NH police budget and employment data (Sullivan County Sheriff's Office)
| Multi Request | NH police budget and employment data |
| Submitted | Oct. 5, 2021 |
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From: Granite State News Collaborative
To Whom It May Concern:
Pursuant to the New Hampshire Right to Know Law, I respectfully request the following records related to this municipality's police department hiring, employment, and funding for the budget years 2000 through 2020:
BUDGET and FUNDING DATA - Records sufficient to show funding for municipal law enforcement offices and activities for the years 2000 through 2020.
If possible, please provide the itemized budget allocated for public safety and police department activities for each year, as well as records sufficient to show any additional funding received through other means, including but not limited to:
• funds for capital expenditures
• grants
• donations
HIRING and EMPLOYMENT DATA - Records sufficient to show the following data regarding police department employment for the years 2000 through 2020.
• The number of employed law enforcement officers (as defined by RSA 105-D:1). Please provide the date on which the provided numbers were accurate.
• Annual demographic information (age, race, gender) of law enforcement officers employed by this municipality
• Annual demographic information (age, race, gender) of any individual employed in a position of leadership within this municipality’s public safety or law enforcement department
If any of the requested information is available in aggregate form, provision of this aggregate information by year would likely satisfy this request. If there are any known caveats involved with the data and information your office is able to provide, I would really appreciate it if you could share them with me.
*Please note* that if any of the requested information is held by another office or agency, direction to the appropriate office would be greatly appreciated.
I understand that many departments do not file an EEO-1 form or/or do not track all the demographic information that we are requesting. I am not requesting a new record be created. However, if there are records your agency maintains, including but not limited to hiring intake forms, employee cards, or other records that contain information about age, gender or race, I would like an electronic copy of those records or the opportunity to inspect them. We have made requests from multiple agencies in New Hampshire and have found that other small departments do maintain age or gender information in personnel files even if they do not file an EEO-1 form.
This request is being made on behalf of the statewide nonprofit Granite State News Collaborative. This request is not being made for commercial purposes. It is being made as part of a journalistic data collection effort to benefit news organizations and the public good throughout the State of New Hampshire.
If your office anticipates that fees associated with the processing of this request, I would be grateful if you would inform me of the total charges in advance of fulfilling my request. I would prefer the request be filled electronically, by e-mail attachment if available or CD-ROM if not.
Please call 617-500-7123 with any questions about this request. If your call is not answered, please leave a message and your call will be returned as soon as possible.
I look forward to receiving your response to this request within five business days, as required by law.
Thank you in advance for your anticipated cooperation in this matter. I really appreciate your time and help.
Sincerely,
Beryl Lipton, Granite State News Collaborative
From: Muckrock Staff
To Whom It May Concern:
I wanted to follow up on the following New Hampshire Right to Know Law request, copied below, and originally submitted on Oct. 5, 2021. 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: Sullivan County Sheriff's Office
Good Morning,
Your original Right to Know request was received in my inbox on October 6th. I was out of the office that day and opened the message on October 7th when I returned. I brought the request to the County Manager’s Office and began a discussion on what department’s within the county would be called upon to assist me in gathering the data you are requesting. Monday, October 11th was a holiday where County offices were closed. On Tuesday, October 12th I submitted your request to the County Commissioner’s Office as well as the Human Resources Department. Those two departments as well as my own are currently working to obtain all of the information.
Some of the information is on our County website while others are in hard copies that will require my staff to organize and scan into an electronic document for you. Once everything is collected and organized, I will be able to provide you a complete package by Friday, October 22nd. There will be no fee and everything will be forwarded via email.
If you have any questions, please feel free to call me.
Respectfully,
John Simonds
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Sheriff John P. Simonds
Sullivan County Sheriff’s Office
14 Main Street, PO Box 27
Newport, NH 03773
Phone(603)863-4200
Fax (603)863-0012
“It’s all about public service”
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From: Sullivan County Sheriff's Office
Good Afternoon,
Below is a breakdown of the documents attached with the email in response to your “right to know” request.
Pursuant to the New Hampshire Right to Know Law, I respectfully request the following records related to this municipality's police department hiring, employment, and funding for the budget years 2000 through 2020:
BUDGET and FUNDING DATA - Records sufficient to show funding for municipal law enforcement offices and activities for the years 2000 through 2020.
If possible, please provide the itemized budget allocated for public safety and police department activities for each year, as well as records sufficient to show any additional funding received through other means, including but not limited to:
• funds for capital expenditures
• grants
• donations
Attached are budget and employee documents which I believe will fulfill your request of my office. Sullivan County did not begin using it’s current budgeting software until 2005. From 2000 to 2003 fiscal years, the documents are copies from “hard copies” from our County Reports which are printed yearly. It was difficult to break down the exact Sheriff’s Budget pages from these documents so some of the information is mixed in with other county department information. This information contains grants that were accepted by the county for the Sheriff’s Office and grant information is also available under the revenue section of the budgets attached.
2006 to 2020 budget information is contained in one single spreadsheet with a page for each year. I have included the operating budget for each year.
HIRING and EMPLOYMENT DATA - Records sufficient to show the following data regarding police department employment for the years 2000 through 2020.
• The number of employed law enforcement officers (as defined by RSA 105-D:1). Please provide the date on which the provided numbers were accurate.
• Annual demographic information (age, race, gender) of law enforcement officers employed by this municipality
• Annual demographic information (age, race, gender) of any individual employed in a position of leadership within this municipality’s public safety or law enforcement department
Employee information requested is attached in a separate document and lists the demographic information of all Deputies employed by the Sheriff’s Office since 2000. This spreadsheet provides information accurate up to today.
If you have any questions regarding the attached information, please let me know. I would be happy to speak by phone or email.
Respectfully,
John Simonds
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Sheriff John P. Simonds
Sullivan County Sheriff’s Office
14 Main Street, PO Box 27
Newport, NH 03773
Phone(603)863-4200
Fax (603)863-0012
“It’s all about public service”
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Sheriff's Office Employees 2000-2020
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Records Request Sheriff's Office Budgets 2006 through 2020
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