Coronavirus response and homelessness (Department of Public Health)

Dana Sniezko filed this request with the Department of Public Health of San Francisco, CA.
Tracking #

20-2057

Multi Request Coronavirus response and homelessness
Status
Completed

Communications

From: Dana Sniezko

To Whom It May Concern:

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

Documents created from February 15, 2020 to the date this request is processed related to novel coronavirus (Covid, Coronavirus, COVID-19, SARS-CoV-2) and the housing, quarantine, or isolation of homeless or vulnerable persons on public or private property, including at shelters, convention centers, stadiums, hotels, apartments, tents, trailers (RVs, recreational vehicles, campers), parks, piers, ships, other structures or locations.

Please search specifically for:

1) Communications (including electronic communications) between agency head, officials, employees, agents, or volunteers, sent intra-department or to other government agencies, private corporations, organizations, or individuals.

2) Acquisition and Contract documents, including requests for proposals (RFPs), proposals/quotes submitted by vendors, contracts, leases, budget requests, project/equipment budgets, cost allocations or reimbursements, insurance contracts, memorandums of understanding (MOUs), memorandums of agreement (MOAs) or any other agreements with other government agencies, private corporations, organizations or individuals.

3) Meetings. Records generated from meetings on this matter including notes, minutes, or attendance records.

4) Policies documents, including guidelines, protocols, directives, opinions, charts, diagrams, training manuals and/or instructions.

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,

Dana Sniezko

From: Department of Public Health

City and County of San Francisco

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Hi there

Your first City and County of San Francisco record request (request number #20-2057) has been submitted.
It is currently unpublished and is not available for the general public to view.

Request #20-2057.

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From: Department of Public Health

City and County of San Francisco

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Hi there

A message was sent to you regarding record request #20-2057:

We are acknowledging your Public Records request that we received. In light of the global coronavirus pandemic, including declared State and local San Francisco emergencies, this effort will involve use of scarce public resources. City staff are currently deployed to perform emergency services and/or may be working remotely without access to the records that need review.

Therefore, this is to advise that due to and during the emergency, DPH’s document production may be slower than during the ordinary course of business. DPH will use its best efforts to produce responsive non-exempt records as quickly as possible and will produce records on an incremental or rolling basis. This complies with the common law rule of reason applicable to public records act responses.  (Bruce v. Gregory (1967) 65 Cal.2d 666, 673; Rosenthal v. Hansen (1973) 34 Cal.App.3d 754 (applying rule of reason).)

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From: Department of Public Health

City and County of San Francisco

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Hi there

A message was sent to you regarding record request #20-2057:

Hi Dana,

Please help us identify keywords and a time frame to conduct a proper search for records. Without your help of narrowing the scope, this request is too broad and voluminous to conduct in a timely manner.

Thanks.

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From: Dana Sniezko

Hello,

As I indicated in my original request, I am requesting communications (such as emails), policy documents, and meeting notes from DPH, February 15, 2020 through May.

If you can search for documents that contain keywords for both:

coronavirus (keywords: Coronavirus, COVID-19, SARS-CoV-2, covid)
AND
homelessness (keywords: homelessness, homeless, unhoused, tents, encampment)

That may be sufficient for my purposes.

Best,
Dana

From: Department of Public Health

City and County of San Francisco

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Hi there

Record request #20-2057 has been closed. The closure reason supplied was:

We did not hear back from you when we asked for more clarification about your request. Since we are unable to conduct a diligent search for responsive records without your guidance, we consider your request closed. If you are still interested in your request, you are welcome to submit a new request with more details at any time here: https://sanfrancisco.nextrequest.com/requests/new

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From: Department of Public Health

City and County of San Francisco

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Record request #20-2057 has been reopened. You can see it anytime at the link below.

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From: Department of Public Health

City and County of San Francisco

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Documents have been released for record request #20-2057 along with the following message:

We have conducted a diligent search for records responsive to your request. We have located responsive records, which are available to you here. Due to the need to continue reviewing, we will produce any additional responsive records on a rolling basis.

* Guidance-Shelter-Navigation-chinese.pdf

* Guidance-Shelter-Navigation-spanish.pdf

* Guidance-Shelter-Navigation-tagalog.pdf

* SIP Hotel - Operations Manual &amp; Guidance Updated 201216.pdf

Document links are valid for one month.
After June 24, you will need to sign in to view the document(s).

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From: Department of Public Health

City and County of San Francisco

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A message was sent to you regarding record request #20-2057:

Requester,

We received your follow up message regarding this request and have initiated a new search for responsive records. We will review and provide any responsive records on a rolling basis.

Please note, regarding item #2 on your request list—for contract documents—we are only able to search for and produce records under the control of San Francisco Department of Public Health. Other departments may hold additional records responsive to your request, so we suggest you consider contacting the Human Services Agency via this hsasunshine@sfgov.org.

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From: Department of Public Health

City and County of San Francisco

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A document has been released for record request #20-2057 along with the following message:

We have conducted a diligent search for records responsive to your request. We have located responsive records, which are available to you here. Due to the need to continue reviewing, we will produce any additional responsive records on a rolling basis.

* SitStatReports.pdf

Document links are valid for one month.
After July 7, you will need to sign in to view the document(s).

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From: Department of Public Health

City and County of San Francisco

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Documents have been released for record request #20-2057 along with the following message:

We have conducted a diligent search for records responsive to your request. We have located responsive records, which are available to you here. Due to the need to continue reviewing, we will produce any additional responsive records on a rolling basis.

* BOS COVID update 2.28.22.pdf

* BOS COVID update 3.7.22.pdf

* BOS COVID update 3.14.22.pdf

Document links are valid for one month.
After July 23, you will need to sign in to view the document(s).

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From: Department of Public Health

City and County of San Francisco

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A message was sent to you regarding record request #20-2057:

Retracted/deleted 3 records that were erroneously uploaded to the wrong NextRequest case number. Apologies

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From: Department of Public Health

City and County of San Francisco

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Documents have been released for record request #20-2057 along with the following message:

We have conducted a diligent search for records responsive to your request. We have located responsive records, which are available to you here. Please note that due to privacy concerns, some personal information, such as personal phone numbers, cell numbers and email addresses, have been redacted from the documents that we are making available to you. We redacted this personal information pursuant to Section 6254(c) and Section 6254(k) of the California Public Records Act and Article 1, Section 1 of the California Constitution.

Due to the need to continue reviewing, we will produce any additional responsive records on a rolling basis.

* COVID19-Home-IQ-Guidelines-and-Directives-Packet-FINAL-5.1.2020.pdf

* Emailsbatch1_20-2057_Redacted.pdf

Document links are valid for one month.
After July 23, you will need to sign in to view the document(s).

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From: Department of Public Health

City and County of San Francisco

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Documents have been released for record request #20-2057:

* Guidance-Shelter-Navigation-chinese.pdf

* Guidance-Shelter-Navigation-spanish.pdf

* Guidance-Shelter-Navigation-tagalog.pdf

* SIP Hotel - Operations Manual &amp; Guidance Updated 201216.pdf

* SitStatReports.pdf

* COVID19-Home-IQ-Guidelines-and-Directives-Packet-FINAL-5.1.2020.pdf

* Emailsbatch1_20-2057_Redacted.pdf

Document links are valid for one month.
After October 12, you will need to sign in to view the document(s).

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From: Department of Public Health

City and County of San Francisco

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Record request #20-2057 has been published and is now available for public view.

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From: Department of Public Health

City and County of San Francisco

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Documents have been released for record request #20-2057 along with the following message:

We have conducted a diligent search for records responsive to your request. We have located responsive records, which are available to you here. Due to the need to continue reviewing, we will produce any additional responsive records on a rolling basis.

* Doc.pdf

* Fw_ Latest Shelter_PEH Draft for Review.pdf

* Fw_ PEH decisions at 11am Policy Meeting- 4.14.20.pdf

* Re_ Questions for 11am Policy Meeting- 4.24.20 - Follow-up.pdf

* Re_ Questions for 11am Policy Meeting- 4.22.20 - Follow-up.pdf

* Re_ Shelter_Navigation Center Guideline Draft.pdf

* Update on my To Do list.pdf

Document links are valid for one month.
After October 13, you will need to sign in to view the document(s).

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From: Department of Public Health

City and County of San Francisco

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Documents have been released for record request #20-2057 along with the following message:

DPH has redacted portions of the attached files which contain confidential personnel records protected by the California Constitutional right of privacy. (See, Cal. Const. Art. I §1; Hill v. National Collegiate Athletic Assn., (1994) 7 Cal.4th 1, 35 (identifying privacy interest in precluding dissemination of sensitive, confidential information); Teamsters Local 856 v. Priceless, LLC, (2003) 112 Cal.App.4th 1500, 1512 (public employees have a right to privacy in their personnel files).) This record is also a personal record the disclosure of which would constitute an unwarranted invasion of personal privacy under state law. (See (California Government Code § 6254(c) (protecting "[p]ersonnel, medical or similar files, the disclosure of which would constitute an unwarranted invasion of personal privacy"), and § 6254(k) (protecting records which are "exempted or prohibited pursuant to provisions of federal or state law" from disclosure); see also S.F. Admin. § 67.1(g).)

* Re_ Policy Meeting- 4.15.20.pdf

* Questions for 11am Policy Meeting- 4.15.20_Redacted.pdf

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After October 26, you will need to sign in to view the document(s).

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From: Department of Public Health

City and County of San Francisco

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Record request #20-2057 has been closed and published. The closure reason supplied was:

The Department of Public Health has conducted a diligent search for records responsive to your request. We have located responsive records, which are available to you here. This concludes your public records request.

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