Police complaints data (San Antonio Police Department)

Samuel Sinyangwe filed this request with the San Antonio Police Department of San Antonio, TX.
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W315107-041520

Multi Request Police complaints data
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From: Samuel Sinyangwe

To Whom It May Concern:

Pursuant to the Texas Public Information Act, I hereby request the following records:

1. The total number of civilian complaints reported in 2016, 2017, 2018, and 2019 (totals separated by year)
2. The total number of civilian complaints sustained in 2016, 2017, 2018, and 2019 (totals separated by year)

Please only include statistics reflecting the number of civilian complaints, not internal/departmental complaints.

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, as the statute requires.

Sincerely,

Samuel Sinyangwe

From: San Antonio Police Department

Dear Samuel Sinyangwe:


COVID-19 NOTICE
Due to the COVID-19 pandemic, the Governor of Texas declared a public health emergency and disaster and issued an Executive Order for people to "Stay Home" to mitigate the spread of the virus and protect the health and safety of Texans by limiting gathering and restricting work activities to those that are essential and support critical infrastructure.  City of San Antonio administrative departments are closed to in-person contact.  Many departments are on skeleton crews while remaining staff is working remotely or is present but involved directly in the public health or epidemic response.  Too Few Employees have the access necessary to respond to public information requests at this time.  Therefore in accordance with the guidance issued by the Office of the Texas Attorney General, this is not a "business day" for the purpose of Chapter 552 of the Texas Government Code, the Public Information Act, and all PIA-related processes are currently paused.

From: San Antonio Police Department

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To Samuel Sinyangwe, Please be advised that the City of San Antonio does not monitor requests that have been closed.  If a requestor desires to seek additional information, we recommend the creation of a new request (please visit the Open Records Center).  If you have further questions, please contact open records staff for City requests and SAPD Open Records for Police requests.
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From: San Antonio Police Department

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City of San Antonio 06/23/2020
Via Email Samuel Sinyangwe

MuckRock News DEPT MR 91666
Somerville, MA 02144

RE:    Response to Public Information Request

COSA ORR No: W315107-041520

Dear Samuel Sinyangwe:

This letter responds to your request for information to the City of San Antonio, dated and received in our office on 4/15/2020 10:36:12 PM.

Information Requested: Police Records Request - To Whom It May Concern:

Pursuant to the Texas Public Information Act, I hereby request the following records:

1. The total number of civilian complaints reported in 2016, 2017, 2018, and 2019 (totals separated by year)
2. The total number of civilian complaints sustained in 2016, 2017, 2018, and 2019 (totals separated by year)

Please only include statistics reflecting the number of civilian complaints, not internal/departmental complaints.

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, as the statute requires.

Sincerely,

Samuel Sinyangwe

Upload documents directly: https://https://www.muckrock.comhttps://www.muckrock.com/
Please see the following link for information on complaints made to the San Antonio Police Department within the Open Data tab for the Internal Affair Annual Reports that date from 2014 thru 2019.  You will find the statistical data that you seek within these files.  Please be advised that this information is for all complaints, not specific to civilian.  Here is the link: https://www.sanantonio.gov/SAPD/SAPD-Open-Data-Initiative#182281929-open-data (https://u8387778.ct.sendgrid.net/ls/click?upn=6HtRfOYLt5fXvpttM-2FU1Hdokebk3xqbyGySCEwzN09OARrrvlImvpp8AXKdI-2Fk2nLK2duB4ISN5FBDyauSvkGHKgUbkEBQ1iNebR12K3mzPPKsnn9Q-2BW4Qp-2Bw7S1AgPi_pxS_oqVZW8PVcD44QqYFWmljk2dr0cn8IayG9786uIzPlVD-2Foe0i3ISIKDFnp9nq1I4I9eR5fj4lhb0ge-2BESKMf6vIre8Un7SbtWM8Rdiw2oQk1EQYXKJf4Rry8TzoWcpYkODaehHrfWr7u5-2B3gRfjvGnu-2FN7ujvsgtHah8cd69I4Tg0rVKW7-2F1G5bxpUR85qYyQ-2BHMQCOrxDjHujENPXqz-2BbgTk-2FPtqgESw08ij2gLKTgraTuWW8LSgsCja8SieoPswLiLSYdjbUx-2BkcvXjXHKZxR7u9GFxcn5uzuF-2FyaJNm5bvZ2blXgVQGnky7OTC40iKNk3Z-2Fsewi8onmMpgwGkSm-2BLvoiqXA9j5qloAscXfP6Apkym-2B1eHbayu0RAtUz62u) Again, see the Internal Affairs Annual Reports within the above listed link for the details.  I hope you will find this information to successfully complete this request. Sincerely, San Antonio Police Department
Open Records

From: Samuel Sinyangwe

Hi, thanks for sending this. However, I'm requesting the numbers specifically for civilian complaints. Can you provide these numbers?

Thank you,

Sam

From: San Antonio Police Department

All of the data you are seeking is at this link, under the open data tab.

See Internal Affairs Annual Report 2016, 2017, 2018, 2019 and 2020.
https://www.sanantonio.gov/SAPD/SAPD-Open-Data-Initiative#182281929-open-data

Mariah Medina
Public Affairs Manager
Email: mariah.medina@sanantonio.gov<mailto:mariah.medina@sanantonio.gov>
Desk: 210-207-7536
Office: 210-207-7579
Cell: 210-461-3312

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From: Samuel Sinyangwe

Hi, thanks for sending these reports. While these reports cover the first part of my request (the number of complaints), they do not indicate how many complaints were sustained each year. Can you please send that information?

Thank you,

Sam

From: San Antonio Police Department

To whom it may concern. Please see the below email that was sent on 6/23/2020.

Thank you.

Sgt. Washington Moscoso #3104
San Antonio Police Department
Police Media Services Supervisor
315 S Santa Rosa Avenue
San Antonio, Texas 78207
Office 210-207-7579

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"From: Linda Flores (SAPD)
Sent: Monday, October 03, 2022 11:56 AM
To: Washington Moscoso (SAPD) <Washington.Moscoso@sanantonio.gov>
Cc: SAPD PIO <SAPDPIO@sanantonio.gov>
Subject: RE: [EXTERNAL] RE: Texas Public Information Act Request #W315107-041520

Yes Sir. This request was closed on 6/23/2020 with the following response referring them to the open data initiative tab on the SAPD website:

Date

On 6/23/2020 10:28:56 AM, System Generated Message to Samuel Sinyangwe (requests@muckrock.com):

Subject: Open Records Request Completed Notice :: W315107-041520
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This is an automatically generated message, please do not respond.

To Samuel Sinyangwe,

Please be advised that the City of San Antonio does not monitor requests that have been closed. If a requestor desires to seek additional information, we recommend the creation of a new request (please visit the Open Records Center). If you have further questions, please contact open records staff for City requests and SAPD Open Records for Police requests.

City of San Antonio

On 6/23/2020 10:28:32 AM, Linda Flores wrote to Samuel Sinyangwe (requests@muckrock.com):

Subject: Police Records Request :: W315107-041520
Body:

City of San Antonio

06/23/2020

Via Email


Samuel Sinyangwe
MuckRock News DEPT MR 91666
Somerville, MA 02144

RE: Response to Public Information Request

COSA ORR No: W315107-041520

Dear Samuel Sinyangwe:

This letter responds to your request for information to the City of San Antonio, dated and received in our office on 4/15/2020 10:36:12 PM.

Information Requested: Police Records Request - To Whom It May Concern:

Pursuant to the Texas Public Information Act, I hereby request the following records:

1. The total number of civilian complaints reported in 2016, 2017, 2018, and 2019 (totals separated by year)
2. The total number of civilian complaints sustained in 2016, 2017, 2018, and 2019 (totals separated by year)

Please only include statistics reflecting the number of civilian complaints, not internal/departmental complaints.

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, as the statute requires.

Sincerely,

Samuel Sinyangwe

Upload documents directly: https://https://www.muckrock.comhttps://www.muckrock.com/

Please see the following link for information on complaints made to the San Antonio Police Department within the Open Data tab for the Internal Affair Annual Reports that date from 2014 thru 2019. You will find the statistical data that you seek within these files. Please be advised that this information is for all complaints, not specific to civilian. Here is the link:

https://www.sanantonio.gov/SAPD/SAPD-Open-Data-Initiative#182281929-open-data

Again, see the Internal Affairs Annual Reports within the above listed link for the details. I hope you will find this information to successfully complete this request.

Sincerely,

San Antonio Police Department

Open Records

Thank you. -Linda

From: Washington Moscoso (SAPD) <Washington.Moscoso@sanantonio.gov>
Sent: Monday, October 3, 2022 11:49 AM
To: Linda Flores (SAPD) <Linda.Flores@sanantonio.gov>
Cc: SAPD PIO <SAPDPIO@sanantonio.gov>
Subject: FW: [EXTERNAL] RE: Texas Public Information Act Request #W315107-041520

Linda,

Please see the email below, following up on an ORR Request from 4/15/2020

Thank you

From: requests@muckrock.com <requests@muckrock.com>
Sent: Monday, October 03, 2022 12:06 AM
To: SAPD PIO <SAPDPIO@sanantonio.gov>
Cc: SAPD PIO <SAPDPIO@sanantonio.gov>
Subject: [EXTERNAL] RE: Texas Public Information Act Request #W315107-041520

San Antonio Police Department
Texas Public Information Act Office
315 South Santa Rosa Avenue
San Antonio, TX 78207

October 3, 2022

This is a follow up to request number W315107-041520:

To Whom It May Concern:

I wanted to follow up on the following Texas Public Information Act request, copied below, and originally submitted on April 15, 2020. Please let me know when I can expect to receive a response. You had assigned it reference number #W315107-041520.

Thanks for your help, and let me know if further clarification is needed.

View request history, upload responsive documents, and report problems here:
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For mailed responses, please address (see note):
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Boston, MA 02115

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 July 13, 2021:
Subject: RE: Texas Public Information Act Request #W315107-041520
Hi, thanks for sending these reports. While these reports cover the first part of my request (the number of complaints), they do not indicate how many complaints were sustained each year. Can you please send that information?

Thank you,

Sam
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On July 12, 2021:
Subject: RE: [EXTERNAL] RE: Texas Public Information Act Request #W315107-041520
All of the data you are seeking is at this link, under the open data tab.

See Internal Affairs Annual Report 2016, 2017, 2018, 2019 and 2020.
https://www.sanantonio.gov/SAPD/SAPD-Open-Data-Initiative#182281929-open-data

Mariah Medina
Public Affairs Manager
Email: mariah.medina@sanantonio.gov<mailto:mariah.medina@sanantonio.gov>
Desk: 210-207-7536
Office: 210-207-7579
Cell: 210-461-3312

[Email Graphic]
Evil Triumphs When Good Men do Nothing
CONFIDENTIALITY NOTICE: This electronic transmission and any attachments constitute confidential information, which is intended only for the named recipient(s) and may be legally privileged. If you have received this communication in error please contact the sender below immediately. Any disclosure, copying, distribution or the taking of any action concerning the contents of this communication by anyone other than the named recipient(s) is strictly prohibited. Sender: Mariah Medina, San Antonio Police Department, 315 S. Santa Rosa, San Antonio, Texas 78207

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On June 24, 2020:
Subject: RE: Texas Public Information Act Request #W315107-041520
Hi, thanks for sending this. However, I'm requesting the numbers specifically for civilian complaints. Can you provide these numbers?

Thank you,

Sam
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On June 23, 2020:
Subject: Police Records Request :: W315107-041520
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City of San Antonio 06/23/2020
Via Email Samuel Sinyangwe

MuckRock News DEPT MR 91666
Somerville, MA 02144

RE: Response to Public Information Request

COSA ORR No: W315107-041520

Dear Samuel Sinyangwe:

This letter responds to your request for information to the City of San Antonio, dated and received in our office on 4/15/2020 10:36:12 PM.

Information Requested: Police Records Request - To Whom It May Concern:

Pursuant to the Texas Public Information Act, I hereby request the following records:

1. The total number of civilian complaints reported in 2016, 2017, 2018, and 2019 (totals separated by year)
2. The total number of civilian complaints sustained in 2016, 2017, 2018, and 2019 (totals separated by year)

Please only include statistics reflecting the number of civilian complaints, not internal/departmental complaints.

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, as the statute requires.

Sincerely,

Samuel Sinyangwe

Upload documents directly: https://https://www.muckrock.comhttps://www.muckrock.com/
Please see the following link for information on complaints made to the San Antonio Police Department within the Open Data tab for the Internal Affair Annual Reports that date from 2014 thru 2019. You will find the statistical data that you seek within these files. Please be advised that this information is for all complaints, not specific to civilian. Here is the link: https://www.sanantonio.gov/SAPD/SAPD-Open-Data-Initiative#182281929-open-data (https://u8387778.ct.sendgrid.net/ls/click?upn=6HtRfOYLt5fXvpttM-2FU1Hdokebk3xqbyGySCEwzN09OARrrvlImvpp8AXKdI-2Fk2nLK2duB4ISN5FBDyauSvkGHKgUbkEBQ1iNebR12K3mzPPKsnn9Q-2BW4Qp-2Bw7S1AgPi_pxS_oqVZW8PVcD44QqYFWmljk2dr0cn8IayG9786uIzPlVD-2Foe0i3ISIKDFnp9nq1I4I9eR5fj4lhb0ge-2BESKMf6vIre8Un7SbtWM8Rdiw2oQk1EQYXKJf4Rry8TzoWcpYkODaehHrfWr7u5-2B3gRfjvGnu-2FN7ujvsgtHah8cd69I4Tg0rVKW7-2F1G5bxpUR85qYyQ-2BHMQCOrxDjHujENPXqz-2BbgTk-2FPtqgESw08ij2gLKTgraTuWW8LSgsCja8SieoPswLiLSYdjbUx-2BkcvXjXHKZxR7u9GFxcn5uzuF-2FyaJNm5bvZ2blXgVQGnky7OTC40iKNk3Z-2Fsewi8onmMpgwGkSm-2BLvoiqXA9j5qloAscXfP6Apkym-2B1eHbayu0RAtUz62u) Again, see the Internal Affairs Annual Reports within the above listed link for the details. I hope you will find this information to successfully complete this request. Sincerely, San Antonio Police Department
Open Records
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On June 23, 2020:
Subject: Open Records Request Completed Notice :: W315107-041520
This is an automatically generated message, please do not respond.
To Samuel Sinyangwe, Please be advised that the City of San Antonio does not monitor requests that have been closed. If a requestor desires to seek additional information, we recommend the creation of a new request (please visit the Open Records Center). If you have further questions, please contact open records staff for City requests and SAPD Open Records for Police requests.
City of San Antonio
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On April 14, 2020:
Subject: Texas Public Information Act Request: Police complaints data (San Antonio Police Department)

To Whom It May Concern:

Pursuant to the Texas Public Information Act, I hereby request the following records:

1. The total number of civilian complaints reported in 2016, 2017, 2018, and 2019 (totals separated by year)
2. The total number of civilian complaints sustained in 2016, 2017, 2018, and 2019 (totals separated by year)

Please only include statistics reflecting the number of civilian complaints, not internal/departmental complaints.

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, as the statute requires.

Sincerely,

Samuel Sinyangwe

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

If prompted for a passcode, please enter:
••••••••

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

PLEASE NOTE OUR NEW ADDRESS
For mailed responses, please address (see note):
MuckRock News
DEPT MR 91666
263 Huntington Ave
Boston, MA 02115

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.

**THIS EMAIL IS FROM AN EXTERNAL SENDER OUTSIDE OF THE CITY.**

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From: Samuel Sinyangwe

Hi, thanks for sending these internal affairs reports. However, as you noted, these reports don't specify how many complaints reported each year were civilian complaints. Can you please send me the total number of *civilian* complaints specifically each year?

Thanks,

Sam

From: San Antonio Police Department

We have sent you what we have on this, and closed out this request. Thank you.

Sgt. Washington Moscoso #3104
San Antonio Police Department
Police Media Services Supervisor
315 S Santa Rosa Avenue
San Antonio, Texas 78207
Office 210-207-7579

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