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Coronavirus/COVID-19/SARS-CoV-2 Response (San Francisco) Immediate Disclosure Request

twitter.com/journo_anon Public Records Requester filed this request with the Department of Public Health of San Francisco, CA.

It is a clone of this request.

Tracking #

20-1076

20-1076, 20-1078

20-1076

Est. Completion Aug. 23, 2022
Status
Partially Completed
Tags

Communications

From: twitter.com/journo_anon Public Records Requester

SFDPH:

NOTE: THE EMAIL ADDRESS SENDING THIS REQUEST IS A PUBLICLY-VIEWABLE MAILBOX. Please be certain you have properly redacted all of your responses. Once you send them to us, there is no going back. 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.

Below are new Immediate Disclosure Requests (SF Admin Code 67.25(a)) directed to your agency and its department head.
Your initial response is required by March 2, 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)). Provide only copies of records not requiring fees and in-person inspection of all other records (GC 6253).

Your non-exhaustive obligations:
- All withholding of any information must be justified in writing by specific statutory authority (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. All communications with CDC or its employees (email, text, or chat) with any of the following insensitive keywords: "coronavirus" "wuhan" "SARS" "COVID" "COVID19" "COVID-19" "SARS-CoV-2" "2019-nCOV" "nCOV" "severe acute respiratory syndrome" "viral pneumonia" "pneumonia of unknown origin" "novel pneumonia" from Nov 14, 2019 to present. For solely this request, any format showing all participants (TO, FROM, CC; and BCC for items sent by City employees) and preserving the body, attachments and images is sufficient.

2. All communications to or from the California DPH or its employees (email, text, or chat) with any of the following insensitive keywords: "coronavirus" "wuhan" "SARS" "COVID" "COVID19" "COVID-19" "SARS-CoV-2" "2019-nCOV" "nCOV" "severe acute respiratory syndrome" "viral pneumonia" "pneumonia of unknown origin" "novel pneumonia" from Nov 14, 2019 to present. For solely this request, any format showing all participants (TO, FROM, CC; and BCC for items sent by City employees) and preserving the body, attachments and images is sufficient.

This information is of the highest public interest. You may prioritize this request over any other outstanding Sunshine requests from me, if it would speed up your response to this one.
You may exclude press releases or similar material already published to the general public. If you believe this query would take more than say a week to produce, please provide suggestions to narrow the query to match my purpose, which is: to determine the scope and quality of Federal, state, and local government response to COVID-19/SARS-CoV-2, most importantly including decisions to test or not to test PUIs or other suspect cases.

Do not destroy or discard any responsive records - we will appeal all withholdings or Sunshine violations.

Thank you for your anticipated cooperation in this matter.

Sincerely,
Anonymous

From: twitter.com/journo_anon Public Records Requester

I am expecting you to provide all of the Feb 28, 2020 information requested that is immediately available by March 2, 2020 CoB that you have. You cannot use maximum deadlines to delay providing an incremental response with whatever you have available; there is no legal reason to delay. Immediate appeals will be filed if you attempt to withhold or delay any information (except for patient privacy).

Also, these are further immediate disclosure requests:
3. Any records of the number of tests available for COVID-19/SARS-CoV-2 testing from CDC.
4. Any records of the COVID-19/SARS-CoV-2 test procedures, manuals, contents, or the conditions suspect cases must meet to be tested (including any communications from CDC regarding this)

Above are new Immediate Disclosure Requests (SF Admin Code 67.25(a)) directed to your agency and its department head.
Your initial response is required by March 3, 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)). Provide only copies of records not requiring fees and in-person inspection of all other records (GC 6253).

Your non-exhaustive obligations:
- All withholding of any information must be justified in writing by specific statutory authority (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. ******

This information is of the highest public interest. You may prioritize requests from this email address over any other outstanding Sunshine requests from me, if it would speed up your response to these. If you believe this query would take more than say a week to produce, please provide suggestions to narrow the query to match my purpose, which is: to determine the scope and quality of Federal, state, and local government response to COVID-19/SARS-CoV-2, most importantly including decisions to test or not to test PUIs or other suspect cases.

Do not destroy or discard any responsive records - we will appeal all withholdings or Sunshine violations.

Thank you for your anticipated cooperation in this matter.

NOTE: THE EMAIL ADDRESS SENDING THIS REQUEST IS A PUBLICLY-VIEWABLE MAILBOX. Please be certain you have properly redacted all of your responses. Once you send them to us, there is no going back. 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: twitter.com/journo_anon Public Records Requester

Please file a new complaint.

Anonymous v Public Health

An immediate disclosure request was filed before start of business day on Feb 28, 2020. (See below) No response was received today by close of business. When they respond I may need to allege improper redaction or withholding at that time.

From: Department of Public Health

Dear Anonymous:

I tried to open your complaint in the above-referenced matter and was unable to do so. Could you please forward it to me in a pdf format? Thank you.

Cheryl Leger
Assistant Clerk, Board of Supervisors
Tel: 415-554-7724

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The Legislative Research Center<http://www.sfbos.org/index.aspx?page=9681> provides 24-hour access to Board of Supervisors legislation, and archived matters since August 1998.

Disclosures: Personal information that is provided in communications to the Board of Supervisors is subject to disclosure under the California Public Records Act and the San Francisco Sunshine Ordinance. Personal information provided will not be redacted. Members of the public are not required to provide personal identifying information when they communicate with the Board of Supervisors and its committees. All written or oral communications that members of the public submit to the Clerk's Office regarding pending legislation or hearings will be made available to all members of the public for inspection and copying. The Clerk's Office does not redact any information from these submissions. This means that personal information-including names, phone numbers, addresses and similar information that a member of the public elects to submit to the Board and its committees-may appear on the Board of Supervisors website or in other public documents that members of the public may inspect or copy.

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 #20-1076) has been submitted.
It is currently unpublished and is not available for the general public to view.

As the requester, you can always see the status of your
request by signing into the City and County of San Francisco Public Records
portal here.

If you haven't already activated your account,
click here to get started.
Once your account is activated, your request will be visible at the following link:
Request #20-1076.

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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 #20-1076:

We received your Immediate Disclosure Request. 

Although you labeled your request as an Immediate Disclosure Request, it is not “simple, routine, or otherwise readily answerable,” as is required by San Francisco Administrative Code Section 67.25(a). For this reason, we are treating your Immediate Disclosure Request as a standard public records request, subject to the normally applicable 10-day response time, with a possible extension.

Thank you.

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From: Department of Public Health

Hi,

We received your Immediate Disclosure Request and inputted into our system as Request #20-1076 on Feb 28.

Although you labeled your request as an Immediate Disclosure Request, it is not "simple, routine, or otherwise readily answerable," as is required by San Francisco Administrative Code Section 67.25(a). For this reason, we are treating your Immediate Disclosure Request as a standard public records request, subject to the normally applicable 10-day response time, with a possible extension.

Thank you,

Veronica

From: Department of Public Health

Hi
We received your Immediate Disclosure Request and inputted it into our system as request #20-1078 (follow up to Request #20-1076).

Although you labeled your request as an Immediate Disclosure Request, it is not "simple, routine, or otherwise readily answerable," as is required by San Francisco Administrative Code Section 67.25(a). For this reason, we are treating your Immediate Disclosure Request as a standard public records request, subject to the normally applicable 10-day response time, with a possible extension.

Thank you,
Veronica

From: Department of Public Health

City and County of San Francisco

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Hi there

Your record request #20-1078 has been submitted.
It is currently under review and is not available for the general public to view.

As the requester, you can always see the status of your request
by signing in to the City and County of San Francisco Public Records Request
site here.
If you haven't already signed in to your account, you may need
to activate your account to sign in.

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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 #20-1078:

We received your Immediate Disclosure Request.

Although you labeled your request as an Immediate Disclosure Request, it is not “simple, routine, or otherwise readily answerable,” as is required by San Francisco Administrative Code Section 67.25(a). For this reason, we are treating your Immediate Disclosure Request as a standard public records request, subject to the normally applicable 10-day response time, with a possible extension. 

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From: twitter.com/journo_anon Public Records Requester

Thanks - please make requests #20-1078 and #20-1076 completely public without sign-in.

NOTE: THE EMAIL ADDRESS SENDING THIS REQUEST IS A PUBLICLY-VIEWABLE MAILBOX. Please be certain you have properly redacted all of your responses. Once you send them to us, there is no going back. 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.

From: twitter.com/journo_anon Public Records Requester

THIS IS A NEW REQUEST to DPH and Grant Colfax:

NOTE: THE EMAIL ADDRESS SENDING THIS REQUEST IS A PUBLICLY-VIEWABLE MAILBOX. Please be certain you have properly redacted all of your responses. Once you send them to us, there is no going back. 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.

Below are new Immediate Disclosure Requests (SF Admin Code 67.25(a)) directed to you individually and your agency.

1. All communications between your agency and Office of Mayor, DEM, or any of their employees or officials (including all emails, memos, texts, or chats of any form INCLUDING any personal property communications subject to City of San Jose ) including any of the following keywords: "coronavirus" "wuhan" "SARS" "COVID" "COVID19" "COVID-19" "SARS-CoV-2" "2019-nCOV" "nCOV" "severe acute respiratory syndrome" "viral pneumonia" "pneumonia of unknown etiology" from Nov 14, 2019 to present. For solely this request, any format showing all participants (TO, FROM, CC; and BCC for items sent by City employees) and preserving the body, attachments and images is sufficient.

Your initial response is required by Mar 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).

Your non-exhaustive obligations:
- All withholding of any information must be justified in writing by specific statutory authority (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. ******

Do not destroy or discard any responsive records - we will appeal all withholdings or Sunshine violations.

Thank you for your anticipated cooperation in this matter.

Sincerely,
Anonymous

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 #20-1076:

Pursuant to California Government Code Section 6253(c), we are invoking an extension of up to 14 days because of the voluminous nature of the request.

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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 #20-1078:

Pursuant to California Government Code Section 6253(c), we are invoking an extension of up to 14 days because of the voluminous nature of the request.

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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 #20-1076:

Dear requestor:

This letter responds to your Sunshine request for Public Records Act/Sunshine Ordinance requests for Request #20-1076 from 2/28/2020.

The Department of Public Health (DPH) has identified approximately 25,000 emails (totaling a currently unknown number of pages) potentially responsive to your request, all in electronic format.  DPH needs to review the emails for responsiveness.  The emails must also be reviewed for privilege and exemptions.  This effort will be time-consuming and, in light of the global corona virus pandemic, including declared State and local San Francisco emergencies, 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).) 

Until the expiration of the State and local emergencies, and in order to conserve City resources, we would request that you or your attorney please direct all communications regarding this request to Deputy City Attorney Louise Simpson.  Ms. Simpson cannot provide legal advice, but will be able to update you on the status of the production.  Ms. Simpson’s direct phone number is: (415) 554-3987.

Thank you for your attention.

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From: twitter.com/journo_anon Public Records Requester

DPH and Dept Head:

Below are NEW Immediate Disclosure Requests (SF Admin Code 67.25(a)) directed to you individually and your agency. I am waiving all timeliness requirements for this specific request (but not the prior requests from this email address) until April 7, 2020 subject to the condition that your agency and its employees do not destroy and indeed retain all responsive records (ON BOTH PERSONAL AND GOVERNMENT PROPERTY) that exist as of receipt of this request. You may therefore still need to inform your agency's employees of this request, and that they cannot destroy the responsive records below even on personal property and even if they do not need to respond until April 7.

1. All communications between your agency or its employees/officers on the one hand, and the DEM, CDC, CADPH, or Office of Mayor or any of their employees or officials on the other hand (including all emails, memos, texts, or chats of any form INCLUDING any personal property communications subject to City of San Jose ) including any of the following keywords: "coronavirus" "wuhan" "SARS" "COVID" "COVID19" "COVID-19" "SARS-CoV-2" "2019-nCOV" "nCOV" "severe acute respiratory syndrome" "viral pneumonia" "pneumonia of unknown etiology" from **Nov 14, 2019 to Mar 17, 2020.** For solely this request, any format showing all participants (TO, FROM, CC; and BCC for items sent by City employees) and preserving the body, attachments and images is sufficient. You may exclude final versions of any orders, press releases, or other documents already published by the City on a public website, but you must provide any non-final/prior/non-published versions if you retained them as of this request.

Your initial response is required by Apr 7, 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).

Your non-exhaustive obligations:
- All withholding of any information must be justified in writing by specific statutory authority (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. ******

Do not destroy or discard any responsive records - we will appeal all withholdings or Sunshine violations.

Thank you for your anticipated cooperation in this matter.

NOTE: THE EMAIL ADDRESS SENDING THIS REQUEST IS A PUBLICLY-VIEWABLE MAILBOX. Please be certain you have properly redacted all of your responses. Once you send them to us, there is no going back. 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: Department of Public Health

Dear Requester,

Request #20-1076 – requested for COVID19 communications between all DPH and CDC/CDPH.
Timeframe: Nov 14 2019 – Feb 28 2020
# of emails being exported for review: 24-25K in process

Below NEW Request –requesting for COVID19 communications between all DPH and CDC/CDPH/DEM/Mayor’s office.
Timeframe: Nov 14 2019 – Mar 17 2020
# of emails anticipated to be exported for review will be multiple times more.

The new request looks like it encompasses your first request and more. Okay to overwrite the old request w the new request?

Please confirm.

Thank you,

Veronica

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 #20-1078:

#3. 

As of March 1st, we had the following resources provided by the CDC, which directly influences how many specimens we can test:

* 350 tests remaining: Qiagen DSP Viral Kits 

* 845 tests remaining: CDC 2019-nCoV Real-time RT-PCR Diagnostic Panel  

#4.

Please see health advisories issued by SFDPH to health providers regarding testing criteria for COVID-19.

 

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From: Department of Public Health

City and County of San Francisco

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Hi there

Record request #20-1078 has been closed. The closure reason supplied was:

This concludes your public records request.

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From: twitter.com/journo_anon Public Records Requester

Please make requests 20-1076 and 20-1078 publicly viewable. I will not sign in to any third party service.

From: Department of Public Health

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City and County of San Francisco

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From: twitter.com/journo_anon Public Records Requester

DCA Simpson,

DPH requested I contact you re: DPH records requests 20-1076 and 20-1078.

DPH has not made requests 20-1076 and 20-1078 available openly on NextRequest. The City cannot require me to agree to end-user conditions to access public records, for example by requiring registration and acceptance of NextRequest's terms of service (see for example Santa Clara Co. vs Superior Ct, 170 Cal.App 4th 1301). Please make those requests publicly viewable on NextRequest, without sign-in.

NOTE: THE EMAIL ADDRESS SENDING THIS REQUEST IS A PUBLICLY-VIEWABLE MAILBOX. Please be certain you have properly redacted all of your responses. Once you send them to us, there is no going back. 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: Department of Public Health

City and County of San Francisco

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Hi there

Record request #20-1076 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: twitter.com/journo_anon Public Records Requester

You cannot close my outstanding requests. Violation complaints will be filed with SOTF.

--Anonymous

From: twitter.com/journo_anon Public Records Requester

This is a 67.21(d) petition for written determination that records requested in DPH requests 20-1076 and 20-1078 are public and an order for their disclosure.

From: Department of Public Health

Good Morning:

The Department of Public Health has been named as a Respondent in the attached complaint filed with the Sunshine Ordinance Task Force. Please respond to the attached complaint/request within five business days.

The Respondent is required to submit a written response to the allegations including any and all supporting documents, recordings, electronic media, etc., to the Task Force within five (5) business days of receipt of this notice. This is your opportunity to provide a full explanation to allow the Task Force to be fully informed in considering your response prior its meeting.

Please include the following information in your response if applicable:

1. List all relevant records with descriptions that have been provided pursuant to the Complainant request.
2. Date the relevant records were provided to the Complainant.
3. Description of the method used, along with any relevant search terms used, to search for the relevant records.
4. Statement/declaration that all relevant documents have been provided, does not exist, or has been excluded.
5. Copy of the original request for records (if applicable).

Please refer to the File Number when submitting any new information and/or supporting documents pertaining to this complaint.

The Complainant alleges:

Complaint Attached.

Cheryl Leger

Assistant Clerk, Board of Supervisors

Tel: 415-554-7724

<http://www.sfbos.org/index.aspx?page=104> Click here<http://www.sfbos.org/index.aspx?page=104> to complete a Board of Supervisors Customer Service Satisfaction form.

The Legislative Research Center<http://www.sfbos.org/index.aspx?page=9681> provides 24-hour access to Board of Supervisors legislation, and archived matters since August 1998.

Disclosures: Personal information that is provided in communications to the Board of Supervisors is subject to disclosure under the California Public Records Act and the San Francisco Sunshine Ordinance. Personal information provided will not be redacted. Members of the public are not required to provide personal identifying information when they communicate with the Board of Supervisors and its committees. All written or oral communications that members of the public submit to the Clerk's Office regarding pending legislation or hearings will be made available to all members of the public for inspection and copying. The Clerk's Office does not redact any information from these submissions. This means that personal information-including names, phone numbers, addresses and similar information that a member of the public elects to submit to the Board and its committees-may appear on the Board of Supervisors website or in other public documents that members of the public may inspect or copy.

From: twitter.com/journo_anon Public Records Requester

Ms Leger 20059 is missing my complaint itself

From: Department of Public Health

Anonymous: In my records, the Complaint was attached, but here it is again.

Cheryl Leger
Assistant Clerk, Board of Supervisors
Cheryl.Leger@sfgov.org<mailto:Cheryl.Leger@sfgov.org>
Tel: 415-554-7724
Fax: 415-554-5163
www.sfbos.org

[CustomerSatisfactionIcon]<http://www.sfbos.org/index.aspx?page=104> Click here<http://www.sfbos.org/index.aspx?page=104> to complete a Board of Supervisors Customer Service Satisfaction form.

The Legislative Research Center<http://www.sfbos.org/index.aspx?page=9681> provides 24-hour access to Board of Supervisors legislation, and archived matters since August 1998.

Disclosures: Personal information that is provided in communications to the Board of Supervisors is subject to disclosure under the California Public Records Act and the San Francisco Sunshine Ordinance. Personal information provided will not be redacted. Members of the public are not required to provide personal identifying information when they communicate with the Board of Supervisors and its committees. All written or oral communications that members of the public submit to the Clerk's Office regarding pending legislation or hearings will be made available to all members of the public for inspection and copying. The Clerk's Office does not redact any information from these submissions. This means that personal information-including names, phone numbers, addresses and similar information that a member of the public elects to submit to the Board and its committees-may appear on the Board of Supervisors website or in other public documents that members of the public may inspect or copy.

From: Department of Public Health

Good Morning:

Notice is hereby given that the Complaint Committee (Committee) of the Sunshine Ordinance Task Force (Task Force) shall hold hearings on complaints listed below to: 1) determine if the Task Force has jurisdiction; 2) review the merits of the complaints; and/or 3) issue a report and/or recommendation to the Task Force.

Date: February 15, 2022

Location: Remote Meeting

Time: 5:30 p.m.

Complainants: Your attendance is required for this meeting/hearing.

Respondents/Departments: Pursuant to Section 67.21 (e) of the Ordinance, the custodian of records or a representative of your department, who can speak to the matter, is required at the meeting/hearing.

File No. 20059: Complaint filed by Anonymous against the Department of Public Health for allegedly violating Administrative Code (Sunshine Ordinance), Section 67.25 by failing to respond to an Immediate Disclosure request in a timely and complete manner.

File No. 20053: Complaint filed by Anonymous against Lt. Kathryn Waaland, Police Department, for allegedly violating Administrative Code (Sunshine Ordinance), Sections 67.21(b)(l) by failing to respond to a records request in a complete and timely manner, 67.26 withholding of records.

File No. 20124: Complaint filed by Stephen Bejanski against Kevin Guy and the Office of Short-Term Rentals for allegedly violating Administrative Code (Sunshine Ordinance), Sections 67.24 for failing to provide public information; 67.25 for failing to respond to an Immediate Disclosure Request in a timely manner, 67.26 for failing to keep withholding to a minimum; 67.27 for failing to justify withholding and 67.29 and failing to provide an index of records.

File No. 22005: Complaint filed by Marc Norton Against the Department of Public Health for allegedly violating Administrator Code (Sunshine Ordinance), Sections 67.21, by failing to respond to a public records request in a timely and/or complete manner.

File No. 22006: Complaint filed by Andrew While against the Department of Police Accountability for allegedly violating Administrator Code (Sunshine Ordinance), Sections 67.1, 67.21, 67.24(d), by failing to respond to a public records request in a timely and/or complete manner.

Documentation (evidence supporting/disputing complaint)

For a document to be considered, it must be received at least five (4) working days before the hearing (see attached Public Complaint Procedure).

For inclusion in the agenda packet, supplemental/supporting documents must be received by 5:00 pm, February 10, 2022.

Cheryl Leger

Assistant Clerk, Board of Supervisors

Tel: 415-554-7724

<http://www.sfbos.org/index.aspx?page=104> Click here<http://www.sfbos.org/index.aspx?page=104> to complete a Board of Supervisors Customer Service Satisfaction form.

The Legislative Research Center<http://www.sfbos.org/index.aspx?page=9681> provides 24-hour access to Board of Supervisors legislation, and archived matters since August 1998.

Disclosures: Personal information that is provided in communications to the Board of Supervisors is subject to disclosure under the California Public Records Act and the San Francisco Sunshine Ordinance. Personal information provided will not be redacted. Members of the public are not required to provide personal identifying information when they communicate with the Board of Supervisors and its committees. All written or oral communications that members of the public submit to the Clerk's Office regarding pending legislation or hearings will be made available to all members of the public for inspection and copying. The Clerk's Office does not redact any information from these submissions. This means that personal information—including names, phone numbers, addresses and similar information that a member of the public elects to submit to the Board and its committees—may appear on the Board of Supervisors website or in other public documents that members of the public may inspect or copy.

From: Department of Public Health

Good Morning:

The agenda and packet for the of the Complaint Committee February 15, 2022, 5:30 p.m. meeting is online at the following link:

https://sfgov.org/sunshine/sites/default/files/complaint_021522_agenda.pdf

The packet material is linked to each item listed on the agenda marked with an "attachment". Click anywhere on the title of the item to open the link to the pdf of the packet material in question.

Cheryl Leger

Assistant Clerk, Board of Supervisors

Cheryl.Leger@sfgov.org<mailto:Cheryl.Leger@sfgov.org>

Tel: 415-554-7724

Fax: 415-554-5163

www.sfbos.org

<http://www.sfbos.org/index.aspx?page=104> Click here<http://www.sfbos.org/index.aspx?page=104> to complete a Board of Supervisors Customer Service Satisfaction form.

The Legislative Research Center<http://www.sfbos.org/index.aspx?page=9681> provides 24-hour access to Board of Supervisors legislation, and archived matters since August 1998.

Disclosures: Personal information that is provided in communications to the Board of Supervisors is subject to disclosure under the California Public Records Act and the San Francisco Sunshine Ordinance. Personal information provided will not be redacted. Members of the public are not required to provide personal identifying information when they communicate with the Board of Supervisors and its committees. All written or oral communications that members of the public submit to the Clerk's Office regarding pending legislation or hearings will be made available to all members of the public for inspection and copying. The Clerk's Office does not redact any information from these submissions. This means that personal information-including names, phone numbers, addresses and similar information that a member of the public elects to submit to the Board and its committees-may appear on the Board of Supervisors website or in other public documents that members of the public may inspect or copy.

From: Department of Public Health

Hi SOTF,

FYI

I have transferred out of the Legal Division. Lt. Lynn Reilly is the new point of contact. Please remove me from your contact list.

Thank you and have a good weekend!

Captain Arran Pera #531

SFPD Bureau of Investigations

Major Crimes-

Robbery/Burglary/Narcotics

850 Bryant St 5th Floor

San Francisco CA 94103

415-553-1049 Desk
415-553-1484 Main

This communication, along with any attachments, is covered by federal and state laws governing electronic communications and may contain confidential and legally privileged information. If the reader of this message is not the intended recipient, you are hereby notified that any dissemination, distribution, use, or copying of this message is strictly prohibited. If you have received this communication in error please reply immediately to the sender and/or delete this message. Thank you.

From: Department of Public Health

Good afternoon Cheryl..

I see the attached link for the meeting and I will join you then.
Thank you enjoy your weekend

Lieutenant Lynn Reilly #1141
Legal Division
San Francisco Police Department
1245 3rd Street , 4th Floor
San Francisco, Ca. 94158
415-837-7394 Main
415-837-7176 Desk

CONFIDENTIALITY NOTICE: This communication and its contents may contain confidential and/or legally privileged information. It is solely for the use of the intended recipient(s). Unauthorized interception, review, use or disclosure is prohibited and may violate applicable laws, including the Electronic Communications Privacy Act. If you are not the intended recipient, please contact the sender and destroy all copies of the communication.

From:

I am not able to attend this meeting. I request that my complaint, File No. 22005, be continued to a later meeting.

Marc Norton
(415) 648-2535 (landline)

From: Department of Public Health

I would appreciate an acknowledgement of this request.
-Marc Norton

From: Department of Public Health

Hi SOTF,

Just a reminder that I am no longer assigned to the Legal Division. Lt. Reilly has taken over for me. Please remove me from future notifications.

Thanks

Captain Arran Pera #531

SFPD Bureau of Investigations

Major Crimes-

Robbery/Burglary/Narcotics

850 Bryant St 5th Floor

San Francisco CA 94103

415-553-1049 Desk
415-553-1484 Main

This communication, along with any attachments, is covered by federal and state laws governing electronic communications and may contain confidential and legally privileged information. If the reader of this message is not the intended recipient, you are hereby notified that any dissemination, distribution, use, or copying of this message is strictly prohibited. If you have received this communication in error please reply immediately to the sender and/or delete this message. Thank you.

From: Department of Public Health

Good morning - SOTF
Please take Captain Aaron Pera's email off your distribution list he is no longer assigned to job duties related to Legal Division. -- thank you..

I can acknowledge Marc Nortons email if that is part of my job ... consider it done.
Have a great morning

Lieutenant Lynn Reilly #1141
Legal Division
San Francisco Police Department
1245 3rd Street , 4th Floor
San Francisco, Ca. 94158
415-837-7394 Main
415-837-7176 Desk

CONFIDENTIALITY NOTICE: This communication and its contents may contain confidential and/or legally privileged information. It is solely for the use of the intended recipient(s). Unauthorized interception, review, use or disclosure is prohibited and may violate applicable laws, including the Electronic Communications Privacy Act. If you are not the intended recipient, please contact the sender and destroy all copies of the communication.

From:

Hello,

I am responding on behalf of SFDPH regarding public records request #20-1076. We first wanted to offer our sincere our apologies. We were not aware that you did not have access to the NextRequest system to view the Department's response to your request. Your experience in the NextRequest system was the first we had heard of it being inaccessible and that you were unable to view our response to your records request seeking clarification. It was never our intention to withhold information.

DPH has identified a voluminous number of emails potentially responsive to your request. We would appreciate any narrowing down of the request. Could you please provide specific names of individuals that you'd request the information?

In the meantime, until we hear from you, to the best of abilities of our abilities, we will begin processing this request based on the narrowing by individuals as opposed to the entire Department. We will provide these documents to you on a rolling basis.

We have included the original request below for reference.

All communications with CDC or its employees (email, text, or chat) with any of the following

insensitive keywords: "coronavirus" "wuhan" "SARS" "COVID" "COVID19" "COVID-19" "SARS-CoV-2" "2019-nCOV" "nCOV" "severe acute respiratory syndrome" "viral pneumonia" "pneumonia of unknown origin" "novel pneumonia" from Nov 14, 2019 to present. For solely this request, any format showing all participants (TO, FROM, CC; and BCC for items sent by City employees) and preserving the body, attachments and images is sufficient.

2. All communications to or from the California DPH or its employees (email, text, or chat) with any of the following insensitive keywords: "coronavirus" "wuhan" "SARS" "COVID" "COVID19" "COVID-19" "SARS-CoV-2" "2019-nCOV" "nCOV" "severe acute respiratory syndrome" "viral pneumonia" "pneumonia of unknown origin" "novel pneumonia" from Nov 14, 2019 to present (request submitted: 2/28/20).

Thank you,

DPH Sunshine Team

From: Department of Public Health

City and County of San Francisco

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A message was sent to you regarding record request #20-1076:

This message was also emailed directly to requests@muckrock.com on 3/1/22:

Hello, 

I am responding on behalf of SFDPH regarding public

records request #20-1076. We first wanted to offer our sincere our apologies.

We were not aware that you did not have access to the NextRequest system to view the

Department’s response to your request. Your experience in the NextRequest system was the first we had

heard of it being inaccessible and that you were unable to view our response to

your records request seeking clarification. It was never our intention to

withhold information. 

 

DPH has identified a voluminous number of emails potentially responsive to your request. We would appreciate any narrowing down of the request. Could you please provide specific names of individuals that you’d request the information? 

 

In the meantime, until we hear from you, to the best of abilities of our abilities, we will begin processing this request based on the narrowing by individuals as opposed to the entire Department. We will provide these documents to you on a rolling basis.  

 

We have included the original request below for reference. 

All communications with CDC or its employees (email,

text, or chat) with any of the following 

insensitive keywords: "coronavirus" "wuhan" "SARS"

"COVID" "COVID19" "COVID-19"

"SARS-CoV-2" "2019-nCOV" "nCOV" "severe acute

respiratory syndrome" "viral pneumonia" "pneumonia of

unknown origin" "novel pneumonia" from Nov 14, 2019 to present. For solely

this request, any format showing all participants (TO, FROM, CC; and BCC for

items sent by City employees) and preserving the body, attachments and images

is sufficient. 

2. All communications to or from the California DPH or

its employees (email, text, or chat) with any of the following insensitive

keywords: "coronavirus" "wuhan" "SARS"

"COVID" "COVID19" "COVID-19"

"SARS-CoV-2" "2019-nCOV" "nCOV" "severe acute

respiratory syndrome" "viral pneumonia" "pneumonia of

unknown origin" "novel pneumonia" from Nov 14, 2019 to present (request

submitted: 2/28/20). 

 

Thank you, 

DPH Sunshine Team 

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From: Department of Public Health

To the requestor, can you please provide your case number? Thank you.

Cheryl Leger
Assistant Clerk, Board of Supervisors
Cheryl.Leger@sfgov.org<mailto:Cheryl.Leger@sfgov.org>
Tel: 415-554-7724
Fax: 415-554-5163
www.sfbos.org

[CustomerSatisfactionIcon]<http://www.sfbos.org/index.aspx?page=104> Click here<http://www.sfbos.org/index.aspx?page=104> to complete a Board of Supervisors Customer Service Satisfaction form.

The Legislative Research Center<http://www.sfbos.org/index.aspx?page=9681> provides 24-hour access to Board of Supervisors legislation, and archived matters since August 1998.

Disclosures: Personal information that is provided in communications to the Board of Supervisors is subject to disclosure under the California Public Records Act and the San Francisco Sunshine Ordinance. Personal information provided will not be redacted. Members of the public are not required to provide personal identifying information when they communicate with the Board of Supervisors and its committees. All written or oral communications that members of the public submit to the Clerk's Office regarding pending legislation or hearings will be made available to all members of the public for inspection and copying. The Clerk's Office does not redact any information from these submissions. This means that personal information-including names, phone numbers, addresses and similar information that a member of the public elects to submit to the Board and its committees-may appear on the Board of Supervisors website or in other public documents that members of the public may inspect or copy.

From: Department of Public Health

Hello DPH Sunshine: Can you please provide the File No. for this request? Thank you.

Cheryl Leger
Assistant Clerk, Board of Supervisors
Cheryl.Leger@sfgov.org<mailto:Cheryl.Leger@sfgov.org>
Tel: 415-554-7724
Fax: 415-554-5163
www.sfbos.org

[CustomerSatisfactionIcon]<http://www.sfbos.org/index.aspx?page=104> Click here<http://www.sfbos.org/index.aspx?page=104> to complete a Board of Supervisors Customer Service Satisfaction form.

The Legislative Research Center<http://www.sfbos.org/index.aspx?page=9681> provides 24-hour access to Board of Supervisors legislation, and archived matters since August 1998.

Disclosures: Personal information that is provided in communications to the Board of Supervisors is subject to disclosure under the California Public Records Act and the San Francisco Sunshine Ordinance. Personal information provided will not be redacted. Members of the public are not required to provide personal identifying information when they communicate with the Board of Supervisors and its committees. All written or oral communications that members of the public submit to the Clerk's Office regarding pending legislation or hearings will be made available to all members of the public for inspection and copying. The Clerk's Office does not redact any information from these submissions. This means that personal information-including names, phone numbers, addresses and similar information that a member of the public elects to submit to the Board and its committees-may appear on the Board of Supervisors website or in other public documents that members of the public may inspect or copy.

From: DPH Sunshine <dph.sunshine@sfdph.org>
Sent: Tuesday, March 1, 2022 1:15 PM
To: requests@muckrock.com
Cc: SOTF, (BOS) <sotf@sfgov.org>
Subject: Public Records Request #20-1076

Hello,

I am responding on behalf of SFDPH regarding public records request #20-1076. We first wanted to offer our sincere our apologies. We were not aware that you did not have access to the NextRequest system to view the Department's response to your request. Your experience in the NextRequest system was the first we had heard of it being inaccessible and that you were unable to view our response to your records request seeking clarification. It was never our intention to withhold information.

DPH has identified a voluminous number of emails potentially responsive to your request. We would appreciate any narrowing down of the request. Could you please provide specific names of individuals that you'd request the information?

In the meantime, until we hear from you, to the best of abilities of our abilities, we will begin processing this request based on the narrowing by individuals as opposed to the entire Department. We will provide these documents to you on a rolling basis.

We have included the original request below for reference.

All communications with CDC or its employees (email, text, or chat) with any of the following

insensitive keywords: "coronavirus" "wuhan" "SARS" "COVID" "COVID19" "COVID-19" "SARS-CoV-2" "2019-nCOV" "nCOV" "severe acute respiratory syndrome" "viral pneumonia" "pneumonia of unknown origin" "novel pneumonia" from Nov 14, 2019 to present. For solely this request, any format showing all participants (TO, FROM, CC; and BCC for items sent by City employees) and preserving the body, attachments and images is sufficient.

2. All communications to or from the California DPH or its employees (email, text, or chat) with any of the following insensitive keywords: "coronavirus" "wuhan" "SARS" "COVID" "COVID19" "COVID-19" "SARS-CoV-2" "2019-nCOV" "nCOV" "severe acute respiratory syndrome" "viral pneumonia" "pneumonia of unknown origin" "novel pneumonia" from Nov 14, 2019 to present (request submitted: 2/28/20).

Thank you,

DPH Sunshine Team

From: Department of Public Health

Can one of you please provide the corresponding Sunshine Task Force case number for this information? Thank you.

Cheryl Leger
Assistant Clerk, Board of Supervisors
Cheryl.Leger@sfgov.org<mailto:Cheryl.Leger@sfgov.org>
Tel: 415-554-7724
Fax: 415-554-5163
www.sfbos.org

[CustomerSatisfactionIcon]<http://www.sfbos.org/index.aspx?page=104> Click here<http://www.sfbos.org/index.aspx?page=104> to complete a Board of Supervisors Customer Service Satisfaction form.

The Legislative Research Center<http://www.sfbos.org/index.aspx?page=9681> provides 24-hour access to Board of Supervisors legislation, and archived matters since August 1998.

Disclosures: Personal information that is provided in communications to the Board of Supervisors is subject to disclosure under the California Public Records Act and the San Francisco Sunshine Ordinance. Personal information provided will not be redacted. Members of the public are not required to provide personal identifying information when they communicate with the Board of Supervisors and its committees. All written or oral communications that members of the public submit to the Clerk's Office regarding pending legislation or hearings will be made available to all members of the public for inspection and copying. The Clerk's Office does not redact any information from these submissions. This means that personal information-including names, phone numbers, addresses and similar information that a member of the public elects to submit to the Board and its committees-may appear on the Board of Supervisors website or in other public documents that members of the public may inspect or copy.

From: DPH Sunshine <dph.sunshine@sfdph.org>
Sent: Tuesday, March 1, 2022 1:15 PM
To: requests@muckrock.com
Cc: SOTF, (BOS) <sotf@sfgov.org>
Subject: Public Records Request #20-1076

Hello,

I am responding on behalf of SFDPH regarding public records request #20-1076. We first wanted to offer our sincere our apologies. We were not aware that you did not have access to the NextRequest system to view the Department's response to your request. Your experience in the NextRequest system was the first we had heard of it being inaccessible and that you were unable to view our response to your records request seeking clarification. It was never our intention to withhold information.

DPH has identified a voluminous number of emails potentially responsive to your request. We would appreciate any narrowing down of the request. Could you please provide specific names of individuals that you'd request the information?

In the meantime, until we hear from you, to the best of abilities of our abilities, we will begin processing this request based on the narrowing by individuals as opposed to the entire Department. We will provide these documents to you on a rolling basis.

We have included the original request below for reference.

All communications with CDC or its employees (email, text, or chat) with any of the following

insensitive keywords: "coronavirus" "wuhan" "SARS" "COVID" "COVID19" "COVID-19" "SARS-CoV-2" "2019-nCOV" "nCOV" "severe acute respiratory syndrome" "viral pneumonia" "pneumonia of unknown origin" "novel pneumonia" from Nov 14, 2019 to present. For solely this request, any format showing all participants (TO, FROM, CC; and BCC for items sent by City employees) and preserving the body, attachments and images is sufficient.

2. All communications to or from the California DPH or its employees (email, text, or chat) with any of the following insensitive keywords: "coronavirus" "wuhan" "SARS" "COVID" "COVID19" "COVID-19" "SARS-CoV-2" "2019-nCOV" "nCOV" "severe acute respiratory syndrome" "viral pneumonia" "pneumonia of unknown origin" "novel pneumonia" from Nov 14, 2019 to present (request submitted: 2/28/20).

Thank you,

DPH Sunshine Team

From:

20059

From:

Hello,
Apologies for not providing it initially. It is File No. 20059.
Thank you

From: Department of Public Health

Dear Parties: Can you please tell me what Sunshine Complaint Number this relates to? Please when corresponding with me always include the corresponding number.

Cheryl Leger
Assistant Clerk, Board of Supervisors
Cheryl.Leger@sfgov.org<mailto:Cheryl.Leger@sfgov.org>
Tel: 415-554-7724
Fax: 415-554-5163
www.sfbos.org

[CustomerSatisfactionIcon]<http://www.sfbos.org/index.aspx?page=104> Click here<http://www.sfbos.org/index.aspx?page=104> to complete a Board of Supervisors Customer Service Satisfaction form.

The Legislative Research Center<http://www.sfbos.org/index.aspx?page=9681> provides 24-hour access to Board of Supervisors legislation, and archived matters since August 1998.

Disclosures: Personal information that is provided in communications to the Board of Supervisors is subject to disclosure under the California Public Records Act and the San Francisco Sunshine Ordinance. Personal information provided will not be redacted. Members of the public are not required to provide personal identifying information when they communicate with the Board of Supervisors and its committees. All written or oral communications that members of the public submit to the Clerk's Office regarding pending legislation or hearings will be made available to all members of the public for inspection and copying. The Clerk's Office does not redact any information from these submissions. This means that personal information-including names, phone numbers, addresses and similar information that a member of the public elects to submit to the Board and its committees-may appear on the Board of Supervisors website or in other public documents that members of the public may inspect or copy.

From: DPH Sunshine <dph.sunshine@sfdph.org>
Sent: Tuesday, March 1, 2022 1:15 PM
To: requests@muckrock.com
Cc: SOTF, (BOS) <sotf@sfgov.org>
Subject: Public Records Request #20-1076

Hello,

I am responding on behalf of SFDPH regarding public records request #20-1076. We first wanted to offer our sincere our apologies. We were not aware that you did not have access to the NextRequest system to view the Department's response to your request. Your experience in the NextRequest system was the first we had heard of it being inaccessible and that you were unable to view our response to your records request seeking clarification. It was never our intention to withhold information.

DPH has identified a voluminous number of emails potentially responsive to your request. We would appreciate any narrowing down of the request. Could you please provide specific names of individuals that you'd request the information?

In the meantime, until we hear from you, to the best of abilities of our abilities, we will begin processing this request based on the narrowing by individuals as opposed to the entire Department. We will provide these documents to you on a rolling basis.

We have included the original request below for reference.

All communications with CDC or its employees (email, text, or chat) with any of the following

insensitive keywords: "coronavirus" "wuhan" "SARS" "COVID" "COVID19" "COVID-19" "SARS-CoV-2" "2019-nCOV" "nCOV" "severe acute respiratory syndrome" "viral pneumonia" "pneumonia of unknown origin" "novel pneumonia" from Nov 14, 2019 to present. For solely this request, any format showing all participants (TO, FROM, CC; and BCC for items sent by City employees) and preserving the body, attachments and images is sufficient.

2. All communications to or from the California DPH or its employees (email, text, or chat) with any of the following insensitive keywords: "coronavirus" "wuhan" "SARS" "COVID" "COVID19" "COVID-19" "SARS-CoV-2" "2019-nCOV" "nCOV" "severe acute respiratory syndrome" "viral pneumonia" "pneumonia of unknown origin" "novel pneumonia" from Nov 14, 2019 to present (request submitted: 2/28/20).

Thank you,

DPH Sunshine Team

From:

Cheryl,

It is File No. 20059.

Thank you.

From: Department of Public Health

City and County of San Francisco

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Record request #20-1076 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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A document has been released for record request #20-1076 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.

* CDPHemails_Batch1.pdf

Document links are valid for one month.
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From:

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We have conducted a diligent search for records responsive to your request. We have located responsive records, which are available to you here and have also been uploaded to NextRequest case #20-1076. Due to the need to continue reviewing, we will produce any additional responsive records on a rolling basis.

Thank you.

From: Department of Public Health

City and County of San Francisco

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Documents have been released for record request #20-1076:

* CDPHEmails_Batch2.pdf

* CDCEmails_Batch1.pdf

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From:

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We have conducted a diligent search for records responsive to your request. We have located responsive records, which are available to you here and have also been uploaded to NextRequest case #20-1076. Due to the need to continue reviewing, we will produce any additional responsive records on a rolling basis.

Thank you.

From: Department of Public Health

Please provide a SOTF Complaint number. Thank you.

Cheryl Leger
Assistant Clerk, Board of Supervisors
Cheryl.Leger@sfgov.org<mailto:Cheryl.Leger@sfgov.org>
Tel: 415-554-7724
Fax: 415-554-5163
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[CustomerSatisfactionIcon]<http://www.sfbos.org/index.aspx?page=104> Click here<http://www.sfbos.org/index.aspx?page=104> to complete a Board of Supervisors Customer Service Satisfaction form.

The Legislative Research Center<http://www.sfbos.org/index.aspx?page=9681> provides 24-hour access to Board of Supervisors legislation, and archived matters since August 1998.

Disclosures: Personal information that is provided in communications to the Board of Supervisors is subject to disclosure under the California Public Records Act and the San Francisco Sunshine Ordinance. Personal information provided will not be redacted. Members of the public are not required to provide personal identifying information when they communicate with the Board of Supervisors and its committees. All written or oral communications that members of the public submit to the Clerk's Office regarding pending legislation or hearings will be made available to all members of the public for inspection and copying. The Clerk's Office does not redact any information from these submissions. This means that personal information-including names, phone numbers, addresses and similar information that a member of the public elects to submit to the Board and its committees-may appear on the Board of Supervisors website or in other public documents that members of the public may inspect or copy.

From: DPH Sunshine <dph.sunshine@sfdph.org>
Sent: Tuesday, March 8, 2022 2:05 PM
To: DPH Sunshine <dph.sunshine@sfdph.org>; SOTF, (BOS) <sotf@sfgov.org>
Cc: requests@muckrock.com
Subject: RE: Public Records Request #20-1076

Requester,

We have conducted a diligent search for records responsive to your request. We have located responsive records, which are available to you here and have also been uploaded to NextRequest case #20-1076. Due to the need to continue reviewing, we will produce any additional responsive records on a rolling basis.

Thank you.

From: DPH Sunshine <dph.sunshine@sfdph.org<mailto:dph.sunshine@sfdph.org>>
Sent: Tuesday, March 1, 2022 1:15 PM
To: requests@muckrock.com<mailto:requests@muckrock.com>
Cc: SOTF, (BOS) <sotf@sfgov.org<mailto:sotf@sfgov.org>>
Subject: Public Records Request #20-1076

Hello,

I am responding on behalf of SFDPH regarding public records request #20-1076. We first wanted to offer our sincere our apologies. We were not aware that you did not have access to the NextRequest system to view the Department's response to your request. Your experience in the NextRequest system was the first we had heard of it being inaccessible and that you were unable to view our response to your records request seeking clarification. It was never our intention to withhold information.

DPH has identified a voluminous number of emails potentially responsive to your request. We would appreciate any narrowing down of the request. Could you please provide specific names of individuals that you'd request the information?

In the meantime, until we hear from you, to the best of abilities of our abilities, we will begin processing this request based on the narrowing by individuals as opposed to the entire Department. We will provide these documents to you on a rolling basis.

We have included the original request below for reference.

All communications with CDC or its employees (email, text, or chat) with any of the following

insensitive keywords: "coronavirus" "wuhan" "SARS" "COVID" "COVID19" "COVID-19" "SARS-CoV-2" "2019-nCOV" "nCOV" "severe acute respiratory syndrome" "viral pneumonia" "pneumonia of unknown origin" "novel pneumonia" from Nov 14, 2019 to present. For solely this request, any format showing all participants (TO, FROM, CC; and BCC for items sent by City employees) and preserving the body, attachments and images is sufficient.

2. All communications to or from the California DPH or its employees (email, text, or chat) with any of the following insensitive keywords: "coronavirus" "wuhan" "SARS" "COVID" "COVID19" "COVID-19" "SARS-CoV-2" "2019-nCOV" "nCOV" "severe acute respiratory syndrome" "viral pneumonia" "pneumonia of unknown origin" "novel pneumonia" from Nov 14, 2019 to present (request submitted: 2/28/20).

Thank you,

DPH Sunshine Team

From:

20059

From: Department of Public Health

City and County of San Francisco

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A document has been released for record request #20-1076:

* CDC Emails_Batch2.pdf

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After April 8, you will need to sign in to view the document(s).

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From:

Requester,

We have conducted a diligent search for records responsive to your request. We have located responsive records, which are available to you here and have also been uploaded to NextRequest case #20-1076/ SOTF File 20059. Due to the need to continue reviewing, we will produce any additional responsive records on a rolling basis.

Thank you.

From: Department of Public Health

City and County of San Francisco

************************************************************************

A document has been released for record request #20-1076 along with the following message:

We have redacted parts of the records provided in response to your request here because such records contain protected health information. Cal. Govt. Code Secs. 6254(c), 6254(k); Health Insurance and Accountability Act of 1996, 45 C.F.R. Secs.160, 164; Cal. Civ. Code Secs. 56 et seq.; California Constitution, Art. I, Sec. 1.

* TomasAragon_CDPHemails_Batch1_Redacted.pdf

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From:

Requester,

We have conducted a diligent search for records responsive to your request. We have located responsive records, which are available to you here and have also been uploaded to NextRequest case #20-1076/ SOTF File 20059. We have redacted parts of the records provided in response to your request here because such records contain protected health information. Cal. Govt. Code Secs. 6254(c), 6254(k); Health Insurance and Accountability Act of 1996, 45 C.F.R. Secs.160, 164; Cal. Civ. Code Secs. 56 et seq.; California Constitution, Art. I, Sec. 1.

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

Thank you.

From: Department of Public Health

City and County of San Francisco

************************************************************************

A document has been released for record request #20-1076:

* TomasAragon_CDPHemails_Batch2_Redacted.pdf

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After April 11, you will need to sign in to view the document(s).

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From:

Requester,

We have conducted a diligent search for records responsive to your request. We have located responsive records, which are available to you here and have also been uploaded to NextRequest case #20-1076/ SOTF File 20059. Due to the need to continue reviewing, we will produce any additional responsive records on a rolling basis.

Thank you.

From: Department of Public Health

City and County of San Francisco

************************************************************************

A document has been released for record request #20-1076:

* TomasAragon_CDPHemails_Batch3.pdf

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After April 11, you will need to sign in to view the document(s).

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From:

Requester,

We have conducted a diligent search for records responsive to your request. We have located responsive records, which are available to you here and have also been uploaded to NextRequest case #20-1076/ SOTF File 20059. Due to the need to continue reviewing, we will produce any additional responsive records on a rolling basis.

Thank you.

From: Department of Public Health

City and County of San Francisco

************************************************************************

A document has been released for record request #20-1076:

* TomasAragon_CDPHemails_Batch4.pdf

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From:

Requester,

We have conducted a diligent search for records responsive to your request. We have located responsive records, which are available to you here and have also been uploaded to NextRequest case #20-1076/ SOTF File 20059. Due to the need to continue reviewing, we will produce any additional responsive records on a rolling basis.

Thank you.

From: Department of Public Health

City and County of San Francisco

************************************************************************

A document has been released for record request #20-1076:

* TomasAragon_CDPHemails_Batch5.pdf

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After April 11, you will need to sign in to view the document(s).

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From:

Requester,

We have conducted a diligent search for records responsive to your request. We have located responsive records, which are available to you here and have also been uploaded to NextRequest case #20-1076/ SOTF File 20059. Due to the need to continue reviewing, we will produce any additional responsive records on a rolling basis.

Thank you.

From: Department of Public Health

Requester,

We have conducted a diligent search for records responsive to your request. We have located responsive records, which are available to you here and have also been uploaded to NextRequest case #20-1076/ SOTF File 20059. Due to the need to continue reviewing, we will produce any additional responsive records on a rolling basis.

Thank you.

From: DPH Sunshine <dph.sunshine@sfdph.org<mailto:dph.sunshine@sfdph.org>>
Sent: Tuesday, March 1, 2022 1:15 PM
To: requests@muckrock.com<mailto:requests@muckrock.com>
Cc: SOTF, (BOS) <sotf@sfgov.org<mailto:sotf@sfgov.org>>
Subject: Public Records Request #20-1076

Hello,

I am responding on behalf of SFDPH regarding public records request #20-1076. We first wanted to offer our sincere our apologies. We were not aware that you did not have access to the NextRequest system to view the Department's response to your request. Your experience in the NextRequest system was the first we had heard of it being inaccessible and that you were unable to view our response to your records request seeking clarification. It was never our intention to withhold information.

DPH has identified a voluminous number of emails potentially responsive to your request. We would appreciate any narrowing down of the request. Could you please provide specific names of individuals that you'd request the information?

In the meantime, until we hear from you, to the best of abilities of our abilities, we will begin processing this request based on the narrowing by individuals as opposed to the entire Department. We will provide these documents to you on a rolling basis.

We have included the original request below for reference.

All communications with CDC or its employees (email, text, or chat) with any of the following

insensitive keywords: "coronavirus" "wuhan" "SARS" "COVID" "COVID19" "COVID-19" "SARS-CoV-2" "2019-nCOV" "nCOV" "severe acute respiratory syndrome" "viral pneumonia" "pneumonia of unknown origin" "novel pneumonia" from Nov 14, 2019 to present. For solely this request, any format showing all participants (TO, FROM, CC; and BCC for items sent by City employees) and preserving the body, attachments and images is sufficient.

2. All communications to or from the California DPH or its employees (email, text, or chat) with any of the following insensitive keywords: "coronavirus" "wuhan" "SARS" "COVID" "COVID19" "COVID-19" "SARS-CoV-2" "2019-nCOV" "nCOV" "severe acute respiratory syndrome" "viral pneumonia" "pneumonia of unknown origin" "novel pneumonia" from Nov 14, 2019 to present (request submitted: 2/28/20).

Thank you,

DPH Sunshine Team

From: Department of Public Health

City and County of San Francisco

************************************************************************

Documents have been released for record request #20-1076:

* TomasAragon_CDCemails_Batch2.pdf

* TomasAragon_CDCemails_Batch1.pdf

Document links are valid for one month.
After April 15, you will need to sign in to view the document(s).

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From: Department of Public Health

Requester,

We have conducted a diligent search for records responsive to your request. We have located responsive records, which are available to you here and have also been uploaded to NextRequest case #20-1076/ SOTF File 20059. Due to the need to continue reviewing, we will produce any additional responsive records on a rolling basis.

Thank you.

From: DPH Sunshine <dph.sunshine@sfdph.org<mailto:dph.sunshine@sfdph.org>>
Sent: Tuesday, March 1, 2022 1:15 PM
To: requests@muckrock.com<mailto:requests@muckrock.com>
Cc: SOTF, (BOS) <sotf@sfgov.org<mailto:sotf@sfgov.org>>
Subject: Public Records Request #20-1076

Hello,

I am responding on behalf of SFDPH regarding public records request #20-1076. We first wanted to offer our sincere our apologies. We were not aware that you did not have access to the NextRequest system to view the Department's response to your request. Your experience in the NextRequest system was the first we had heard of it being inaccessible and that you were unable to view our response to your records request seeking clarification. It was never our intention to withhold information.

DPH has identified a voluminous number of emails potentially responsive to your request. We would appreciate any narrowing down of the request. Could you please provide specific names of individuals that you'd request the information?

In the meantime, until we hear from you, to the best of abilities of our abilities, we will begin processing this request based on the narrowing by individuals as opposed to the entire Department. We will provide these documents to you on a rolling basis.

We have included the original request below for reference.

All communications with CDC or its employees (email, text, or chat) with any of the following

insensitive keywords: "coronavirus" "wuhan" "SARS" "COVID" "COVID19" "COVID-19" "SARS-CoV-2" "2019-nCOV" "nCOV" "severe acute respiratory syndrome" "viral pneumonia" "pneumonia of unknown origin" "novel pneumonia" from Nov 14, 2019 to present. For solely this request, any format showing all participants (TO, FROM, CC; and BCC for items sent by City employees) and preserving the body, attachments and images is sufficient.

2. All communications to or from the California DPH or its employees (email, text, or chat) with any of the following insensitive keywords: "coronavirus" "wuhan" "SARS" "COVID" "COVID19" "COVID-19" "SARS-CoV-2" "2019-nCOV" "nCOV" "severe acute respiratory syndrome" "viral pneumonia" "pneumonia of unknown origin" "novel pneumonia" from Nov 14, 2019 to present (request submitted: 2/28/20).

Thank you,

DPH Sunshine Team

From: Department of Public Health

City and County of San Francisco

************************************************************************

Documents have been released for record request #20-1076:

* TomasAragon_CDCemails_Batch3.pdf

* TomasAragon_CDCemails_Batch4.pdf

Document links are valid for one month.
After April 15, you will need to sign in to view the document(s).

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From: Department of Public Health

Requester,

We have conducted a diligent search for records responsive to your request. We have located responsive records, which are available to you here and have also been uploaded to NextRequest case #20-1076/ SOTF File 20059. Due to the need to continue reviewing, we will produce any additional responsive records on a rolling basis.

Thank you.

From: DPH Sunshine <dph.sunshine@sfdph.org<mailto:dph.sunshine@sfdph.org>>
Sent: Tuesday, March 1, 2022 1:15 PM
To: requests@muckrock.com<mailto:requests@muckrock.com>
Cc: SOTF, (BOS) <sotf@sfgov.org<mailto:sotf@sfgov.org>>
Subject: Public Records Request #20-1076

Hello,

I am responding on behalf of SFDPH regarding public records request #20-1076. We first wanted to offer our sincere our apologies. We were not aware that you did not have access to the NextRequest system to view the Department's response to your request. Your experience in the NextRequest system was the first we had heard of it being inaccessible and that you were unable to view our response to your records request seeking clarification. It was never our intention to withhold information.

DPH has identified a voluminous number of emails potentially responsive to your request. We would appreciate any narrowing down of the request. Could you please provide specific names of individuals that you'd request the information?

In the meantime, until we hear from you, to the best of abilities of our abilities, we will begin processing this request based on the narrowing by individuals as opposed to the entire Department. We will provide these documents to you on a rolling basis.

We have included the original request below for reference.

All communications with CDC or its employees (email, text, or chat) with any of the following

insensitive keywords: "coronavirus" "wuhan" "SARS" "COVID" "COVID19" "COVID-19" "SARS-CoV-2" "2019-nCOV" "nCOV" "severe acute respiratory syndrome" "viral pneumonia" "pneumonia of unknown origin" "novel pneumonia" from Nov 14, 2019 to present. For solely this request, any format showing all participants (TO, FROM, CC; and BCC for items sent by City employees) and preserving the body, attachments and images is sufficient.

2. All communications to or from the California DPH or its employees (email, text, or chat) with any of the following insensitive keywords: "coronavirus" "wuhan" "SARS" "COVID" "COVID19" "COVID-19" "SARS-CoV-2" "2019-nCOV" "nCOV" "severe acute respiratory syndrome" "viral pneumonia" "pneumonia of unknown origin" "novel pneumonia" from Nov 14, 2019 to present (request submitted: 2/28/20).

Thank you,

DPH Sunshine Team

From: Department of Public Health

City and County of San Francisco

************************************************************************

Documents have been released for record request #20-1076:

* TomasAragon_CDCemails_Batch7.pdf

* TomasAragon_CDCemails_Batch5.pdf

* TomasAragon_CDCemails_Batch6.pdf

Document links are valid for one month.
After April 16, you will need to sign in to view the document(s).

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From: Department of Public Health

Requester,

We have conducted a diligent search for records responsive to your request. We have located responsive records, which are available to you here and have also been uploaded to NextRequest case #20-1076/ SOTF File 20059. Due to the need to continue reviewing, we will produce any additional responsive records on a rolling basis.

Thank you.

From: DPH Sunshine <dph.sunshine@sfdph.org<mailto:dph.sunshine@sfdph.org>>
Sent: Tuesday, March 1, 2022 1:15 PM
To: requests@muckrock.com<mailto:requests@muckrock.com>
Cc: SOTF, (BOS) <sotf@sfgov.org<mailto:sotf@sfgov.org>>
Subject: Public Records Request #20-1076

Hello,

I am responding on behalf of SFDPH regarding public records request #20-1076. We first wanted to offer our sincere our apologies. We were not aware that you did not have access to the NextRequest system to view the Department's response to your request. Your experience in the NextRequest system was the first we had heard of it being inaccessible and that you were unable to view our response to your records request seeking clarification. It was never our intention to withhold information.

DPH has identified a voluminous number of emails potentially responsive to your request. We would appreciate any narrowing down of the request. Could you please provide specific names of individuals that you'd request the information?

In the meantime, until we hear from you, to the best of abilities of our abilities, we will begin processing this request based on the narrowing by individuals as opposed to the entire Department. We will provide these documents to you on a rolling basis.

We have included the original request below for reference.

All communications with CDC or its employees (email, text, or chat) with any of the following

insensitive keywords: "coronavirus" "wuhan" "SARS" "COVID" "COVID19" "COVID-19" "SARS-CoV-2" "2019-nCOV" "nCOV" "severe acute respiratory syndrome" "viral pneumonia" "pneumonia of unknown origin" "novel pneumonia" from Nov 14, 2019 to present. For solely this request, any format showing all participants (TO, FROM, CC; and BCC for items sent by City employees) and preserving the body, attachments and images is sufficient.

2. All communications to or from the California DPH or its employees (email, text, or chat) with any of the following insensitive keywords: "coronavirus" "wuhan" "SARS" "COVID" "COVID19" "COVID-19" "SARS-CoV-2" "2019-nCOV" "nCOV" "severe acute respiratory syndrome" "viral pneumonia" "pneumonia of unknown origin" "novel pneumonia" from Nov 14, 2019 to present (request submitted: 2/28/20).

Thank you,

DPH Sunshine Team

From: Department of Public Health

City and County of San Francisco

************************************************************************

Documents have been released for record request #20-1076:

* TomasAragon_CDCemails_Batch9.pdf

* TomasAragon_CDCemails_Batch8.pdf

* TomasAragon_CDCemails_Batch10.pdf

* TomasAragon_CDCemails_Batch11.pdf

Document links are valid for one month.
After April 16, you will need to sign in to view the document(s).

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From: Department of Public Health

Requester,

We have conducted a diligent search for records responsive to your request. We have located responsive records, which are available to you here and have also been uploaded to NextRequest case #20-1076/ SOTF File 20059. Due to the need to continue reviewing, we will produce any additional responsive records on a rolling basis.

Thank you.

From: DPH Sunshine <dph.sunshine@sfdph.org<mailto:dph.sunshine@sfdph.org>>
Sent: Tuesday, March 1, 2022 1:15 PM
To: requests@muckrock.com<mailto:requests@muckrock.com>
Cc: SOTF, (BOS) <sotf@sfgov.org<mailto:sotf@sfgov.org>>
Subject: Public Records Request #20-1076

Hello,

I am responding on behalf of SFDPH regarding public records request #20-1076. We first wanted to offer our sincere our apologies. We were not aware that you did not have access to the NextRequest system to view the Department's response to your request. Your experience in the NextRequest system was the first we had heard of it being inaccessible and that you were unable to view our response to your records request seeking clarification. It was never our intention to withhold information.

DPH has identified a voluminous number of emails potentially responsive to your request. We would appreciate any narrowing down of the request. Could you please provide specific names of individuals that you'd request the information?

In the meantime, until we hear from you, to the best of abilities of our abilities, we will begin processing this request based on the narrowing by individuals as opposed to the entire Department. We will provide these documents to you on a rolling basis.

We have included the original request below for reference.

All communications with CDC or its employees (email, text, or chat) with any of the following

insensitive keywords: "coronavirus" "wuhan" "SARS" "COVID" "COVID19" "COVID-19" "SARS-CoV-2" "2019-nCOV" "nCOV" "severe acute respiratory syndrome" "viral pneumonia" "pneumonia of unknown origin" "novel pneumonia" from Nov 14, 2019 to present. For solely this request, any format showing all participants (TO, FROM, CC; and BCC for items sent by City employees) and preserving the body, attachments and images is sufficient.

2. All communications to or from the California DPH or its employees (email, text, or chat) with any of the following insensitive keywords: "coronavirus" "wuhan" "SARS" "COVID" "COVID19" "COVID-19" "SARS-CoV-2" "2019-nCOV" "nCOV" "severe acute respiratory syndrome" "viral pneumonia" "pneumonia of unknown origin" "novel pneumonia" from Nov 14, 2019 to present (request submitted: 2/28/20).

Thank you,

DPH Sunshine Team

From: Department of Public Health

Requester,

We have conducted a diligent search for records responsive to your request. We have located responsive records, which are available to you here and have also been uploaded to NextRequest case #20-1076/ SOTF File 20059. Due to the need to continue reviewing, we will produce any additional responsive records on a rolling basis.

Thank you.

From: DPH Sunshine <dph.sunshine@sfdph.org<mailto:dph.sunshine@sfdph.org>>
Sent: Tuesday, March 1, 2022 1:15 PM
To: requests@muckrock.com<mailto:requests@muckrock.com>
Cc: SOTF, (BOS) <sotf@sfgov.org<mailto:sotf@sfgov.org>>
Subject: Public Records Request #20-1076

Hello,

I am responding on behalf of SFDPH regarding public records request #20-1076. We first wanted to offer our sincere our apologies. We were not aware that you did not have access to the NextRequest system to view the Department's response to your request. Your experience in the NextRequest system was the first we had heard of it being inaccessible and that you were unable to view our response to your records request seeking clarification. It was never our intention to withhold information.

DPH has identified a voluminous number of emails potentially responsive to your request. We would appreciate any narrowing down of the request. Could you please provide specific names of individuals that you'd request the information?

In the meantime, until we hear from you, to the best of abilities of our abilities, we will begin processing this request based on the narrowing by individuals as opposed to the entire Department. We will provide these documents to you on a rolling basis.

We have included the original request below for reference.

All communications with CDC or its employees (email, text, or chat) with any of the following

insensitive keywords: "coronavirus" "wuhan" "SARS" "COVID" "COVID19" "COVID-19" "SARS-CoV-2" "2019-nCOV" "nCOV" "severe acute respiratory syndrome" "viral pneumonia" "pneumonia of unknown origin" "novel pneumonia" from Nov 14, 2019 to present. For solely this request, any format showing all participants (TO, FROM, CC; and BCC for items sent by City employees) and preserving the body, attachments and images is sufficient.

2. All communications to or from the California DPH or its employees (email, text, or chat) with any of the following insensitive keywords: "coronavirus" "wuhan" "SARS" "COVID" "COVID19" "COVID-19" "SARS-CoV-2" "2019-nCOV" "nCOV" "severe acute respiratory syndrome" "viral pneumonia" "pneumonia of unknown origin" "novel pneumonia" from Nov 14, 2019 to present (request submitted: 2/28/20).

Thank you,

DPH Sunshine Team

From: Department of Public Health

Requester,

We have conducted a diligent search for records responsive to your request. We have located responsive records, which are available to you here and have also been uploaded to NextRequest case #20-1076/ SOTF File 20059. This concludes your public records request.

Thank you.

From: DPH Sunshine <dph.sunshine@sfdph.org<mailto:dph.sunshine@sfdph.org>>
Sent: Tuesday, March 1, 2022 1:15 PM
To: requests@muckrock.com<mailto:requests@muckrock.com>
Cc: SOTF, (BOS) <sotf@sfgov.org<mailto:sotf@sfgov.org>>
Subject: Public Records Request #20-1076

Hello,

I am responding on behalf of SFDPH regarding public records request #20-1076. We first wanted to offer our sincere our apologies. We were not aware that you did not have access to the NextRequest system to view the Department's response to your request. Your experience in the NextRequest system was the first we had heard of it being inaccessible and that you were unable to view our response to your records request seeking clarification. It was never our intention to withhold information.

DPH has identified a voluminous number of emails potentially responsive to your request. We would appreciate any narrowing down of the request. Could you please provide specific names of individuals that you'd request the information?

In the meantime, until we hear from you, to the best of abilities of our abilities, we will begin processing this request based on the narrowing by individuals as opposed to the entire Department. We will provide these documents to you on a rolling basis.

We have included the original request below for reference.

All communications with CDC or its employees (email, text, or chat) with any of the following

insensitive keywords: "coronavirus" "wuhan" "SARS" "COVID" "COVID19" "COVID-19" "SARS-CoV-2" "2019-nCOV" "nCOV" "severe acute respiratory syndrome" "viral pneumonia" "pneumonia of unknown origin" "novel pneumonia" from Nov 14, 2019 to present. For solely this request, any format showing all participants (TO, FROM, CC; and BCC for items sent by City employees) and preserving the body, attachments and images is sufficient.

2. All communications to or from the California DPH or its employees (email, text, or chat) with any of the following insensitive keywords: "coronavirus" "wuhan" "SARS" "COVID" "COVID19" "COVID-19" "SARS-CoV-2" "2019-nCOV" "nCOV" "severe acute respiratory syndrome" "viral pneumonia" "pneumonia of unknown origin" "novel pneumonia" from Nov 14, 2019 to present (request submitted: 2/28/20).

Thank you,

DPH Sunshine Team

From: Department of Public Health

Good Afternoon:

You are receiving this notice because you are named as a Complainant or Respondent in the following complaints scheduled before the Sunshine Ordinance Task Force to: 1) hear the merits of the complaint; 2) issue a determination; and/or 3) consider referrals from a Task Force Committee. Please confirm your attendance for this hearing with the Sunshine Task Force Administrator.

Date: April 6, 2022

Location: Remote Meeting

Time: 4:00 p.m.

Complainants: Your attendance is required for this meeting/hearing.

Respondents/Departments: Pursuant to Section 67.21 (e) of the Ordinance, the custodian of records or a representative of your department, who can speak to the matter, is required at the meeting/hearing.

Complaints:

File No. 21085: Complaint filed by Kevin Carroll, the Hotel Council of San Francisco and Matthew C. Alvarez against Angela Calvillo, Clerk of the Board of Supervisors for allegedly violating Administrative Code (Sunshine Ordinance), Section(s) 67.1 and 67.7 by failing to provide fair and equitable access to members of the public (Board of Supervisors, Budget and Finance June 25, 2021, meeting). Action: Shall SOTF continue File No. 21085 to the April 6, 2022, meeting.

File No. 20059: Complaint filed by Anonymous against the Department of Public Health for allegedly violating Administrative Code (Sunshine Ordinance), Section 67.25 by failing to respond to an Immediate Disclosure request in a timely and complete manner.

File No. 21116 Complaint filed by Anonymous against Department of Public Health (DPH) for allegedly violating Administrative Code (Sunshine Ordinance), Section(s) 67.21, by failing respond to a public records request in a timely and/or complete manner.

File No. 21124 Complaint filed by Marc Norton against the Department of Public Health (DPH) for allegedly violating Administrative Code (Sunshine Ordinance), Section(s) 67.21, by failing to respond to a public records request in a timely and/or complete manner.

File No. 21159: Complaint filed by Bob Planthold against the Department of Building Inspection Commission (Access Appeals Commission) for allegedly violating Administrative Code (Sunshine Ordinance), Section(s) 67.16 by failing to post meeting minutes (2000 through 2011).

File No. 22017: CONSENT AGENDA - The Sunshine Task Force (Committee) shall review File Nos, 21021, 21036, 21087, 21095, 21099, 21103, 21118, to determine if the Sunshine Ordinance Task Force has jurisdiction and determine if the requested records are public pursuant to Administrative Code (Sunshine Ordinance), Sections 67.21(e) and whether or not any person has violated the Sunshine Ordinance, California Public Records Act, or Brown Act pursuant to Administrative Code (Sunshine Ordinance) Section 67.30(c), and, if applicable, to issue an Order of Determination and refer matters to the Compliance and Amendments Committee for monitoring. The Complainant and Respondent are not required to attend the April 6, 2022, Sunshine Task Force meeting but may attend to provide testimony related to the above listed determinations.

a. File No. 21021 - Complaint filed by Wynship Hillier against the Behavioral Health Commission for allegedly violating Administrative Code (Sunshine Ordinance), Sections 67.7 and 67.9, by failing to provide meaningful and sufficiently clear agenda descriptions, distribute agenda packets to members of the public, 67.15 by failing to provide an opportunity for public comment on each item on the agenda, and California Public Records Act by failing meeting with quorum and failing to list disability information on the agenda.

b. File No. 21036 - Complaint filed by Wynship Hillier against the Behavioral Health Commission for allegedly violating Administrative Code (Sunshine Ordinance), Sections 67.7(a) by failing to post the Agenda 72 hours in advance of the meeting and failure to provide a description of each item of business; 67.7(b) failing to post documents on the website or make available to the public; agenda; 67.9(a) failure to post relevant documents on the internet; 67.15(c) failing to allow public comment; and 67.21(e) failing to make.

c. File No. 21087 - Complaint filed by Wynship Hillier against the Behavioral Health Commission for allegedly violating Administrative Code (Sunshine Ordinance), Sections 67.7, 67.9, and 67.15, by failing to make documents available to the public as soon as they are available, by failing to list proposed actions on the agenda, acting on a matter not listed on the agenda and by failing to approve a rule allowing the public to address the body; and California Government Code 54954(a) by failing to provide the time and place for holding regular meetings. (January 20, 2021, February 3, 2021, February 9, 2021, February 18, 2021, and June 12, 2021, meetings).

d. File No. 21095 - Complaint filed by Wynship Hillier against the Behavioral Health Commission for allegedly violating Administrative Code (Sunshine Ordinance), Sections 67.7, 67.9, and 67.15 and California Government Code Sections 54953 and 54954(a)(1) by failing to refer/post explanatory documents provided to the policy body, failing to agenda and other documents on file available to the public, failing to provide a brief description of each item of business, failing to make documents available on the internet, failing to take a roll call vote, failing to specify for each item of business the proposed action or statement that the item is for discussion only, failing to adopt a rule providing that each person wishing to speak on an item before the body shall be permitted to be heard once for up to three minutes, failing to include a message for people with disabilities on the agenda, failing to include language on the agenda regarding Sunshine Rights, and failing to include the contact information for the Sunshine Ordinance Task Force. (February 3,2021, February 9, 2021, and February 17, 2021, meetings).

e. File No. 21099 - Complaint filed by Wynship Hillier against the Behavioral Health Commission for allegedly violating Administrative Code (Sunshine Ordinance), Sections 67.7, 67.9, and 67.15 and California Government Code Sections 54953 and 54954(a)(1) by failing to refer/post explanatory documents provided to the policy body, failing to agenda and other documents on file available to the public, failing to provide a brief description of each item of business, failing to make documents available on the internet, failing to take a roll call vote, failing to specify for each item of business the proposed action or statement that the item is for discussion only, failing to adopt a rule providing that each person wishing to speak on an item before the body shall be permitted to be heard once for up to three minutes, failing to include a message for people with disabilities on the agenda, failing to include language on the agenda regarding Sunshine Rights, and failing to include the contact information for the Sunshine Ordinance Task Force. (February 9, 2021, Executive Committee meetings).

f. File No. 21103 - Complaint filed by Wynship Hillier against the Behavioral Health Commission for allegedly violating Administrative Code (Sunshine Ordinance), Sections 67.7, 67.9, and 67.15 and California Government Code Sections 54953 and 54954(a)(1) by failing to refer/post explanatory documents provided to the policy body, failing to agenda and other documents on file available to the public, failing to provide a brief description of each item of business, failing to allow an opportunity for public comment on each on the agenda, failing to take a roll call vote, failing to make documents available on the internet, failing to take a roll call vote, failing to specify for each item of business the proposed action or statement that the item is for discussion only, failing to adopt a rule providing that each person wishing to speak on an item before the body shall be permitted to be heard once for up to three minutes, and failing to announce agenda changes at the beginning of the meeting or as soon thereafter as possible. (February 17, 2021, meetings).

g. File No. 21118 - Complaint filed by Wynship Hillier against the Behavioral Health Commission for allegedly violating Administrative Code (Sunshine Ordinance), Sections 67.7, 67.9 and 67.15 and California Government Code Sections 54953(a)(b) and 54954(a) by failing to refer/post explanatory documents provided to the policy body, failing to provide a brief description of each item of business, failing to take a roll call vote, and failing to adopt a rule providing that each person wishing to speak on an item before the body shall be permitted to be heard once for up to three minutes,. (March 17, 2021, Behavioral Health Commission and March 9, 2021, Implementation and Executive Committee).

For inclusion in the agenda packet, supplemental/supporting documents must be received by 5:00 pm, March 31, 2022.

Cheryl Leger

Assistant Clerk, Board of Supervisors

Tel: 415-554-7724

<http://www.sfbos.org/index.aspx?page=104> Click here<http://www.sfbos.org/index.aspx?page=104> to complete a Board of Supervisors Customer Service Satisfaction form.

The Legislative Research Center<http://www.sfbos.org/index.aspx?page=9681> provides 24-hour access to Board of Supervisors legislation, and archived matters since August 1998.

Disclosures: Personal information that is provided in communications to the Board of Supervisors is subject to disclosure under the California Public Records Act and the San Francisco Sunshine Ordinance. Personal information provided will not be redacted. Members of the public are not required to provide personal identifying information when they communicate with the Board of Supervisors and its committees. All written or oral communications that members of the public submit to the Clerk's Office regarding pending legislation or hearings will be made available to all members of the public for inspection and copying. The Clerk's Office does not redact any information from these submissions. This means that personal information-including names, phone numbers, addresses and similar information that a member of the public elects to submit to the Board and its committees-may appear on the Board of Supervisors website or in other public documents that members of the public may inspect or copy.

From: Department of Public Health

Good Afternoon:

The agenda and packet of the Sunshine Ordinance Task Force April 6, 2022, 4:00 p.m. meeting is online at the following link:

https://sfgov.org/sunshine/sites/default/files/sotf_040622_agenda.pdf

The packet material is linked to each item listed on the agenda marked with an "attachment". Click anywhere on the title of the item to open the link to the pdf of the packet material in question.

Cheryl Leger
Assistant Clerk, Board of Supervisors
Cheryl.Leger@sfgov.org<mailto:Cheryl.Leger@sfgov.org>
Tel: 415-554-7724
Fax: 415-554-5163
www.sfbos.org<http://www.sfbos.org>

[CustomerSatisfactionIcon]<http://www.sfbos.org/index.aspx?page=104> Click here<http://www.sfbos.org/index.aspx?page=104> to complete a Board of Supervisors Customer Service Satisfaction form.

The Legislative Research Center<http://www.sfbos.org/index.aspx?page=9681> provides 24-hour access to Board of Supervisors legislation, and archived matters since August 1998.

Disclosures: Personal information that is provided in communications to the Board of Supervisors is subject to disclosure under the California Public Records Act and the San Francisco Sunshine Ordinance. Personal information provided will not be redacted. Members of the public are not required to provide personal identifying information when they communicate with the Board of Supervisors and its committees. All written or oral communications that members of the public submit to the Clerk's Office regarding pending legislation or hearings will be made available to all members of the public for inspection and copying. The Clerk's Office does not redact any information from these submissions. This means that personal information-including names, phone numbers, addresses and similar information that a member of the public elects to submit to the Board and its committees-may appear on the Board of Supervisors website or in other public documents that members of the public may inspect or copy.

From: Department of Public Health

Dear Anonymous #3, Ms. Sophie Tran and Allison Hawkes: Please see the motion below from Wednesday's Sunshine Task Force hearing.

Moved by Vice-Chair Yankee, second by Member Schmidt, that the Department of Public Health violated Sunshine Ordinance, Section(s) 67.21(b) by failing to respond to a public records request in a timely and/or complete manner; 67.25 failing to follow response requirements of an Immediate Disclosure Request, 67.26 by failing to keep withholdings to a minimum and failing to provide email addresses, email attachments, texts and chats, and a redaction log or footnotes. The SOTF orders the department to turn over the remaining records on a rolling basis and to refers the matter to the Compliance and Amendments Committee to monitor compliance with the order.

Cheryl Leger
Assistant Clerk, Board of Supervisors
Cheryl.Leger@sfgov.org<mailto:Cheryl.Leger@sfgov.org>
Tel: 415-554-7724
Fax: 415-554-5163
www.sfbos.org

[CustomerSatisfactionIcon]<http://www.sfbos.org/index.aspx?page=104> Click here<http://www.sfbos.org/index.aspx?page=104> to complete a Board of Supervisors Customer Service Satisfaction form.

The Legislative Research Center<http://www.sfbos.org/index.aspx?page=9681> provides 24-hour access to Board of Supervisors legislation, and archived matters since August 1998.

Disclosures: Personal information that is provided in communications to the Board of Supervisors is subject to disclosure under the California Public Records Act and the San Francisco Sunshine Ordinance. Personal information provided will not be redacted. Members of the public are not required to provide personal identifying information when they communicate with the Board of Supervisors and its committees. All written or oral communications that members of the public submit to the Clerk's Office regarding pending legislation or hearings will be made available to all members of the public for inspection and copying. The Clerk's Office does not redact any information from these submissions. This means that personal information-including names, phone numbers, addresses and similar information that a member of the public elects to submit to the Board and its committees-may appear on the Board of Supervisors website or in other public documents that members of the public may inspect or copy.

From: Department of Public Health

City and County of San Francisco

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Record request #20-1076 has been reopened. You can see it anytime at the link below.

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From: Department of Public Health

Good Afternoon:

You are receiving this notice because you are named as a Complainant or Respondent in one of the following complaints scheduled before the Compliance and Amendments Committee to: 1) hear the merits of the complaint; 2) issue a determination; and/or 3) consider referrals from a Task Force Committee. Please confirm your attendance for this hearing.

Date: April 26, 2022

Location: Remote meeting; participant information to be included on the Agenda cover page.

Time: 4:30 p.m.

Complainants: Your attendance is required for this meeting/hearing.

Respondents/Departments: Pursuant to Section 67.21 (e) of the Ordinance, the custodian of records or a representative of your department, who can speak to the matter, is required at the meeting/hearing.

Complaints:

File No. 20059: Complaint filed by Anonymous against the Department of Public Health for allegedly violating Administrative Code (Sunshine Ordinance), Section 67.25 by failing to respond to an Immediate Disclosure request in a timely and complete manner.

File No. 21054: Complaint filed by Patrick Monette-Shaw against Grant Colfax, Veronica Vien and the Department of Public Health for violating Administrative Code (Sunshine Ordinance), Section 67.21 by failing respond to a public records request in a timely and/or complete manner.

File No. 21069: Complaint filed by Mark Sullivan against David Steinberg and the Department of Public Works for allegedly violating Administrative Code (Sunshine Ordinance), Sections 67.21(b)(c) by failing to respond to a records request in a timely and/or complete manner and by failing to assist the requester, 67.25(a) by failing to respond to an Immediate Disclosure Request in a timely and/or complete manner, CPRA Section 6253(c) by failing to notify the requestor of the possession of records of the agency and by failing to notify the person making the request of the determination and the reasons for withholding, CPRA Section 6253.1(a)(1) by failing to identify records and information that are responsive to the request or to the purpose of the request.

For a document to be considered, it must be received at least five (5) working days before the hearing (see attached Public Complaint Procedure). For inclusion into the agenda packet, supplemental/supporting documents must be received by 5:00 pm, April 21, 2022.

Cheryl Leger

Assistant Clerk, Board of Supervisors

Tel: 415-554-7724

<http://www.sfbos.org/index.aspx?page=104> Click here<http://www.sfbos.org/index.aspx?page=104> to complete a Board of Supervisors Customer Service Satisfaction form.

The Legislative Research Center<http://www.sfbos.org/index.aspx?page=9681> provides 24-hour access to Board of Supervisors legislation, and archived matters since August 1998.

Disclosures: Personal information that is provided in communications to the Board of Supervisors is subject to disclosure under the California Public Records Act and the San Francisco Sunshine Ordinance. Personal information provided will not be redacted. Members of the public are not required to provide personal identifying information when they communicate with the Board of Supervisors and its committees. All written or oral communications that members of the public submit to the Clerk's Office regarding pending legislation or hearings will be made available to all members of the public for inspection and copying. The Clerk's Office does not redact any information from these submissions. This means that personal information-including names, phone numbers, addresses and similar information that a member of the public elects to submit to the Board and its committees-may appear on the Board of Supervisors website or in other public documents that members of the public may inspect or copy.

From: Department of Public Health

City and County of San Francisco

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A document has been released for record request #20-1076 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.

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From: Department of Public Health

Requester,

We have conducted a diligent search for records responsive to your request. We have located responsive records, which are available to you here and have also been uploaded to NextRequest case #20-1076/ SOTF File 20059. Due to the need to continue reviewing, we will produce any additional responsive records on a rolling basis.

Thank you.

From: Department of Public Health

City and County of San Francisco

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A document has been released for record request #20-1076 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 and have also been uploaded to NextRequest case #20-1076/ SOTF File 20059. Due to the need to continue reviewing, we will produce any additional responsive records on a rolling basis.

We have redacted parts of the records provided in response to your request here because such records contain protected health information. Cal. Govt. Code Secs. 6254(c), 6254(k); Health Insurance and Accountability Act of 1996, 45 C.F.R. Secs.160, 164; Cal. Civ. Code Secs. 56 et seq.; California Constitution, Art. I, Sec. 1.

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From: Department of Public Health

Requester,

We have conducted a diligent search for records responsive to your request. We have located responsive records, which are available to you here and have also been uploaded to NextRequest case #20-1076/ SOTF File 20059. Due to the need to continue reviewing, we will produce any additional responsive records on a rolling basis.

We have redacted parts of the records provided in response to your request here because such records contain protected health information. Cal. Govt. Code Secs. 6254(c), 6254(k); Health Insurance and Accountability Act of 1996, 45 C.F.R. Secs.160, 164; Cal. Civ. Code Secs. 56 et seq.; California Constitution, Art. I, Sec. 1.

Thank you.

From: Department of Public Health

Dear Sunshine Ordinance Task Force:

DPH joined the full task force meeting on April 6th to discuss File No. 20059. DPH has previously provided the requester thousands of pages of responsive records and will continue to share responsive documents on a rolling basis.

This includes emails with attachments. Any email PDFs that include attachments are indicated with an "Attachments" line item at the top of the email. The attachment file names are all active links that can be clicked on to open the files in a new PDF tab or window. An example is pictured below:

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Regarding Dr. Aragon's texts, the custodians of records who managed this request left the Department in September and December of 2021, respectively. When our current team began to work on responding to public records, Dr. Aragon had been gone from the Department for over a year. Dr. Aragon left DPH during the height of a global pandemic and all City efforts at that time were focused on addressing the task of saving lives. We have conducted a thorough search and do not have Dr. Aragon's texts. We apologize for not preserving these records when the request was made. DPH looks forward to resolution guidance on this matter from the Sunshine Task Force.

Finally, we would like to clarify early conversations that the requester had with DPH in March 2020, regarding whether requester would narrow his request. In the initial exchange between the requester and the then custodian of records, 25,000 was the estimated number for all documents, including duplications, not a final count to be used as a measure of documents to be produced. We will continue searching and providing responsive documents on a rolling basis.

Thank you,
DPH Sunshine Team

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To: requests@muckrock.com<mailto:requests@muckrock.com> <requests@muckrock.com<mailto:requests@muckrock.com>>; Tran, Sophie (DPH) <sophie.tran@sfdph.org<mailto:sophie.tran@sfdph.org>>; Hawkes, Alison (DPH) <alison.hawkes@sfdph.org<mailto:alison.hawkes@sfdph.org>>; pmonette-shaw <pmonette-shaw@earthlink.net<mailto:pmonette-shaw@earthlink.net>>; sfneighborhoods.net <info@sfneighborhoods.net<mailto:info@sfneighborhoods.net>>; Steinberg, David (DPW) <david.steinberg@sfdpw.org<mailto:david.steinberg@sfdpw.org>>
Subject: SOTF - Notice of Appearance - Compliance and Amendments Committee; April 26, 2022 4:30 p.m.

Good Afternoon:

You are receiving this notice because you are named as a Complainant or Respondent in one of the following complaints scheduled before the Compliance and Amendments Committee to: 1) hear the merits of the complaint; 2) issue a determination; and/or 3) consider referrals from a Task Force Committee. Please confirm your attendance for this hearing.

Date: April 26, 2022

Location: Remote meeting; participant information to be included on the Agenda cover page.

Time: 4:30 p.m.

Complainants: Your attendance is required for this meeting/hearing.

Respondents/Departments: Pursuant to Section 67.21 (e) of the Ordinance, the custodian of records or a representative of your department, who can speak to the matter, is required at the meeting/hearing.

Complaints:

File No. 20059: Complaint filed by Anonymous against the Department of Public Health for allegedly violating Administrative Code (Sunshine Ordinance), Section 67.25 by failing to respond to an Immediate Disclosure request in a timely and complete manner.

File No. 21054: Complaint filed by Patrick Monette-Shaw against Grant Colfax, Veronica Vien and the Department of Public Health for violating Administrative Code (Sunshine Ordinance), Section 67.21 by failing respond to a public records request in a timely and/or complete manner.

File No. 21069: Complaint filed by Mark Sullivan against David Steinberg and the Department of Public Works for allegedly violating Administrative Code (Sunshine Ordinance), Sections 67.21(b)(c) by failing to respond to a records request in a timely and/or complete manner and by failing to assist the requester, 67.25(a) by failing to respond to an Immediate Disclosure Request in a timely and/or complete manner, CPRA Section 6253(c) by failing to notify the requestor of the possession of records of the agency and by failing to notify the person making the request of the determination and the reasons for withholding, CPRA Section 6253.1(a)(1) by failing to identify records and information that are responsive to the request or to the purpose of the request.

For a document to be considered, it must be received at least five (5) working days before the hearing (see attached Public Complaint Procedure). For inclusion into the agenda packet, supplemental/supporting documents must be received by 5:00 pm, April 21, 2022.

Cheryl Leger

Assistant Clerk, Board of Supervisors

Tel: 415-554-7724

[CustomerSatisfactionIcon]<http://www.sfbos.org/index.aspx?page=104> Click here<http://www.sfbos.org/index.aspx?page=104> to complete a Board of Supervisors Customer Service Satisfaction form.

The Legislative Research Center<http://www.sfbos.org/index.aspx?page=9681> provides 24-hour access to Board of Supervisors legislation, and archived matters since August 1998.

Disclosures: Personal information that is provided in communications to the Board of Supervisors is subject to disclosure under the California Public Records Act and the San Francisco Sunshine Ordinance. Personal information provided will not be redacted. Members of the public are not required to provide personal identifying information when they communicate with the Board of Supervisors and its committees. All written or oral communications that members of the public submit to the Clerk's Office regarding pending legislation or hearings will be made available to all members of the public for inspection and copying. The Clerk's Office does not redact any information from these submissions. This means that personal information-including names, phone numbers, addresses and similar information that a member of the public elects to submit to the Board and its committees-may appear on the Board of Supervisors website or in other public documents that members of the public may inspect or copy.

From: Department of Public Health

Good Morning:

The agenda and packet for the of the Sunshine Task Force Compliance Amendments Committee 4:30 p.m. meeting is online at the following link:

https://sfgov.org/sunshine/sites/default/files/cac042622_agenda.pdf

The packet material is linked to each item listed on the agenda marked with an “attachment”. Click anywhere on the title of the item to open the link to the pdf of the packet material in question.

Cheryl Leger

Assistant Clerk, Board of Supervisors

Cheryl.Leger@sfgov.org<mailto:Cheryl.Leger@sfgov.org>

Tel: 415-554-7724

Fax: 415-554-5163

www.sfbos.org

<http://www.sfbos.org/index.aspx?page=104> Click here<http://www.sfbos.org/index.aspx?page=104> to complete a Board of Supervisors Customer Service Satisfaction form.

The Legislative Research Center<http://www.sfbos.org/index.aspx?page=9681> provides 24-hour access to Board of Supervisors legislation, and archived matters since August 1998.

Disclosures: Personal information that is provided in communications to the Board of Supervisors is subject to disclosure under the California Public Records Act and the San Francisco Sunshine Ordinance. Personal information provided will not be redacted. Members of the public are not required to provide personal identifying information when they communicate with the Board of Supervisors and its committees. All written or oral communications that members of the public submit to the Clerk's Office regarding pending legislation or hearings will be made available to all members of the public for inspection and copying. The Clerk's Office does not redact any information from these submissions. This means that personal information—including names, phone numbers, addresses and similar information that a member of the public elects to submit to the Board and its committees—may appear on the Board of Supervisors website or in other public documents that members of the public may inspect or copy.

From: Department of Public Health

City and County of San Francisco

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A document has been released for record request #20-1076 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.

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From: Department of Public Health

Requester,

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.

Thank you.

From: DPH Sunshine <dph.sunshine@sfdph.org<mailto:dph.sunshine@sfdph.org>>
Sent: Tuesday, March 1, 2022 1:15 PM
To: requests@muckrock.com<mailto:requests@muckrock.com>
Cc: SOTF, (BOS) <sotf@sfgov.org<mailto:sotf@sfgov.org>>
Subject: Public Records Request #20-1076

Hello,

I am responding on behalf of SFDPH regarding public records request #20-1076. We first wanted to offer our sincere our apologies. We were not aware that you did not have access to the NextRequest system to view the Department's response to your request. Your experience in the NextRequest system was the first we had heard of it being inaccessible and that you were unable to view our response to your records request seeking clarification. It was never our intention to withhold information.

DPH has identified a voluminous number of emails potentially responsive to your request. We would appreciate any narrowing down of the request. Could you please provide specific names of individuals that you'd request the information?

In the meantime, until we hear from you, to the best of abilities of our abilities, we will begin processing this request based on the narrowing by individuals as opposed to the entire Department. We will provide these documents to you on a rolling basis.

We have included the original request below for reference.

All communications with CDC or its employees (email, text, or chat) with any of the following

insensitive keywords: "coronavirus" "wuhan" "SARS" "COVID" "COVID19" "COVID-19" "SARS-CoV-2" "2019-nCOV" "nCOV" "severe acute respiratory syndrome" "viral pneumonia" "pneumonia of unknown origin" "novel pneumonia" from Nov 14, 2019 to present. For solely this request, any format showing all participants (TO, FROM, CC; and BCC for items sent by City employees) and preserving the body, attachments and images is sufficient.

2. All communications to or from the California DPH or its employees (email, text, or chat) with any of the following insensitive keywords: "coronavirus" "wuhan" "SARS" "COVID" "COVID19" "COVID-19" "SARS-CoV-2" "2019-nCOV" "nCOV" "severe acute respiratory syndrome" "viral pneumonia" "pneumonia of unknown origin" "novel pneumonia" from Nov 14, 2019 to present (request submitted: 2/28/20).

Thank you,

DPH Sunshine Team

From: Department of Public Health

City and County of San Francisco

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Documents have been released for record request #20-1076 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 and have also been uploaded to NextRequest case #20-1076/ SOTF File 20059. Due to the need to continue reviewing, we will produce any additional responsive records on a rolling basis.

Regarding the email attachments on certain redacted/flattened PDFs that have been sent to you already, our team is working on identifying and downloading the attachments to be sent as separate files. Thank you for your patience.

* Fw Coronavirus CDPH Talking Points- Sharing.pdf

* Fwd 2019-nCoV T-HAN Traveler Screening Postcard.pdf

* StaffEmails_Batch4.pdf

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After May 28, you will need to sign in to view the document(s).

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From: Department of Public Health

We have conducted a diligent search for records responsive to your request. We have located responsive records, which are available to you here and have also been uploaded to NextRequest case #20-1076/ SOTF File 20059. Due to the need to continue reviewing, we will produce any additional responsive records on a rolling basis.

Regarding the email attachments on certain redacted/flattened PDFs that have been sent to you already, our team is working on identifying and downloading those attachments to be sent as separate files. Thank you for your patience.

From: Department of Public Health

Requester,

This message is a follow up to the April 26 SOTF Hearing. Our team has determined that 2 of the PDF batches of responsive records that we have provided thus far contain redactions and therefore the embedded links were "flattened"/deactivated.

For the PDF filename "StaffEmails_Batch2_Redacted.pdf" we have re-attached that here along with all of its corresponding attachments as separate files. In the future, when we redact portions of PDFs, we will not "flatten" the files.

Please note, there are 2 .png attachments that are actually embedded email signature images (screenshot example provided below) and we weren't able to download those as separate files. They should be visible to you within the body of the emails that contain that email signature.
[cid:image001.png@01D85BB2.1CD5F580]

We will work on identifying, downloading, and sending you the attachments for the 1 other PDF that contained flattened links.

Thank you.

From: Department of Public Health

Requester,

This message is a follow up to the April 26 SOTF Hearing. Our team has determined that 2 of the PDF batches of responsive records that we have provided thus far contain redactions and therefore the embedded links were "flattened"/deactivated.

We sent you the attachments for 1 of those 2 PDFs on Friday, April 29th @ 10:17 am. With this email we are enclosing the attachments for the 2nd PDF, filename "TomasAragon_CDPHemails_Batch1_Redacted.pdf"

Of note, there were multiple instances wherein more than 1 page of the "TomasAragon_CDPHemails_Batch1_Redacted.pdf" file contains the same attachment:

* Pages 26, 29 and 30
* Pages 62 and 63
* Pages 65, 71, and 75
* Pages 76 and 84

Please also note, the .png attachments are actually embedded email signature images and we weren't able to download those as separate files. They should be visible to you within the body of the emails that contain that email signature.

This concludes our correction of the problem with attachments that you described at the SOTF hearing. In the future, when we redact portions of PDFs, we will not "flatten" the files.

Thank you.

Warning An exclamation point.

There are too many files to display on this communication. See all files

From: Department of Public Health

City and County of San Francisco

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A document has been released for record request #20-1076 along with the following message:

Requester,

We have conducted a diligent search for records responsive to your request. We have located responsive records, which are available to you here and have also been uploaded to NextRequest case #20-1076/ SOTF File 20059. We have withheld some records provided in response to your request here because such records contain protected health information. Cal. Govt. Code Secs. 6254(c), 6254(k); Health Insurance and Accountability Act of 1996, 45 C.F.R. Secs.160, 164; Cal. Civ. Code Secs. 56 et seq.; California Constitution, Art. I, Sec. 1.

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

Thank you.

* StaffEmails_Batch5.pdf

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After June 10, you will need to sign in to view the document(s).

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From: Department of Public Health

Requester,

We have conducted a diligent search for records responsive to your request. We have located responsive records, which are available to you here and have also been uploaded to NextRequest case #20-1076/ SOTF File 20059. We have withheld some records provided in response to your request here because such records contain protected health information. Cal. Govt. Code Secs. 6254(c), 6254(k); Health Insurance and Accountability Act of 1996, 45 C.F.R. Secs.160, 164; Cal. Civ. Code Secs. 56 et seq.; California Constitution, Art. I, Sec. 1.

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

Thank you.

From: DPH Sunshine <dph.sunshine@sfdph.org<mailto:dph.sunshine@sfdph.org>>
Sent: Tuesday, March 1, 2022 1:15 PM
To: requests@muckrock.com<mailto:requests@muckrock.com>
Cc: SOTF, (BOS) <sotf@sfgov.org<mailto:sotf@sfgov.org>>
Subject: Public Records Request #20-1076

Hello,

I am responding on behalf of SFDPH regarding public records request #20-1076. We first wanted to offer our sincere our apologies. We were not aware that you did not have access to the NextRequest system to view the Department's response to your request. Your experience in the NextRequest system was the first we had heard of it being inaccessible and that you were unable to view our response to your records request seeking clarification. It was never our intention to withhold information.

DPH has identified a voluminous number of emails potentially responsive to your request. We would appreciate any narrowing down of the request. Could you please provide specific names of individuals that you'd request the information?

In the meantime, until we hear from you, to the best of abilities of our abilities, we will begin processing this request based on the narrowing by individuals as opposed to the entire Department. We will provide these documents to you on a rolling basis.

We have included the original request below for reference.

All communications with CDC or its employees (email, text, or chat) with any of the following

insensitive keywords: "coronavirus" "wuhan" "SARS" "COVID" "COVID19" "COVID-19" "SARS-CoV-2" "2019-nCOV" "nCOV" "severe acute respiratory syndrome" "viral pneumonia" "pneumonia of unknown origin" "novel pneumonia" from Nov 14, 2019 to present. For solely this request, any format showing all participants (TO, FROM, CC; and BCC for items sent by City employees) and preserving the body, attachments and images is sufficient.

2. All communications to or from the California DPH or its employees (email, text, or chat) with any of the following insensitive keywords: "coronavirus" "wuhan" "SARS" "COVID" "COVID19" "COVID-19" "SARS-CoV-2" "2019-nCOV" "nCOV" "severe acute respiratory syndrome" "viral pneumonia" "pneumonia of unknown origin" "novel pneumonia" from Nov 14, 2019 to present (request submitted: 2/28/20).

Thank you,

DPH Sunshine Team

From: Department of Public Health

City and County of San Francisco

************************************************************************

A document has been released for record request #20-1076 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 and have also been uploaded to NextRequest case #20-1076/ SOTF File 20059. Due to the need to continue reviewing, we will produce any additional responsive records on a rolling basis.

* StaffEmails_Batch6.pdf

Document links are valid for one month.
After June 17, you will need to sign in to view the document(s).

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From: Department of Public Health

Requester,

We have conducted a diligent search for records responsive to your request. We have located responsive records, which are available to you here and have also been uploaded to NextRequest case #20-1076/ SOTF File 20059. Due to the need to continue reviewing, we will produce any additional responsive records on a rolling basis.

Thank you.

From: DPH Sunshine <dph.sunshine@sfdph.org<mailto:dph.sunshine@sfdph.org>>
Sent: Tuesday, March 1, 2022 1:15 PM
To: requests@muckrock.com<mailto:requests@muckrock.com>
Cc: SOTF, (BOS) <sotf@sfgov.org<mailto:sotf@sfgov.org>>
Subject: Public Records Request #20-1076

Hello,

I am responding on behalf of SFDPH regarding public records request #20-1076. We first wanted to offer our sincere our apologies. We were not aware that you did not have access to the NextRequest system to view the Department's response to your request. Your experience in the NextRequest system was the first we had heard of it being inaccessible and that you were unable to view our response to your records request seeking clarification. It was never our intention to withhold information.

DPH has identified a voluminous number of emails potentially responsive to your request. We would appreciate any narrowing down of the request. Could you please provide specific names of individuals that you'd request the information?

In the meantime, until we hear from you, to the best of abilities of our abilities, we will begin processing this request based on the narrowing by individuals as opposed to the entire Department. We will provide these documents to you on a rolling basis.

We have included the original request below for reference.

All communications with CDC or its employees (email, text, or chat) with any of the following

insensitive keywords: "coronavirus" "wuhan" "SARS" "COVID" "COVID19" "COVID-19" "SARS-CoV-2" "2019-nCOV" "nCOV" "severe acute respiratory syndrome" "viral pneumonia" "pneumonia of unknown origin" "novel pneumonia" from Nov 14, 2019 to present. For solely this request, any format showing all participants (TO, FROM, CC; and BCC for items sent by City employees) and preserving the body, attachments and images is sufficient.

2. All communications to or from the California DPH or its employees (email, text, or chat) with any of the following insensitive keywords: "coronavirus" "wuhan" "SARS" "COVID" "COVID19" "COVID-19" "SARS-CoV-2" "2019-nCOV" "nCOV" "severe acute respiratory syndrome" "viral pneumonia" "pneumonia of unknown origin" "novel pneumonia" from Nov 14, 2019 to present (request submitted: 2/28/20).

Thank you,

DPH Sunshine Team

From: Department of Public Health

City and County of San Francisco

************************************************************************

A document has been released for record request #20-1076 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 and have also been uploaded to NextRequest case #20-1076/ SOTF File 20059. 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.

We have also withheld parts of the records provided in response to your request here because such records contain protected health information. Cal. Govt. Code Secs. 6254(c), 6254(k); Health Insurance and Accountability Act of 1996, 45 C.F.R. Secs.160, 164; Cal. Civ. Code Secs. 56 et seq.; California Constitution, Art. I, Sec. 1.

* StaffEmails_Batch7_Redacted.pdf

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After June 24, you will need to sign in to view the document(s).

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From: Department of Public Health

Requester,

We have conducted a diligent search for records responsive to your request. We have located responsive records, which are available to you here and have also been uploaded to NextRequest case #20-1076/ SOTF File 20059. 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.

We have also withheld parts of the records provided in response to your request here because such records contain protected health information. Cal. Govt. Code Secs. 6254(c), 6254(k); Health Insurance and Accountability Act of 1996, 45 C.F.R. Secs.160, 164; Cal. Civ. Code Secs. 56 et seq.; California Constitution, Art. I, Sec. 1.

Thank you.

From: DPH Sunshine <dph.sunshine@sfdph.org<mailto:dph.sunshine@sfdph.org>>
Sent: Tuesday, March 1, 2022 1:15 PM
To: requests@muckrock.com<mailto:requests@muckrock.com>
Cc: SOTF, (BOS) <sotf@sfgov.org<mailto:sotf@sfgov.org>>
Subject: Public Records Request #20-1076

Hello,

I am responding on behalf of SFDPH regarding public records request #20-1076. We first wanted to offer our sincere our apologies. We were not aware that you did not have access to the NextRequest system to view the Department's response to your request. Your experience in the NextRequest system was the first we had heard of it being inaccessible and that you were unable to view our response to your records request seeking clarification. It was never our intention to withhold information.

DPH has identified a voluminous number of emails potentially responsive to your request. We would appreciate any narrowing down of the request. Could you please provide specific names of individuals that you'd request the information?

In the meantime, until we hear from you, to the best of abilities of our abilities, we will begin processing this request based on the narrowing by individuals as opposed to the entire Department. We will provide these documents to you on a rolling basis.

We have included the original request below for reference.

All communications with CDC or its employees (email, text, or chat) with any of the following

insensitive keywords: "coronavirus" "wuhan" "SARS" "COVID" "COVID19" "COVID-19" "SARS-CoV-2" "2019-nCOV" "nCOV" "severe acute respiratory syndrome" "viral pneumonia" "pneumonia of unknown origin" "novel pneumonia" from Nov 14, 2019 to present. For solely this request, any format showing all participants (TO, FROM, CC; and BCC for items sent by City employees) and preserving the body, attachments and images is sufficient.

2. All communications to or from the California DPH or its employees (email, text, or chat) with any of the following insensitive keywords: "coronavirus" "wuhan" "SARS" "COVID" "COVID19" "COVID-19" "SARS-CoV-2" "2019-nCOV" "nCOV" "severe acute respiratory syndrome" "viral pneumonia" "pneumonia of unknown origin" "novel pneumonia" from Nov 14, 2019 to present (request submitted: 2/28/20).

Thank you,

DPH Sunshine Team

From: Department of Public Health

City and County of San Francisco

************************************************************************

A document has been released for record request #20-1076 along with the following message:

Requester,

We have conducted a diligent search for records responsive to your request. We have located responsive records, the final batch of which is available to you via email and has also been uploaded to NextRequest case #20-1076.

Thank you.

* StaffEmails_Batch8.pdf

Document links are valid for one month.
After July 2, you will need to sign in to view the document(s).

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From: Department of Public Health

Requester,

We have conducted a diligent search for records responsive to your request. We have located responsive records, the final batch of which is available to you here and has also been uploaded to NextRequest case #20-1076/ SOTF File 20059.

Thank you.

From: DPH Sunshine <dph.sunshine@sfdph.org<mailto:dph.sunshine@sfdph.org>>
Sent: Tuesday, March 1, 2022 1:15 PM
To: requests@muckrock.com<mailto:requests@muckrock.com>
Cc: SOTF, (BOS) <sotf@sfgov.org<mailto:sotf@sfgov.org>>
Subject: Public Records Request #20-1076

Hello,

I am responding on behalf of SFDPH regarding public records request #20-1076. We first wanted to offer our sincere our apologies. We were not aware that you did not have access to the NextRequest system to view the Department's response to your request. Your experience in the NextRequest system was the first we had heard of it being inaccessible and that you were unable to view our response to your records request seeking clarification. It was never our intention to withhold information.

DPH has identified a voluminous number of emails potentially responsive to your request. We would appreciate any narrowing down of the request. Could you please provide specific names of individuals that you'd request the information?

In the meantime, until we hear from you, to the best of abilities of our abilities, we will begin processing this request based on the narrowing by individuals as opposed to the entire Department. We will provide these documents to you on a rolling basis.

We have included the original request below for reference.

All communications with CDC or its employees (email, text, or chat) with any of the following

insensitive keywords: "coronavirus" "wuhan" "SARS" "COVID" "COVID19" "COVID-19" "SARS-CoV-2" "2019-nCOV" "nCOV" "severe acute respiratory syndrome" "viral pneumonia" "pneumonia of unknown origin" "novel pneumonia" from Nov 14, 2019 to present. For solely this request, any format showing all participants (TO, FROM, CC; and BCC for items sent by City employees) and preserving the body, attachments and images is sufficient.

2. All communications to or from the California DPH or its employees (email, text, or chat) with any of the following insensitive keywords: "coronavirus" "wuhan" "SARS" "COVID" "COVID19" "COVID-19" "SARS-CoV-2" "2019-nCOV" "nCOV" "severe acute respiratory syndrome" "viral pneumonia" "pneumonia of unknown origin" "novel pneumonia" from Nov 14, 2019 to present (request submitted: 2/28/20).

Thank you,

DPH Sunshine Team

From: Department of Public Health

Good Morning:

You are receiving this notice because you are named as a Complainant or Respondent in one of the following complaints scheduled before the Compliance and Amendments Committee to: 1) hear the merits of the complaint; 2) issue a determination; and/or 3) consider referrals from a Task Force Committee. Please confirm your attendance for this hearing.

Date: June 28, 2022

Location: Remote meeting; participant information to be included on the Agenda cover page.

Time: 4:30 p.m.

Complainants: Your attendance is required for this meeting/hearing.

Respondents/Departments: Pursuant to Section 67.21 (e) of the Ordinance, the custodian of records or a representative of your department, who can speak to the matter, is required at the meeting/hearing.

Complaints:

File No. 21165: Complaint filed by Library Users Association, Peter Warfield, Executive Director against San Francisco City Librarian Michael Lambert and the San Francisco Public Library for violating Administrator Code (Sunshine Ordinance), Sections 67.21, by failing to respond to a public records request in a timely and/or complete manner.

File No. 21011: Complaint filed by the Electronic Frontier Foundation against the Police Department for violating Administrative Code (Sunshine Ordinance), Sections 67.21, 67.26 and 67.27(d), by failing to respond to a public records request in a timely and complete manner, failing to keep withholding to a minimum and failing to provide assistance/information regarding alternate sources of information requested.

File No. 20059: Complaint filed by Anonymous against the Department of Public Health for violating Administrative Code (Sunshine Ordinance), Section 67.25 by failing to respond to an Immediate Disclosure request in a timely and complete manner.

File No. 22055: Complaint filed by Mark Sullivan against the Office of the District Attorney for allegedly violating Administrator Code Section(s) 67.21(b) and California Public Records Act, Section 6253(c), by failing to respond to a public records request in a timely and/or complete manner.

File No. 22057: Complaint filed by Stiliyan Bezhanski against Chanbory Son and the Planning Department for allegedly violating California Public Records Act, Sections 6254(c)(k) regarding failure to redact personal contact information.

File No. 22059: Complaint filed by Anonymous (PUB) against Mayor London Breed and the Office of the Mayor for allegedly violating Administrative Code (Sunshine Ordinance), Section(s) 67.25, by failing to respond to or acknowledge receipt of an Immediate Disclosure Request in a timely and/or complete manner.

For a document to be considered, it must be received at least five (5) working days before the hearing (see attached Public Complaint Procedure).

For inclusion into the agenda packet, supplemental/supporting documents must be received by 5:00 pm, June 23, 2022.

Cheryl Leger

Assistant Clerk, Board of Supervisors

Tel: 415-554-7724

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Disclosures: Personal information that is provided in communications to the Board of Supervisors is subject to disclosure under the California Public Records Act and the San Francisco Sunshine Ordinance. Personal information provided will not be redacted. Members of the public are not required to provide personal identifying information when they communicate with the Board of Supervisors and its committees. All written or oral communications that members of the public submit to the Clerk's Office regarding pending legislation or hearings will be made available to all members of the public for inspection and copying. The Clerk's Office does not redact any information from these submissions. This means that personal information-including names, phone numbers, addresses and similar information that a member of the public elects to submit to the Board and its committees-may appear on the Board of Supervisors website or in other public documents that members of the public may inspect or copy.

From: Department of Public Health

Good afternoon Cheryl,
I will be out of the office on this date for appearance, referencing the listed matter.
Please advise if this can be rescheduled, or if there is another course of action to be taken.

File No. 21011: Complaint filed by the Electronic Frontier Foundation against the Police Department

Lieutenant Lynn Reilly #1141
Legal Division
San Francisco Police Department
1245 3rd Street , 4th Floor
San Francisco, Ca. 94158
415-837-7394 Main
415-837-7176 Desk

CONFIDENTIALITY NOTICE: This communication and its contents may contain confidential and/or legally privileged information. It is solely for the use of the intended recipient(s). Unauthorized interception, review, use or disclosure is prohibited and may violate applicable laws, including the Electronic Communications Privacy Act. If you are not the intended recipient, please contact the sender and destroy all copies of the communication.

________________________________
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Sent: Wednesday, June 15, 2022 10:39 AM
To: Shaub, Margot (LIB) <margot.shaub@sfpl.org>; Library Users Association <libraryusers2004@yahoo.com>; Dave Maass <dm@eff.org>; saira@eff.org <saira@eff.org>; beryl.lipton@eff.org <beryl.lipton@eff.org>; Reilly, Lynn (POL) <Lynn.Reilly@sfgov.org>; Hawkes, Alison (DPH) <alison.hawkes@sfdph.org>; Tran, Sophie (DPH) <sophie.tran@sfdph.org>; requests@muckrock.com <requests@muckrock.com>; sfneighborhoods.net <info@sfneighborhoods.net>; Burke, Robyn (DAT) <robyn.burke@sfgov.org>; Stiliyan Bejanski <bejanski@gmail.com>; Son, Chanbory (CPC) <chanbory.son@sfgov.org>; Ionin, Jonas (CPC) <jonas.ionin@sfgov.org>; publicrecordsactrequester@gmail.com <publicrecordsactrequester@gmail.com>; Heckel, Hank (MYR) <hank.heckel@sfgov.org>; Moore, Nicole (DAT) <Nikki.Moore@sfgov.org>; Lambert, Michael (LIB) <michael.lambert@sfpl.org>
Subject: SOTF - Notice of Appearance - Compliance and Amendments Committee; June 28, 2022 4:30 p.m.

Good Morning:

You are receiving this notice because you are named as a Complainant or Respondent in one of the following complaints scheduled before the Compliance and Amendments Committee to: 1) hear the merits of the complaint; 2) issue a determination; and/or 3) consider referrals from a Task Force Committee. Please confirm your attendance for this hearing.

Date: June 28, 2022

Location: Remote meeting; participant information to be included on the Agenda cover page.

Time: 4:30 p.m.

Complainants: Your attendance is required for this meeting/hearing.

Respondents/Departments: Pursuant to Section 67.21 (e) of the Ordinance, the custodian of records or a representative of your department, who can speak to the matter, is required at the meeting/hearing.

Complaints:

File No. 21165: Complaint filed by Library Users Association, Peter Warfield, Executive Director against San Francisco City Librarian Michael Lambert and the San Francisco Public Library for violating Administrator Code (Sunshine Ordinance), Sections 67.21, by failing to respond to a public records request in a timely and/or complete manner.

File No. 21011: Complaint filed by the Electronic Frontier Foundation against the Police Department for violating Administrative Code (Sunshine Ordinance), Sections 67.21, 67.26 and 67.27(d), by failing to respond to a public records request in a timely and complete manner, failing to keep withholding to a minimum and failing to provide assistance/information regarding alternate sources of information requested.

File No. 20059: Complaint filed by Anonymous against the Department of Public Health for violating Administrative Code (Sunshine Ordinance), Section 67.25 by failing to respond to an Immediate Disclosure request in a timely and complete manner.

File No. 22055: Complaint filed by Mark Sullivan against the Office of the District Attorney for allegedly violating Administrator Code Section(s) 67.21(b) and California Public Records Act, Section 6253(c), by failing to respond to a public records request in a timely and/or complete manner.

File No. 22057: Complaint filed by Stiliyan Bezhanski against Chanbory Son and the Planning Department for allegedly violating California Public Records Act, Sections 6254(c)(k) regarding failure to redact personal contact information.

File No. 22059: Complaint filed by Anonymous (PUB) against Mayor London Breed and the Office of the Mayor for allegedly violating Administrative Code (Sunshine Ordinance), Section(s) 67.25, by failing to respond to or acknowledge receipt of an Immediate Disclosure Request in a timely and/or complete manner.

For a document to be considered, it must be received at least five (5) working days before the hearing (see attached Public Complaint Procedure).

For inclusion into the agenda packet, supplemental/supporting documents must be received by 5:00 pm, June 23, 2022.

Cheryl Leger

Assistant Clerk, Board of Supervisors

Tel: 415-554-7724

[CustomerSatisfactionIcon]<http://www.sfbos.org/index.aspx?page=104> Click here<http://www.sfbos.org/index.aspx?page=104> to complete a Board of Supervisors Customer Service Satisfaction form.

The Legislative Research Center<http://www.sfbos.org/index.aspx?page=9681> provides 24-hour access to Board of Supervisors legislation, and archived matters since August 1998.

Disclosures: Personal information that is provided in communications to the Board of Supervisors is subject to disclosure under the California Public Records Act and the San Francisco Sunshine Ordinance. Personal information provided will not be redacted. Members of the public are not required to provide personal identifying information when they communicate with the Board of Supervisors and its committees. All written or oral communications that members of the public submit to the Clerk's Office regarding pending legislation or hearings will be made available to all members of the public for inspection and copying. The Clerk's Office does not redact any information from these submissions. This means that personal information—including names, phone numbers, addresses and similar information that a member of the public elects to submit to the Board and its committees—may appear on the Board of Supervisors website or in other public documents that members of the public may inspect or copy.

From: Department of Public Health

Dear Parties and Committee Members:

The agenda and packet for the June 28, 2022 Sunshine Task Force Compliance Amendments Committee 4:30 p.m. meeting is online at the following link:

https://sfgov.org/sunshine/sites/default/files/cac062822_agenda.pdf

The packet material is linked to each item listed on the agenda marked with an "attachment". Click anywhere on the title of the item to open the link to the pdf of the packet material in question.

I will be out of the office on July 1 and August 5 through August 8. For questions regarding the Sunshine Ordinance, please contact Victor Young at Victor.Young@sfgov.org<mailto:Victor.Young@sfgov.org>.

Cheryl Leger
Assistant Clerk, Board of Supervisors
Cheryl.Leger@sfgov.org<mailto:Cheryl.Leger@sfgov.org>
Tel: 415-554-7724
Fax: 415-554-5163
www.sfbos.org

[CustomerSatisfactionIcon]<http://www.sfbos.org/index.aspx?page=104> Click here<http://www.sfbos.org/index.aspx?page=104> to complete a Board of Supervisors Customer Service Satisfaction form.

The Legislative Research Center<http://www.sfbos.org/index.aspx?page=9681> provides 24-hour access to Board of Supervisors legislation, and archived matters since August 1998.

Disclosures: Personal information that is provided in communications to the Board of Supervisors is subject to disclosure under the California Public Records Act and the San Francisco Sunshine Ordinance. Personal information provided will not be redacted. Members of the public are not required to provide personal identifying information when they communicate with the Board of Supervisors and its committees. All written or oral communications that members of the public submit to the Clerk's Office regarding pending legislation or hearings will be made available to all members of the public for inspection and copying. The Clerk's Office does not redact any information from these submissions. This means that personal information-including names, phone numbers, addresses and similar information that a member of the public elects to submit to the Board and its committees-may appear on the Board of Supervisors website or in other public documents that members of the public may inspect or copy.

From: Department of Public Health

City and County of San Francisco

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A document has been released for record request #20-1076 along with the following message:

Requester,

 

The attached PDF file is a recreated version of the file named “StaffEmails_Batch3_Redacted.pdf” which was released to you via email and NextRequest on April 26, 2022. DPH was made aware that the email address links in that PDF were not active—the PDF attached here (v2) corrects that issue. There are other records that we will correct on a rolling basis in advance of the SOTF hearing we have scheduled on August 23rd.

As before, DPH is including the following language regarding the redactions contained herein:

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.

 

Thank you.

* StaffEmails_Batch3_Redacted_v2.pdf

Document links are valid for one month.
After August 5, 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 document has been released for record request #20-1076 along with the following message:

Requester,

 

The attached PDF file is a recreated version of THE FIRST 50 PAGES of the file named “TomasAragon_CDPHemails_Batch1_Redacted.pdf” which was released to you via email and NextRequest on March 15, 2022. DPH was made aware that the email address links in that PDF were not active—the PDF attached here (Part1_v2) corrects that issue. There are other records that we will correct on a rolling basis in advance of the SOTF hearing we have scheduled on August 23rd.

There are no redactions contained within this first 50 pages.

 

Thank you.

* TomasAragon_CDPHemails_Batch1_Part1_v2.pdf

Document links are valid for one month.
After August 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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A document has been released for record request #20-1076 along with the following message:

Requester,

 

The attached PDF file is a recreated version of THE SECOND 50 PAGES of the file named “TomasAragon_CDPHemails_Batch1_Redacted.pdf” which was released to you via email and NextRequest on March 15, 2022. DPH was made aware that the email address links in that PDF were not active—the PDF attached here (Part2_v2) corrects that issue. There are other records that we will correct on a rolling basis in advance of the SOTF hearing we have scheduled on August 23rd.

There are no redactions contained within this 50 pages.

 

Thank you.

* TomasAragon_CDPHemails_Batch2_Part1_v2.pdf

Document links are valid for one month.
After August 18, 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 document has been released for record request #20-1076 along with the following message:

Requester,

 

The attached PDF file is a recreated version of THE THIRD 50+ PAGES of the file named “TomasAragon_CDPHemails_Batch1_Redacted.pdf” which was released to you via email and NextRequest on March 15, 2022. DPH was made aware that the email address links in that PDF were not active—the PDF attached here (Part3_v2) corrects that issue. There are other records that we will correct on a rolling basis in advance of the SOTF hearing we have scheduled on August 23rd.

Please note we have redacted some portions of these records because such records contain protected health information. Cal. Govt. Code Secs. 6254(c), 6254(k); Health Insurance and Accountability Act of 1996, 45 C.F.R. Secs.160, 164; Cal. Civ. Code Secs. 56 et seq.; California Constitution, Art. I, Sec. 1. 

 

Thank you.

* TomasAragon_CDPHemails_Batch3_Part1_v2_Redacted.pdf

Document links are valid for one month.
After August 25, 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 document has been released for record request #20-1076 along with the following message:

Requester,

 

The attached PDF file is a recreated version of THE FINAL 50+ PAGES of the file named “TomasAragon_CDPHemails_Batch1_Redacted.pdf” which was released to you via email and NextRequest on March 15, 2022. DPH was made aware that the email address links in that PDF were not active—the PDF attached here (Baatch4_Part1_v2) corrects that issue. There are other records that we will correct on a rolling basis in advance of the SOTF hearing we have scheduled on August 23rd.

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. 

 

Thank you.

* TomasAragon_CDPHemails_Batch4_Part1_v2_Redacted.pdf

Document links are valid for one month.
After September 5, 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 document has been released for record request #20-1076 along with the following message:

Requester,

 

The attached PDF file is a recreated version of the file named “StaffEmails_Batch2_Redacted.pdf” which was released to you via email and NextRequest on April 20, 2022. DPH was made aware that the email address links in that PDF were not active—the PDF attached here (StaffEmails_Batch2_Redacted_v2) corrects that issue.

 

This file is the final PDF that needed to be corrected among the responsive records that have been provided to you under this NextRequest case #20-1076. As of today, August 9, DPH has no additional records to provide.

Please note we have redacted a portion of the attached records because such records contain protected health information. Cal. Govt. Code Secs. 6254(c), 6254(k); Health Insurance and Accountability Act of 1996, 45 C.F.R. Secs.160, 164; Cal. Civ. Code Secs. 56 et seq.; California Constitution, Art. I, Sec. 1. 

 

Thank you.

* StaffEmails_Batch2_Redacted_v2.pdf

Document links are valid for one month.
After September 9, you will need to sign in to view the document(s).

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<em>Questions about your request?</em> Reply to this email or sign in to contact staff at City and County of San Francisco.<br></br><em>Technical support:</em> See our <a href='https://help.nextrequest.com/knowledge/requester-resources'>help page</a>

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