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February 05, 2020 Joseph Uchill MuckRock News DEPT MR 87520 411A Highland Ave Somerville, MA 02144-2516 RE: CISA Case Number 2020-NPFO-00100 Dear Mr. Uchill: This acknowledges receipt of yourFebruary 05, 2020, Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) request to U.S. Departmentof Homeland Security (DHS), Cybersecurity & Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA), for all emails, memos and reports demonstrating CISA offered to test the malfunctioning app used in Iowa to tabulate delegates in the Democratic caucus (Date Range for Record Search: From 7/1/2019 To 2/4/2020), and to your request for a waiver of all assessable FOIA fees. Yourrequest was received in this office on February 05, 2020. Due to the increasing number of FOIA requests received bythis office, we may encounter some delay in processing your request. PerSection 5.5(a) of the DHS FOIA regulations, 6 C.F.R. Part 5, CISA processes FOIA requests according to their order ofreceipt. Although CISA’s goal is to respond within 20 business days of receiptof your request, the FOIA does permit a 10- day extension of this time period.As your request seeks numerous documents that will necessitate a thorough andwide-ranging search, CISA will invoke a 10-day extension for your request, asallowed by 6 C.F.R. Part 5 § 5.5(c). If you care to narrow the scope ofyour request, please contact our office. We will make every effort to complywith your request in a timely manner. You have requested a feewaiver. The DHS FOIA Regulations at 6CFR § 5.11(k) set forth six factors CISA must evaluate to determine whetherthe applicable legal standard for a fee waiver has been met: (1) Whether the subject of the requestedrecords concerns “the operations or activities of the government,” (2) Whetherthe disclosure is “likely to contribute” to an understanding of governmentoperations or activities, (3) Whether disclosure of the requested informationwill contribute to the understanding of the public at large, as opposed to theindividual understanding of the requester or a narrow segment of interestedpersons, (4) Whether the contribution to public understanding of governmentoperations or activities will be “significant,” (5) Whether the requester has acommercial interest that would be furthered by the requested disclosure, and(6) Whether the magnitude of any identified commercial interest to therequester is sufficiently large in comparison with the public interest indisclosure, that disclosure is primarily in the commercial interest of therequester. Upon review of the subjectmatter of your request, and an evaluation of the six factors identified above, CISA has determined that it will conditionally grant your request for a feewaiver. The fee waiver determinationwill be based upon a sampling of the responsive documents received from thevarious CISA program offices as a result of the searches conducted in responseto your FOIA request. CISA will,pursuant to DHS regulations applicable to non-commercial requesters, processthe first 100 pages. If upon review ofthese documents, CISA determines that the disclosure of the informationcontained in those documents does not meet the factors permitting CISA to waivethe fees, then CISA will at that time either deny your request for a fee waiverentirely, or will allow for a percentage reduction in the amount of the feescorresponding to the amount of relevant material found that meets the factorsallowing for a fee waiver. In eithercase, CISA will promptly notify you of its final decision regarding yourrequest for a fee waiver and provide you with the responsive records as requiredby applicable law. In the event that your fee waiver is denied, and youdetermine that you still want the records, provisions of the FOIA allow us torecover part of the cost of complying with your request. We shall charge you for records in accordancewith the DHS FOIA regulations as they apply to non-commercial requestors.non-commercial As a requester you will be charged forany search time and duplication beyond the free two hours and 100 pagesmentioned in the previous paragraph. Youwill be charged 10 cents per page for duplication and search time at the perquarter-hour rate ($4.00 for clerical personnel, $7.00 for professionalpersonnel, $10.25 for managerial personnel) of the searcher. In the event that your fee waiver is denied,we will construe the submission of your request as an agreement to pay up to$25.00. This office will contact youbefore accruing any additional fees. We have queried the appropriate program offices within CISA for responsive records. If any responsive records are located, they will bereviewed for determination of releasability. Please be assured that one of theprocessors in our office will respond to your request as expeditiously aspossible. We appreciate your patience as we proceed with your request. If you have any questions or wish to discussreformulation or an alternative time frame for the processing of your request,please contact FOIA office. You may sendan e-mail to CISAFOIA@HQ.DHS.GOV ,call free 703-235-2211 , or you may contact our FOIA Public Liaison inthe same manner. Additionally, you havea right to seek dispute resolution services from the Office of GovernmentInformation Services (OGIS) which mediates disputes between FOIA requesters andFederal agencies as a non-exclusive alternative to litigation. If you are requesting access to your ownrecords (which is considered a Privacy Act request), you should know that OGISdoes not have the authority to handle requests made under the Privacy Act of1974. You may contact OGIS asfollows: Office of GovernmentInformation Services, National Archives and Records Administration, 8601Adelphi Road-OGIS, College Park, Maryland 20740-6001, e-mail at ogis@nara.gov;telephone at 202-741-5770; toll free at 1-877-684-6448; or facsimile at202-741-5769. Your request has been assigned reference number 2020-NPFO-00100. Please refer to thisidentifier in any future correspondence. To check the status of an CISA FOIA request, please visit http://www.dhs.gov/foia-status . Please note that to check the status ofa request, you must enter the 2020-NPFO-00100 tracking number. Sincerely, CISAFOIA

February 12, 2020 Joseph Uchill MuckRock MuckRock News DEPT MR 87520 411A Highland Ave Somerville, MA 02144-2516 RE: CISA Case Number 2020-NPFO-00107 Dear Mr. Uchill: This acknowledges receipt of yourFebruary 09, 2020, Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) request to U.S. Departmentof Homeland Security (DHS), Cybersecurity & Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA), for warnings sent to the Democratic party or elections' authorities of any state besides Iowa concerning the Shadow Inc.-designed caucus app that struggled to produce results at the Iowa primary. Your requestwas received in this office on February 11, 2020. Due to the increasing number of FOIA requests received bythis office, we may encounter some delay in processing your request. PerSection 5.5(a) of the DHS FOIA regulations, 6 C.F.R. Part 5, CISA processes FOIA requests according to their order ofreceipt. Although CISA’s goal is to respond within 20 business days of receiptof your request, the FOIA does permit a 10- day extension of this time period.As your request seeks numerous documents that will necessitate a thorough andwide-ranging search, CISA will invoke a 10-day extension for your request, asallowed by Title 5 U.S.C. § 552(a)(6)(B). If you care to narrow the scope ofyour request, please contact our office. We will make every effort to complywith your request in a timely manner. Provisions of the FOIA allow us torecover part of the cost of complying with your request. We shall charge you for records in accordancewith the DHS FOIA regulations, as they apply to media requesters. As a media requester, you will be charged 10cents per page for duplication; the first 100 pages are free. We will construe the submission of yourrequest as an agreement to pay up to $25.00. You will be contacted before anyfurther fees are accrued. We have queried the appropriate program offices within CISA for responsive records. If any responsive records are located, they will bereviewed for determination of releasability. Please be assured that one of theprocessors in our office will respond to your request as expeditiously aspossible. We appreciate your patience as we proceed with your request. If you have any questions or wish to discussreformulation or an alternative time frame for the processing of your request,please contact FOIA office. You may sendan e-mail to CISAFOIA@HQ.DHS.GOV (mailto:CISAFOIA@HQ.DHS.GOV) ,call free 703-235-2211 , or you may contact our FOIA Public Liaison inthe same manner. Additionally, you havea right to seek dispute resolution services from the Office of GovernmentInformation Services (OGIS) which mediates disputes between FOIA requesters andFederal agencies as a non-exclusive alternative to litigation. If you are requesting access to your ownrecords (which is considered a Privacy Act request), you should know that OGISdoes not have the authority to handle requests made under the Privacy Act of1974. You may contact OGIS asfollows: Office of GovernmentInformation Services, National Archives and Records Administration, 8601Adelphi Road-OGIS, College Park, Maryland 20740-6001, e-mail at ogis@nara.gov;telephone at 202-741-5770; toll free at 1-877-684-6448; or facsimile at202-741-5769. Your request has been assigned reference number 2020-NPFO-00107. Please refer to thisidentifier in any future correspondence. Tocheck the status of an CISA FOIA request, please visit http://www.dhs.gov/foia-status . Please note that to check the status of a request, you must enter the 2020-NPFO-00107 tracking number. Sincerely, CISA FOIA

Greetings,

Your request for all emails, memos and reports demonstrating CISA offered to test the malfunctioning app used in Iowa to tabulate delegates in the Democratic caucus (Date Range for Record Search: From 7/1/2019 To 2/4/2020) is assigned to the appropriate program office for search. Upon completion of the search, you will be immediately notified.

Respectfully,

FOIA
Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency
U.S. Department of Homeland Security
Desk: 703-235-2211
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Good Morning, Attached is our final response to your request.  If you need to contact this office again concerning your request, please provide the DHS reference number. This will enable us to quickly retrieve the information you are seeking and reduce our response time. This office can be reached at 866-431-0486. Regards, DHS Privacy Office
Disclosure & FOIA Program
STOP 0655
Department of Homeland Security
245 Murray Drive, SW
Washington, DC 20528-0655
Telephone:  1-866-431-0486 or 202-343-1743
Fax:  202-343-4011
Visit our FOIA website

Good Afternoon, Attached is our final response to your request.  If you need to contact this office again concerning your request, please provide the DHS reference number. This will enable us to quickly retrieve the information you are seeking and reduce our response time. This office can be reached at 866-431-0486. Regards, DHS Privacy Office
Disclosure & FOIA Program
STOP 0655
Department of Homeland Security
245 Murray Drive, SW
Washington, DC 20528-0655
Telephone:  1-866-431-0486 or 202-343-1743
Fax:  202-343-4011
Visit our FOIA website