Calendars and Emails - Immediate Disclosure Request (SF HSA)
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Submitted | Dec. 16, 2019 |
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From: twitter.com/journo_anon Public Records Requester
Department Head,
Attached is an Immediate Disclosure Request (SF Admin Code 67.25(a)).
Your response is required by Dec. 17, 2019. Rolling records responses are requested (67.25(d)).
NOTE: Please be certain you have properly redacted all of your responses. Once you send them to us, there is no going back. The email address sending this request is a publicly- viewable mailbox. All of your responses (including all responsive records) may be instantly and automatically available to the public online via the MuckRock.com FOIA service used to issue this request (though the requester is an anonymous user, not a representative of MuckRock). Nothing herein is legal, IT, or professional advice of any kind. The author disclaims all warranties, express or implied, including but not limited to all warranties of merchantability or fitness. In no event shall the author be liable for any special, direct, indirect, consequential, or any other damages whatsoever. The digital signature, if any, in this email is not an indication of a binding agreement or offer; it merely authenticates the sender. Please do not include any confidential information, as I intend that these communications with the City all be public records.
Sincerely,
Anonymous
From: Human Services Agency
Good Afternoon,
Attached please find public records responsive to your Immediate Disclosure Request.
These records are being produced in PDF format and requested metadata is being withheld to protect the integrity and security of the original record and to avoid the unwarranted disclosure of data that could pose a risk to the city's systems and network and/or the inadvertent disclosure of exempt confidential or privileged information. See Cal. Gov. Code Secs. 6253.9 (a)(1), (f); 6254.19.
Private phone numbers and secure passcodes have been redacted pursuant to the "official information" privilege under Cal. Evidence Code Sec. 1040.
There are no responsive records to Items 6 & 7 because the Department Head does not use a personal email for City business.
Thanks,
Patrice Brown, #S230
(415)503-4808
From: twitter.com/journo_anon Public Records Requester
RE: BCC Emails - Immediate Disclosure Request
Department Head:
Below are new Immediate Disclosure Requests (SF Admin Code 67.25(a)) directed to your agency and the department head. Your response is required by Feb 11, 2020. Rolling records responses are requested (SFAC 67.25(d)) if you are unable to immediately produce records. Exact copies of every responsive record are requested (Gov Code 6253(b)) - do not: provide mere URLs, print and scan electronic records, convert native files to PDFs, or provide black and white versions of any color record. Provide only copies of records not requiring fees and in-person inspection of all other records (GC 6253). Emails are requested in the easily-generated EML or MSG formats (SFAC 67.21(l)).
I am now auditing how the City appears to unlawfully withhold the BCC recipients of emails when they print out emails in certain formats. The identity of BCC recipients is not exempt. BCC is not an information security record that reveals vulnerabilities or increases chance of an attack. The BCC names was typed in by a human being and are not metadata. You must provide BCC just like you provide To or CC recipients. There is no legal authority to keep secret the identities of persons communicating with government officials, unless they are specifically confidential informants and such. If you withhold the BCC names, I will file complaints, separate and apart from email metadata complaints (which I have now already won, see ruling in SOTF 19044).
Your non-exhaustive obligations: All withholding of any information must be justified in writing (SFAC 67.27). All withholdings by masking or deletion (aka redactions) must be keyed by footnote or other clear reference to the specific justification for that redaction, and only the minimal exempt portion of any record may be withheld (SFAC 67.26). You must respond to emailed requests (SFAC 67.21(b)). You must notify us of whether or not responsive records exist and/or were withheld for each below request (Gov Code 6253(c), 6255(b)). You must state the name and title of each person responsible for withholding any information (Gov Code 6253(d)). Do not impose any end-user restrictions upon me (Santa Clara Co. vs Superior Ct, 170 Cal.App 4th 1301); so if you use a third-party website to publish records, please make them completely public without any login or sign-in.
Your agency must do all of the above things in your response, and you cannot wait until we file complaints.
****** We have no duty to, and we will not again, remind the City of its obligations. Instead, we will file complaints for every Sunshine Ordinance or CPRA violation. We will continue to file complaints until the City's procedures are modified to fully comply with the Sunshine Ordinance and CPRA, without caveat or exception. ******
1. An exact copy with all email headers (incl. but not limited to the BCC identities), attachments, color, formatting, hyperlinks, images, and all other parts of the record of the most recent 5 emails which have any BCC recipients which were sent by your Dept Head on any government account . Note that you will have to search directly from the person's computer or account in their Sent folder specifically (In many email systems, no other method will allow you to see the BCC recipients). In modern Outlook systems, the search query is as follows: (bcc:*)
Do not destroy or discard any responsive records - we will appeal all withholdings or Sunshine violations.
NOTE: Please be certain you have properly redacted all of your responses. Once you send them to us, there is no going back. The email address sending this request is a publicly- viewable mailbox. All of your responses (including all responsive records) may be instantly and automatically available to the public online via the MuckRock.com FOIA service used to issue this request (though the requester is an anonymous user, not a representative of MuckRock). Nothing herein is legal, IT, or professional advice of any kind. The author disclaims all warranties, express or implied, including but not limited to all warranties of merchantability or fitness. In no event shall the author be liable for any special, direct, indirect, consequential, or any other damages whatsoever. The digital signature, if any, in this email is not an indication of a binding agreement or offer; it merely authenticates the sender. Please do not include any confidential information, as I intend that these communications with the City all be disclosable public records.
Sincerely,
Anonymous
From: Human Services Agency
I am currently out of the office.
I will return on Tuesday 2/11/2020 in the morning and respond to your email.
For records requests, please email hsasunshine@sfgov.org. If this is an urgent matter, please call Patrice Brown at (415) 503-4808.
CCSF-HSA - All outbound HSA email is automatically scanned for PII and PHI by Zix Email Encryption
From: Human Services Agency
Good Afternoon,
This is in response to your request for written justifications for withholding certain information from the Calendar and emails for Department Head Trent Rhorer, previously provided in December 2019.
In one instance, a personal cell phone number was redacted on privacy grounds. Redactions are based on California Constitution, Article I, section 1, and California Government Code Section 6254(k); and California Government Code Section 6254(c). These provisions guard against disclosure of information that would invade personal privacy. Further, both the California Public Records Act (California Government Code Section 6250) and the San Francisco Sunshine Ordinance (San Francisco Administrative Code Section 67.1(g)) acknowledge the importance of protecting personal privacy where disclosing records in response to a public records request.
The other redactions were to withhold specific pin numbers used to access conference call lines. Conference call numbers were provided so as to minimize these redactions. The specific pin numbers or access codes were withheld California Government Code Section 6254 and California Evidence Code 1040, which conditionally privileges non-public information when the necessity for preserving confidentiality outweighs the necessity for disclosure.
Also, no BCC names were withheld or redacted in the documents previously provided.
Sincerely,
Patrice Brown, #S230
(415)503-4808
From: twitter.com/journo_anon Public Records Requester
I think you made a mistake, I sent a new Feb 8 request that is due today. It is separate from the old one.
1. An exact copy with all email headers (incl. but not limited to the BCC identities), attachments, color, formatting, hyperlinks, images, and all other parts of the record of the most recent 5 emails which have any BCC recipients which were sent by your Dept Head on any government account . Note that you will have to search directly from the person's computer or account in their Sent folder specifically (In many email systems, no other method will allow you to see the BCC recipients). In modern Outlook systems, the search query is as follows: (bcc:*)
NOTE: Please be certain you have properly redacted all of your responses. Once you send them to us, there is no going back. The email address sending this request is a publicly- viewable mailbox. All of your responses (including all responsive records) may be instantly and automatically available to the public online via the MuckRock.com FOIA service used to issue this request (though the requester is an anonymous user, not a representative of MuckRock). Nothing herein is legal, IT, or professional advice of any kind. The author disclaims all warranties, express or implied, including but not limited to all warranties of merchantability or fitness. In no event shall the author be liable for any special, direct, indirect, consequential, or any other damages whatsoever. The digital signature, if any, in this email is not an indication of a binding agreement or offer; it merely authenticates the sender. Please do not include any confidential information, as I intend that these communications with the City all be disclosable public records.
Sincerely,
Anonymous
From: Human Services Agency
Pursuant to San Francisco Administrative Code Section 67.25(b) and the California Government Code Section 6253(c), the need to consult with another interested department warrants an extension of up to 14 days from the original due date of February 11, 2020 for the Agency's response.
We will now respond to your request no later than February 25, 2020, if not earlier.
Thanks,
Patrice Brown, #S230
(415)503-4808
From: Human Services Agency
Good Afternoon,
After a thorough search, we have concluded that there are no emails/ documents that would satisfy this request.
Thanks,
Patrice Brown, #S230
(415)503-4808
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