South Carolina police certification 2023-01-12

You have submitted an Application for a SC Criminal Justice Academy FOIA Request Form.

Requestor Name: John Kelly
Agency or Company: N/A
Street Address: MuckRock News, DEPT MR138742
Street Address 2: 263 Huntington Ave
City: Boston
State: MA
Zip Code: 02115
Officer's Name:
Officer's Employing Agency:
Officer's Academy ID:
Document Request: Other
If 'Other' Specify Document Type: To Whom It May Concern: This is a public records request made via MuckRock under the South Carolina Public Records Law, seeking records related to law enforcement officer certification in this state. This request is brought by Big Local News along with a collaboration of news organizations, including ABC News, KQED, MuckRock and other news organizations. Big Local News is a program of Stanford University’s Journalism and Democracy Initiative and helps journalists collect, process and analyze public data. We are seeking two categories of certification records: * All certified officers All law enforcement officers who are actively certified as of the date of this request (or when the request is processed). If your system maintains historical records of previously certified officers who are no longer active, please include them as far back as possible. If correctional officers are certified by your agency, please include them as well. * Decertified officers All law enforcement officers who have been decertified through revocations, voluntary surrenders, suspensions or any other actions going back as far as possible. Please include records for decertified correctional officers if available. Data elements for certified officers: * Officer unique ID number * POST or state certification ID number * Officer’s full name * Officer’s date of birth or, if not releasable, year of birth or current age * Officer’s city and/or zip code of residence * Officer’s last/current department or agency * Officer’s last/current department or agency start date * Officer’s last/current position and/or rank at that department or agency * Officer’s previous departments/agencies (employment history), with start and end dates * Officer’s positions and/or ranks at previous departments or agencies * Officer’s original date of certification * Current status of certification (active, lapsed, expired, suspended, etc.) * Last action taken on certification * Date of last action on certification * Disciplinary actions taken against this officer’s certification * Dates of disciplinary actions taken against this officer’s certification * Training history/additional certifications of this officer, if available Data elements for decertified officers: * Officer unique ID number * POST ID number * Officer’s full name * Officer’s date of birth or, if not releasable, year of birth or current age * Officer’s city and/or zip code of residence. * Officer’s last department/agency, with start and end date * Officer’s last position and/or rank at that department or agency * Decertification action taken (revocation, suspension, voluntary surrender, etc.) * Date decertification action taken * POST case number, if applicable * Reason for decertification or similar action If your certification system contains data elements not listed above, please include them in the response, provided they are releasable under the law. On the other hand, we recognize some of the information we are asking for may not be tracked by your system. If that is the case, we are willing to accept as many of the data elements as your agency maintains. If some records are more readily available, we are happy to receive partial information as soon as possible while the remaining request is processed. In addition to the data elements listed, we request documentation necessary to understand and interpret the data, including but not limited to record layouts, data dictionaries, code sheets, lookup tables, etc. Our preference is to receive structured data provided in a machine-readable text file, such as delimited or fixed-width formats. We can also handle a variety of other data formats including SQL databases, Excel workbooks and MS Access. If there are additional formats your agency would prefer to provide, please let us know. We are seeking this information as a news media organization on a matter of public interest concerning the conduct of government. As such, we ask for a waiver of all fees, if allowed under state law. If fees are necessary to reimburse the agency for actual costs, we agree to pay up to $100. If costs exceed that amount, please let us know before fulfilling the request. Please send clarifications and questions via electronic communication at any time. Thank you very much for your time and attention to this request. John Kelly Director of Data Journalism ABC News and ABC Owned Television Stations 321-537-6898 Upload documents directly: https://www.muckrock.com/

Fee Schedule:

Scanning/Redaction Fee .............. $20 per hour
Archival Retrieval Fee ................... $25 per box
CD/DVD Fee .................................... $5 per disk

Printed Copies ................................ $15 per page
Certified Training History Report ... $15
Basic LE Manual Set ...................... $75
Miscellaneous Manuals ............... $35
Copy of Basic LE Curriculum ...... $9

Please send payment to:
SCCJA
5400 Broad River Road
Columbia SC 29212

Thank you!

We are in receipt of your request. We are currently working up a cost factor for the work required to fulfill your request.

Thank you.
Major Florence McCants
803-896-8035

After reviewing your request, the cost factor to fulfill this FOI request will be:

53,506 files at $15.00 per file $802,590.00
35 files completed per hour is 1,529 hours at 20.00 per hour $30,580.00

Total $883,170.00

The SC Criminal Justice Academy will require a 25% deposit of 208,292.50 before we can start working on your request.
If you need to speak with me regarding this email, please call me at 803-896-8035 for further clarification.

Please feel free to contact me with any questions and or concerns you may have.

Major F.O. McCant803-896-8035