Mobile Biometric Technologies (Scottsdale Police Department)

Dave Maass filed this request with the Scottsdale Police Department of Scottsdale, AZ.

It is a clone of this request.

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Completed

Communications

From: Michael Morisy

Dear Custodian of Records/Public Records Coordinator,

I am collaborating with the Electronic Frontier Foundation, a public interest group, and the media organization MuckRock, to survey how law enforcement agencies deploy mobile biometric technologies.

Mobile biometric technologies can be defined as any mobile device or mobile app used by law enforcement agencies to scan, capture, analyze, store, or automatically recognize any physical or biological characteristic of a subject. Commonly used mobile biometric technologies include fingerprint/thumbprint collection, facial recognition, scans of the iris or other elements of the human eye, Rapid DNA, and tattoo recognition. (Please see below for examples.)

Pursuant to Ariz. Rev. Stat. Ann. Secs. 39-121 to 39-122 and 39-128, I request the following records pertaining to mobile biometric technologies, including those listed above, as well as other biometric technologies I have not identified:

1) Purchasing and procurement documents, including but not limited to: purchase orders, RFPs, responses to RFPs, invoices and contracts

2) Policy, procedural, and training documents, including but not limited to: use policies, standard operating procedures, training materials, presentations, privacy assessments, data retention policies, and other guidelines

3) Programming documents, including but not limited to: funding opportunity announcements, grant applications and grantor status/progress reports, reports to legislative bodies, annual reports

4) Audit documents, including but not limited to: audits of the system, misuse reports, and reports to oversight bodies

In your response, I would appreciate that you individually address each of the above categories of documents individually.

In addition to the above classes of documents, I am also seeking the following information:

- The total number of individuals whose biometric data has been collected over the last three years,
- The total number of [biometric data points] contained in the agency’s database
- The retention period for biometric data
- The number of mobile biometrics devices purchased and in use
- The total number of authorized users of the mobile biometrics devices
- Which external agencies and entities have access to biometric data in the database and under what conditions,
- Whether biometric data is combined with biographic data such as name and address in the database, and
- The process by which data is entered into the database

These documents will be published online and inform the public dialog over police technology. Because of the great public interest in these issues, I ask that you waive any fees. If your agency is unable to do so, please contact me with an estimate of the costs.

Thank you.

Sincerely,

Colin P Shea

Examples:

Mobile facial recognition
http://www.utsandiego.com/news/2013/nov/08/cir-facial-recognition-software-san-diego/

Mobile fingerprint readers
http://www.policechiefmagazine.org/magazine/index.cfm?fuseaction=display_arch&article_id=1824&issue_id=62009

Mobile iris scanners
http://www.reuters.com/article/2011/07/20/us-crime-identification-iris-idUSTRE76J4A120110720

Rapid DNA
http://www.policemag.com/channel/technology/articles/2014/02/speeding-up-dna-analysis.aspx

Mobile Tattoo Recognition
http://www.lawofficer.com/articles/print/volume-10/issue-4/features/new-smartphone-app-interprets.html

From: MuckRock.com

To Whom It May Concern:

I wanted to follow up on the following Freedom of Information request, copied below, and originally submitted on Aug. 10, 2015. Please let me know when I can expect to receive a response, or if further clarification is needed.

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

From: MuckRock.com

To Whom It May Concern:

I wanted to follow up on the following Freedom of Information request, copied below, and originally submitted on Aug. 10, 2015. Please let me know when I can expect to receive a response, or if further clarification is needed.

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

From: MuckRock.com

To Whom It May Concern:

I wanted to follow up on the following Freedom of Information request, copied below, and originally submitted on Aug. 10, 2015. Please let me know when I can expect to receive a response, or if further clarification is needed.

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

From: Muckrock Staff

To Whom It May Concern:
I wanted to follow up on the following request, copied below. Please let me know when I can expect to receive a response.
Thanks for your help, and let me know if further clarification is needed.

From: Scottsdale Police Department

A copy of your requested materials is attached. Please follow the
instructions below to retrieve your document..

- Use a computer – not a CELL phone.
- Open and download within 14 days; the link will no longer be
available after that.
Please DO NOT RESPOND to this E-Mail, as responses are NOT
MONITORED.
If you have questions or require additional assistant please
contact the Scottsdale Police Records Unit at 480-312-1999 for
assistance.
INSTRUCTIONS:
We use our Secure Email System to email reports, so please read
these
instructions before continuing:
1. Click on the link below. You will be taken to another screen
that asks for your user name, type in your email address (case
sensitive) as your user name and click "Authorize".
2. You will then receive a second email that contains a link.
3. Click on the link and you will be taken to a new screen.
4. In this screen, find the "Attached Files". Your PDF document
is listed.
5. Click on the PDF file name to open and SAVE your document
(please save and/or print at this time, as the original link will
eventually expire.)
Thank you,

Scottsdale Police Dept – Records Unit

The following files are attached to this message:

- Green Letter PRR 18-014865.pdf (678 KB), Checksum: a24618d8b98c85b7b5abab9ef7f6354fceb83eeee251b3640c009da9460138aa

Please click on the following link to download the attachments:
https://securemail.scottsdaleaz.gov/message/AeOS3PyXmUTqigmD771ZSu

This email or download link can not be forwarded to anyone else.

The attachments are available until: Wednesday, 14 November

Message ID: AeOS3PyXmUTqigmD771ZSu

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