Inter-Agency Text Messages - Immediate Disclosure Request (SF DPW)
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| Tracking # |
20-2154 |
| Submitted | June 4, 2020 |
| Est. Completion | July 24, 2020 |
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From: twitter.com/journo_anon Public Records Requester
Department of Public Works and its Department Head:
Below are new Immediate Disclosure Requests (SF Admin Code 67.25(a)) directed to your agency and its department head. Your response is required by June 5, 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 images. 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 (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 like NextRequest 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 text or chat messages (including group messages) in any form or application (including but not limited to SMS, MMS, WhatsApp, WeChat, Signal, Instagram, Twitter, Facebook, Hangouts, Skype, Teams):
- a) sent by your current department head to/cc/bcc any of Mayor London Breed, Sean Elsbernd, SFPD Chief William Scott, Dennis Herrera, Jeff Kositsky, Tomás Aragón, Mohammed Nuru, Andy Lynch, Hank Heckel, Mary Ellen Carroll, or Abigail Stewart-Kahn (the "Named Public Officials") OR
- b) sent by any of the Named Public Officials and received by your current department head (and possibly others, such as in a group message) OR
- c) sent by a third party and received by both your current department head and any of the Named Public Officials (such as in a group message),
with timestamps between Jan 1, 2019 and June 3, 2020 (inclusive), including a personal property search under City of San Jose vs Superior Court (2017). While the phone numbers are not needed, the following must be preserved: the timestamps, the textual content, attachments, and images, and also ALL sender and recipient names (including groups). Pursuant to SF Admin Code 67.21(l), which requires you to use any electronic format that we request, please provide the records in spreadsheet format. For an example of the format of the response, see SFPD Chief Scott's prior response here: https://cdn.muckrock.com/foia_files/2020/04/14/Text_Messages_Breed_Scott_Redacted.pdf and clearly referenced redaction justifications here: https://cdn.muckrock.com/foia_files/2020/04/14/ChiefOfficeResponse201.pdf (though I do not concede all of them are appropriate redactions) . Please provide rolling responses, starting with the most recent records going backwards. Messages to/from before your current department head became the department must still be provided.
Do not destroy or discard any responsive records - we will appeal all withholdings or Sunshine violations. Remember your department head has an obligation to maintain in a professional and businesslike manner their correspondence and release them as public records (SF Admin Code 67.27-9(a)); and we will cross-check your responses with all other parties to ensure you have not destroyed or withheld records improperly.
Thank you for your anticipated cooperation in this matter.
NOTE: Please be certain you have properly redacted all of your responses. Once you send them to us, there is no going back. The email address sending this request is a publicly- viewable mailbox. All of your responses (including all responsive records) may be instantly and automatically available to the public online via the MuckRock.com FOIA service used to issue this request (though the requester is an anonymous user, not a representative of MuckRock). Nothing herein is legal, IT, or professional advice of any kind. The author disclaims all warranties, express or implied, including but not limited to all warranties of merchantability or fitness. In no event shall the author be liable for any special, direct, indirect, consequential, or any other damages whatsoever. The digital signature, if any, in this email is not an indication of a binding agreement or offer; it merely authenticates the sender. Please do not include any confidential information, as I intend that these communications with the City all be disclosable public records.
Sincerely,
Anonymous
From: Department of Public Works
City and County of San Francisco
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Hi there
A document has been released for record request #20-2154:
* California Public Records Act Request_ Inter-Agency Text Messages - Immediate Disclosure Request (SF DPW).pdf
Document links are valid for one month.
After July 4, you will need to sign in to view the document(s).
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From: Department of Public Works
City and County of San Francisco
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Hi there
A message was sent to you regarding record request #20-2154:
We received your public records request, dated June 4. You have requested the following records:
All text or chat messages (including group messages) in any form or application (including but not limited to SMS, MMS, WhatsApp, WeChat, Signal, Instagram, Twitter, Facebook, Hangouts, Skype, Teams):
- a) sent by your current department head to/cc/bcc any of Mayor London Breed, Sean Elsbernd, SFPD Chief William Scott, Dennis Herrera, Jeff Kositsky, Tomás Aragón, Mohammed Nuru, Andy Lynch, Hank Heckel, Mary Ellen Carroll, or Abigail Stewart-Kahn (the "Named Public Officials") OR
- b) sent by any of the Named Public Officials and received by your current department head (and possibly others, such as in a group message) OR
- c) sent by a third party and received by both your current department head and any of the Named Public Officials (such as in a group message),
with timestamps between Jan 1, 2019 and June 3, 2020 (inclusive), including a personal property search under City of San Jose vs Superior Court (2017). While the phone numbers are not needed, the following must be preserved: the timestamps, the textual content, attachments, and images, and also ALL sender and recipient names (including groups).
Pursuant to Mayor London Breed's Proclamation dated March 13, Sections 67.25(a) and 67.25(b) of the Administrative Code are suspended for the duration of the local emergency.
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.
Our department will identify and compile the requested information. The Sunshine Ordinance requires departments to respond as soon as possible or within 10 calendar days from receipt of any records requests. Therefore, we will contact you on or before June 15, as permitted by San Francisco Administrative Code § 67.21(b) and California Government Code § 6253(c). Please note that during the current public health emergency, the department is not required to provide copies of records by this deadline but must notify the requester whether the records exist.
It is not necessary to create a NextRequest account to view responsive records. Once they have been released, a link, valid for 30 days, will be provided to view the records. Additionally, unless privacy concerns prevent it, Public Works makes all records requests visible to the public. You may search for requests at https://sanfrancisco.nextrequest.com/.
Regards,
David A. Steinberg
Custodian of Records
San Francisco Public Works
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From: Department of Public Works
Dear Anonymous,
I am confirming that we received your email request today, which we have logged as Public Records Request #20-2154. You have requested the following records:
All text or chat messages (including group messages) in any form or application (including but not limited to SMS, MMS, WhatsApp, WeChat, Signal, Instagram, Twitter, Facebook, Hangouts, Skype, Teams):
- a) sent by your current department head to/cc/bcc any of Mayor London Breed, Sean Elsbernd, SFPD Chief William Scott, Dennis Herrera, Jeff Kositsky, Tomás Aragón, Mohammed Nuru, Andy Lynch, Hank Heckel, Mary Ellen Carroll, or Abigail Stewart-Kahn (the "Named Public Officials") OR
- b) sent by any of the Named Public Officials and received by your current department head (and possibly others, such as in a group message) OR
- c) sent by a third party and received by both your current department head and any of the Named Public Officials (such as in a group message),
with timestamps between Jan 1, 2019 and June 3, 2020 (inclusive), including a personal property search under City of San Jose vs Superior Court (2017). While the phone numbers are not needed, the following must be preserved: the timestamps, the textual content, attachments, and images, and also ALL sender and recipient names (including groups).
As you know, our department uses the NextRequest online records request system. You will receive an email from Nextrequest.com with instructions for following up on this request.
Pursuant to Mayor London Breed's Proclamation dated March 13, Sections 67.25(a) and 67.25(b) of the Administrative Code are suspended for the duration of the local emergency. 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.
Our department will identify and compile the requested information. The Sunshine Ordinance requires departments to respond as soon as possible or within 10 calendar days from receipt of any records requests. Therefore, we will contact you on or before June 15, as permitted by San Francisco Administrative Code § 67.21(b) and California Government Code § 6253(c). Please note that during the current public health emergency, the department is not required to provide copies of records by this deadline but must notify the requester whether the records exist.
Please note that it is not necessary to create a NextRequest account to view responsive records. Once they have been released, a link, valid for 30 days, will be provided to view the records. Additionally, unless privacy concerns prevent it, Public Works makes all records requests visible to the public. You may search for requests at https://sanfrancisco.nextrequest.com/.
We will produce responsive records online through the NextRequest portal. However, if hard copies are needed, we can provide hard copies of any 8.5x11 documents that are made available to you at a cost of 10 cents per copy, as allowed by the San Francisco Administrative Code § 67.28(c). This section states "a fee not to exceed 10 cents per page may be charged." Postage is an additional cost.
In lieu of hard copies, we can burn the responsive records onto a CD at a rate of $1 per CD or load the responsive records onto a flash drive at a rate of $4 per flash drive. Fees for duplication are subject to change and postage is an additional cost.
Regards,
[cid:image002.jpg@01D63A51.668E1D80]David A. Steinberg
Custodian of Records & Executive Assistant to the Director
San Francisco Public Works | City and County of San Francisco
City Hall, Room 348 - 1 Dr. Carlton B. Goodlett Pl. | San Francisco, CA 94102 | (415) 554-6950
sfpublicworks.org<http://www.sfpublicworks.org/> · twitter.com/sfpublicworks<http://www.twitter.com/sfpublicworks>
For public records requests, please go to sfpublicworks.org/records<http://www.sfpublicworks.org/records>.
Note: I am moving July 2, 2020. My new number will be (628) 271-2888.The number shown above will cease working on that date.
From: Department of Public Works
City and County of San Francisco
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Hi there
Your first City and County of San Francisco record request (request number #20-2154) 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 #20-2154.
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From: Department of Public Works
Use this to confirm your account. The link is only valid for 24 hours.
City and County of San Francisco
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From: Department of Public Works
City and County of San Francisco
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Hi there
A message was sent to you regarding record request #20-2154:
Pursuant to California Government Code Section 6253(c), we are invoking an extension of up to 14 days (until June 29) because of the need to compile or extract electronic data. We will endeavor to complete our response before that date.
Regards,
David A. Steinberg
Custodian of Records
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From: Muckrock Staff
To Whom It May Concern:
I'm following up on the following California Public Records Act request, copied below, and originally submitted on June 4, 2020. You had previously indicated that it would be completed on June 29, 2020. I wanted to check on the status of my request, and to see if there was a new estimated completion date. You had assigned it reference number #20-2154.
Thanks for your help, and let me know if further clarification is needed.
From: twitter.com/journo_anon Public Records Requester
It is past 24 days for Request 20-2154; complaints will be filed. Please immediately provide all responsive records so far reviewed and continue providing rolling responses.
NOTE: Please be certain you have properly redacted all of your responses. Once you send them to us, there is no going back. The email address sending this request is a publicly- viewable mailbox. All of your responses (including all responsive records) may be instantly and automatically available to the public online via the MuckRock.com FOIA service used to issue this request (though the requester is an anonymous user, not a representative of MuckRock). Nothing herein is legal, IT, or professional advice of any kind. The author disclaims all warranties, express or implied, including but not limited to all warranties of merchantability or fitness. In no event shall the author be liable for any special, direct, indirect, consequential, or any other damages whatsoever. The digital signature, if any, in this email is not an indication of a binding agreement or offer; it merely authenticates the sender. Please do not include any confidential information, as I intend that these communications with the City all be disclosable public records.
Sincerely,
Anonymous
From: Department of Public Works
City and County of San Francisco
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Hi there
A message was sent to you regarding record request #20-2154:
I received your email today notifying us of your intent to file a complaint.
As you are aware, during the current public health emergency, the department is not required to provide copies of records by this deadline but must notify the requester whether the records exist, which we have done.
We are working to provide you with records; however, to date, no records have been reviewed, so there are no documents to release to you on a rolling basis. I have not received the documents yet from our IT group, which has to extract the texts from Alaric Degrafinried's phone before I can review, redact and release them.
I apologize for the delay, but our IT group has been quite busy because about 900 employees in the department -- including both the IT group itself and the Director's Office -- are in the process of moving into a new building. As I'm sure you can understand, the demands on IT are quite high during this period.
When I receive some or all of the texts, I will review, redact and release them on a rolling basis.
Regards,
David A. Steinberg
Custodian of Records
San Francisco Public Works
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From: Department of Public Works
City and County of San Francisco
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Hi there
Documents have been released for record request #20-2154:
* Messages - London Breed.pdf-redacted.pdf
* Messages - Mary Ellen Carroll & Nadia Sesay-redacted.pdf
* Messages - Mary Ellen Carroll & Naomi Kelly-redacted.pdf
* Messages - Jeff Kositsky-redacted.pdf
* Messages - Mary Ellen Carroll-redacted.pdf
* Messages - Sean Elsbernd & Naomi Kelly & Mary Ellen-redacted.pdf
* Messages - Sean Elsbernd-redacted.pdf
* Messages - Tom Maguire & Jeff Kositsky-redacted.pdf
* Messages - Nadia Sesay & Mary Ellen Carroll & Jeff-redacted.pdf
* Messages - Nadia Sesay & Jeff Kositsky-redacted.pdf
* Messages - Carla Short & Jeff Kositsky-redacted.pdf
* Messages - Abigail Stewart-Kahn-redacted.pdf
* Messages - +(Redacted for privacy) & Mary Ellen Carroll & +141.pdf-redacted.pdf
Document links are valid for one month.
After August 15, you will need to sign in to view the document(s).
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From: Department of Public Works
City and County of San Francisco
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Hi there
A message was sent to you regarding record request #20-2154:
We have conducted a diligent search for records responsive to your request. We have located responsive records, which we have released to you. Due to the need to continue searching and reviewing, the need to redact records and your request to produce on a rolling basis, we will produce any additional responsive records as soon as reasonably possible on an incremental or rolling basis.
Due to privacy concerns, personal information, such as personal phone numbers, cell numbers and email addresses, has 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.
We estimate that we should complete production of records by July 24.
Regards,
David A. Steinberg
Custodian of Records
San Francisco Public Works
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From: twitter.com/journo_anon Public Records Requester
Mr. Steinberg, as in the past, please make https://sanfrancisco.nextrequest.com/requests/20-2154 and its documents completely publicly visible. I cannot be required to sign-in and agree to end-user terms and conditions (Santa Clara Co. vs Superior Ct, 170 Cal.App 4th 1301).
You may also simply just email the responsive records.
NOTE: Please be certain you have properly redacted all of your responses. Once you send them to us, there is no going back. The email address sending this request is a publicly- viewable mailbox. All of your responses (including all responsive records) may be instantly and automatically available to the public online via the MuckRock.com FOIA service used to issue this request (though the requester is an anonymous user, not a representative of MuckRock). Nothing herein is legal, IT, or professional advice of any kind. The author disclaims all warranties, express or implied, including but not limited to all warranties of merchantability or fitness. In no event shall the author be liable for any special, direct, indirect, consequential, or any other damages whatsoever. The digital signature, if any, in this email is not an indication of a binding agreement or offer; it merely authenticates the sender. Please do not include any confidential information, as I intend that these communications with the City all be disclosable public records.
Sincerely,
Anonymous
From: Department of Public Works
Hi,
Sure, I will make the files public, but you don't need to log in or create an account to see the released documents. The email you received from NextRequest includes a link that takes you directly to the records, no account required.
Regards,
[cid:image002.jpg@01D65AC3.69013E20]David A. Steinberg
Custodian of Records & Executive Assistant to the Director
San Francisco Public Works | City and County of San Francisco
49 South Van Ness Avenue, Suite 1647 | San Francisco, CA 94103 | (628) 271-2888
sfpublicworks.org<http://www.sfpublicworks.org/> * twitter.com/sfpublicworks<http://www.twitter.com/sfpublicworks>
For public records requests, please go to sfpublicworks.org/records<http://www.sfpublicworks.org/records>.
Note: The new contact information above is effective July 6, 2020.
From: Department of Public Works
City and County of San Francisco
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Hi there
Record request #20-2154 has been published and is now available for public view.
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From: twitter.com/journo_anon Public Records Requester
Thanks for that info and for making the link open - I've heard this issue with links before, yet I see no links. You can see what I received here:
https://www.muckrock.com/foi/san-francisco-141/inter-agency-text-messages-immediate-disclosure-request-sf-dpw-94370/#comm-917857
We do get links from the City's other records system used by SFPD, but for some reason not from NextRequest.
NOTE: Please be certain you have properly redacted all of your responses. Once you send them to us, there is no going back. The email address sending this request is a publicly- viewable mailbox. All of your responses (including all responsive records) may be instantly and automatically available to the public online via the MuckRock.com FOIA service used to issue this request (though the requester is an anonymous user, not a representative of MuckRock). Nothing herein is legal, IT, or professional advice of any kind. The author disclaims all warranties, express or implied, including but not limited to all warranties of merchantability or fitness. In no event shall the author be liable for any special, direct, indirect, consequential, or any other damages whatsoever. The digital signature, if any, in this email is not an indication of a binding agreement or offer; it merely authenticates the sender. Please do not include any confidential information, as I intend that these communications with the City all be disclosable public records.
Sincerely,
Anonymous
From: Department of Public Works
City and County of San Francisco
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Hi there
A message was sent to you regarding record request #20-2154:
Just a quick note to let you know why we pulled back the previously released documents. We discovered that a glitch in the NextRequest system failed to include footnotes with each redaction, so we will redact the documents again to ensure that we comply with the requirement that all redactions have a corresponding footnote.
Sorry for the subsequent delay in providing you with all of the responsive records.
Regards,
David A. Steinberg
Custodian of Records
San Francisco Public Works
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From: Department of Public Works
City and County of San Francisco
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Hi there
A document has been released for record request #20-2154:
* California Public Records Act Request_ Inter-Agency Text Messages - Immediate Disclosure Request (SF DPW).pdf
Document links are valid for one month.
After August 20, you will need to sign in to view the document(s).
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From: Department of Public Works
City and County of San Francisco
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Hi there
Documents have been released for record request #20-2154:
* Messages - Abigail Stewart-Kahn.pdf-redacted.pdf
* Messages - Carla Short & Jeff Kositsky.pdf-redacted.pdf
* Messages - Jeff Kositsky.pdf-redacted.pdf
* Messages - London Breed.pdf-redacted.pdf
* Messages - Mary Ellen Carroll & Nadia Sesay.pdf-redacted.pdf
* Messages - Mary Ellen Carroll & Naomi Kelly.pdf-redacted.pdf
* Messages - Mary Ellen Carroll.pdf-redacted.pdf
* Messages - Nadia Sesay & Jeff Kositsky.pdf-redacted.pdf
* Messages - Nadia Sesay & Mary Ellen Carroll & Jeff.pdf-redacted.pdf
* Messages - Sean Elsbernd & Naomi Kelly & Mary Ellen.pdf-redacted.pdf
* Messages - Sean Elsbernd.pdf-redacted.pdf
* Messages - Tom Maguire & Jeff Kositsky.pdf-redacted.pdf
* Texts - Chief William Scott.pdf-redacted.pdf
* Texts - London Breed.pdf-redacted.pdf
Document links are valid for one month.
After August 20, you will need to sign in to view the document(s).
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From: Department of Public Works
City and County of San Francisco
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Hi there
A document has been released for record request #20-2154:
* Messages - +(redacted for privacy) & Mary Ellen Carroll & +141.pdf-redacted.pdf
Document links are valid for one month.
After August 20, you will need to sign in to view the document(s).
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From: Department of Public Works
City and County of San Francisco
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Hi there
A message was sent to you regarding record request #20-2154:
We have conducted a diligent search for records responsive to your request. We have located responsive records, which we have released to you. Due to the need to continue searching and reviewing, the need to redact records and your request to produce on a rolling basis, we will produce any additional responsive records as soon as reasonably possible on an incremental or rolling basis.
Due to privacy concerns, personal information, such as personal phone numbers, cell numbers and email addresses, has 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.
We estimate that we should complete production of records by July 24.
Regards,
David A. Steinberg
Custodian of Records
San Francisco Public Works
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From: Department of Public Works
City and County of San Francisco
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Hi there
Documents have been released for record request #20-2154:
* Texts - Chief William Scott & Michael Redmond.pdf-redacted.pdf
* Texts - Jeff Kositsky & +(Redacted for privacy) & Mary Elle.pdf-redacted.pdf
* Texts - Jeff Kositsky & Nadia Sesay & Mary Ellen.pdf-redacted.pdf
* Texts - Sean Elsbernd.pdf-redacted.pdf
* Texts - Michael Redmond & Mary Ellen Carroll & P.pdf-redacted.pdf
* Texts - Mary Ellen Carroll.pdf-redacted.pdf
* Texts - Nadia Sesay & Mary Ellen Carroll.pdf-redacted.pdf
* Texts - Nadia Sesay & Jeff Kositsky & Sheryl Dav.pdf-redacted.pdf
* Texts - Phil Ginsburg & Jeff Kositsky.pdf-redacted.pdf
Document links are valid for one month.
After August 31, you will need to sign in to view the document(s).
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From: Department of Public Works
City and County of San Francisco
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Hi there
Record request #20-2154 has been closed and published. The closure reason supplied was:
We have conducted a diligent search for records responsive to your request. We have located responsive records and are releasing them to you.
Please note that we unable to search for additional potentially responsive documents because we were unable to access Mohammed Nuru or his personal device(s). Because the department still does not have access to Mr. Nuru's devices at this time, we now consider your request closed. If, however, the department comes into possession of the device(s) and has the ability to extract the information, we will reopen your request.
If you have trouble accessing the files, we can burn the responsive records onto a CD at a rate of $1 per CD or load the responsive records onto a flash drive at a rate of $4 per flash drive. Fees for duplication are subject to change and postage is an additional cost.
If hard copies are needed, we can provide hard copies of any 8.5x11 documents that are made available to you at a cost of 10 cents per copy, as allowed by the San Francisco Administrative Code § 67.28(c). This section states "a fee not to exceed 10 cents per page may be charged." Postage is an additional cost.
Please note that the Public Records Act requires an agency to make available to any person a copy of an “identifiable record or records” in its possession, unless the record is specifically exempt from disclosure. (Please see California Government Code § 6253(b).) The City’s obligation under the Sunshine Ordinance, like the Public Records Act, is to produce public records in its custody. (See San Francisco Administration Code § 67.20(b).) There is no requirement that a department or officer construct a document to meet the specifications of the request.
Due to privacy concerns, personal information, such as personal phone numbers, cell numbers and email addresses, has 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.
Please note that it is not necessary to create a NextRequest account to view responsive records. Once they have been released, a link, valid for 30 days, will be provided to view the records. Additionally, unless privacy concerns prevent it, Public Works makes all records requests visible to the public. You may search for requests at https://sanfrancisco.nextrequest.com/.
This concludes your public records request.Regards,
David A. SteinbergCustodian of RecordsSan Francisco Public Works
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From: twitter.com/journo_anon Public Records Requester
FYI - You have some phone numbers in https://sanfrancisco.nextrequest.com/documents/5337318 - unsure if those are city numbers or personal numbers.
NOTE: Please be certain you have properly redacted all of your responses. Once you send them to us, there is no going back. The email address sending this request is a publicly- viewable mailbox. All of your responses (including all responsive records) may be instantly and automatically available to the public online via the MuckRock.com FOIA service used to issue this request (though the requester is an anonymous user, not a representative of MuckRock). Nothing herein is legal, IT, or professional advice of any kind. The author disclaims all warranties, express or implied, including but not limited to all warranties of merchantability or fitness. In no event shall the author be liable for any special, direct, indirect, consequential, or any other damages whatsoever. The digital signature, if any, in this email is not an indication of a binding agreement or offer; it merely authenticates the sender. Please do not include any confidential information, as I intend that these communications with the City all be disclosable public records.
Sincerely,
Anonymous
From: Department of Public Works
City and County of San Francisco
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Hi there
A document has been released for record request #20-2154:
* Texts - Michael Redmond & Mary Ellen Carroll & P.pdf-redacted.pdf-redacted.pdf
Document links are valid for one month.
After August 31, you will need to sign in to view the document(s).
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From: Department of Public Works
City and County of San Francisco
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Hi there
A message was sent to you regarding record request #20-2154:
Thanks for alerting me that the redactions didn't show up. Very odd -- the footnotes were there and the document indicated that there were multiple redactions, they just didn't show up.
Regards,
David A. Steinberg
Custodian of Records
San Francisco Public Works
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[cid:image001.jpg@01D71CC7.1BE4FB60]David A. Steinberg
Custodian of Records & Executive Assistant to the Director
San Francisco Public Works | City and County of San Francisco
49 South Van Ness Avenue, Suite 1647 | San Francisco, CA 94103 | (628) 271-2888
sfpublicworks.org<http://www.sfpublicworks.org/> * twitter.com/sfpublicworks<http://www.twitter.com/sfpublicworks>
For public records requests, please go to sfpublicworks.org/records<http://www.sfpublicworks.org/records>.
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From: twitter.com/journo_anon Public Records Requester
On this email's requests - is DPW actually claiming anything is left?
From: Department of Public Works
I have no additional records for any of the closed requests. As I wrote previously, I just wanted to make sure I provided the information to all of the accounts that submitted requests.
Regards,
[cid:image001.jpg@01D71FC8.956148A0]David A. Steinberg
Custodian of Records & Executive Assistant to the Director
San Francisco Public Works | City and County of San Francisco
49 South Van Ness Avenue, Suite 1647 | San Francisco, CA 94103 | (628) 271-2888
sfpublicworks.org<http://www.sfpublicworks.org/> · twitter.com/sfpublicworks<http://www.twitter.com/sfpublicworks>
For public records requests, please go to sfpublicworks.org/records<http://www.sfpublicworks.org/records>.
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