thank you for contacting the Sacramento Police Department to obtain public records.

The Police Department received your Public Records Act request dated December 19, 2021 and has assigned the reference number R016640-121921 for tracking purposes.

Record(s) Requested: To Whom It May Concern:

Pursuant to the California Public Records Act, I hereby request the following records:

Records that identify equipment grants to law enforcement agencies within the area in which your Urban Areas Security Initiative (UASI) authority operates, approved since January 1, 2016, including grant application if available, that contain some or all of the following information:

Name of recipient or sub-recipient;
City or County of recipient/sub-recipient;
Summary description of equipment for which the grant was intended;
Dollar amount or value of grant, award, or sub-award;
Fiscal Year of federal funds from which grant originated;
Time period in which grant was to be executed.

The information we have received from the California Office of Emergency Services indicates that the following serve as UASI authorities or administrators within California:
Bay Area UASI;
City of Los Angeles;
City of Santa Ana, Homeland Security Division;
City of San Diego, Office of Homeland Security;
City of Riverside Office of Emergency Management;
Sacramento Police Department.

Please disclose records as they become available to you. If you determine that any or all of the information in responsive records is exempt from disclosure, I request that: (1) you exercise your discretion to disclose some or all of the records notwithstanding the exemption; and (2) that, with respect to records containing both exempt and non-exempt content, you redact the exempt content and disclose the rest.

If you have questions to clarify this request, you may contact me directly at 510-282-8983 or via email at jlindsay-poland@afsc.org.

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 calendar days, as the statute requires.

Sincerely,

John Lindsay-Poland

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Public Records Reference # R016640-121921
John Lindsay-Poland:
The Sacramento Police Department has received your California Public Records Act request dated December 19, 2021 wherein you requested Records that identify equipment grants to law enforcement agencies within the area in which your Urban Areas Security Initiative (UASI) authority operates, approved since January 1, 2016, including grant application if available, that contain some or all of the following information:

Name of recipient or sub-recipient;
City or County of recipient/sub-recipient;
Summary description of equipment for which the grant was intended;
Dollar amount or value of grant, award, or sub-award;
Fiscal Year of federal funds from which grant originated;
Time period in which grant was to be executed.

The information we have received from the California Office of Emergency Services indicates that the following serve as UASI authorities or administrators within California:
Bay Area UASI;
City of Los Angeles;
City of Santa Ana, Homeland Security Division;
City of San Diego, Office of Homeland Security;
City of Riverside Office of Emergency Management;
Sacramento Police Department.. The Government Affairs Unit has begun researching and identifying records responsive to your request. Consequently, additional time is necessary to properly respond to your request due to the volume of materials required to be searched, collected, and examined for responsiveness (permitted under Government Code 6253 (c)(2)). We will notify you within fourteen (14) days as to whether the City is in possession of non-exempt records responsive to your request.
Thank you,
Sacramento Police Department
Government Affairs Unit
5770 Freeport Blvd., Suite 100
Sacramento, CA 95822 Sacramento Public Records Center

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Public Records Reference # R016640-121921
John Lindsay-Poland:
This letter is in response to your California Public Records Act request dated December 19, 2021 wherein you requested Records that identify equipment grants to law enforcement agencies within the area in which your Urban Areas Security Initiative (UASI) authority operates, approved since January 1, 2016, including grant application if available, that contain some or all of the following information:

Name of recipient or sub-recipient;
City or County of recipient/sub-recipient;
Summary description of equipment for which the grant was intended;
Dollar amount or value of grant, award, or sub-award;
Fiscal Year of federal funds from which grant originated;
Time period in which grant was to be executed.

The information we have received from the California Office of Emergency Services indicates that the following serve as UASI authorities or administrators within California:
Bay Area UASI;
City of Los Angeles;
City of Santa Ana, Homeland Security Division;
City of San Diego, Office of Homeland Security;
City of Riverside Office of Emergency Management;
Sacramento Police Department. for .
The Government Affairs Unit requires additional clarification in order to process your request. Per Government Code section 6253.1, a public agency shall assist members of the public in making a focused and effective public records act request that reasonably describes an identifiable record or records . Hello John, the time frame you are requesting records for, has the potential to yield an extensive amount of records therefore resulting in longer response times. Are you able to narrow the years for this request? A reply must be received within five (5) business days of the date this email was sent or your request will be closed and a new request will be required.

You can log into the system at Sacramento Public Records Center.
Thank you,
Sacramento Police Department
Government Affairs Unit
5770 Freeport Blvd., Suite 100
Sacramento, CA 95822

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Sacramento Police Department
PRA Office
5770 Freeport Boulevard
Sacramento, CA 95822
March 9, 2022
This is a follow up to request number R016640-121921:
Re: # R016640-121921
Dear Sacramento PD staff:
Thank you for your response and effort to clarify my request, in order to reduce the time needed to identify and review responsive records.
As you may have surmised from the wording of the request, we have submitted the same request to all UASIs in California, and are seeking uniform information from each. For that reason, I am reluctant to narrow the years for which we request records.
However, we are not requiring ALL documents that contain such information, IF the responsive records that are disclosed contain the information we are looking for, named in the request:
-Name of recipient or sub-recipient;
-City or County of recipient/sub-recipient;
-Summary description of equipment for which the grant was intended;
-Dollar amount or value of grant, award, or sub-award;
-Fiscal Year of federal funds from which grant originated;
-Time period in which grant was to be executed.
For example, if other documents disclosed contain this information, then contracts that also contain it would not be necessary.
I don't know how Sacramento PD keeps the UASI records. Bay Area UASI (which I recognize is bigger) publishes application documents in its Brown Acted meeting materials that outline the above information.
I understand that the Sacramento UASI got its first funding in FY2016, and that there is typically a lag time of 12-18 months between the fiscal year of allocation and the distribution of funds, so that this request likely applies to about four or five years of grants.
I also recognize that you may need an extension on the ten days permitted for response by the Public Records Act. Some other UASIs have requested 14-day extensions.
Feel free to contact me if by phone at 510-282-8983 or through this email if you have other clarifying questions.
best,
John Lindsay-Poland
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