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To Whom It May Concern:

Pursuant to Utah’s Government Records Access and Management Act (“GRAMA”), I hereby request the following records:

- Number of individuals authorized by the PM-ISE to access the Statewide Information & Analysis Center (SIAC) intelligence databases who are not employed by the SIAC or a contractor.

- Number and list of non-fusion center agencies authorized to access the SIAC's intelligence databases.

- Number and list of source agencies who have submitted information SIAC's intelligence databases.

- Number of times information posted to the SIAC's intelligence databases had to be corrected or removed because it was erroneous or deficient, or because the source agency did not have authority to gather or share the information.

- Any documents relating to any instances where source agencies were determined to have used prohibited means to acquire information, or to have lacked the authority to acquire the original information or submit it to the SIAC's intelligence databases.

- Number and list of agencies who have violated the SIAC's privacy policy.

- Records of all complaints received by the SIAC and requests for corrections and the resulting action, if any.

- Number of suspicious incident reports in the SIAC's intelligence databases.

- Number of suspicious activity reports in the SIAC's intelligence databases.

- Number of field interview reports in the SIAC's intelligence databases.

- Number and list of all public agencies and private contractors providing SAR (suspicious activity reporting) and ISE-SAR information technology or related services to the SIAC.

- Breakdown of the number of tips and leads in the SIAC's intelligence databases acquired via intelligence information or email, phone, internet or incident report submission.

- Number of tips and leads in the SIAC's intelligence databases acquired from cellphone tower dumps, cell site simulators (commonly known as "Stingrays"), and surveillance cameras.

- List of external agencies that access the SIAC's intelligence databases or share information with the SIAC.

- Number of persons within the SIAC or in other governmental agencies who are authorized to have access to the SIAC's intelligence databases.

- Number of complaints made to the Privacy Officer of the SIAC.

- Number of times the SIAC has notified individuals that their personal information was or is reasonably believed to have been breached or obtained by an unauthorized person.

- Number of times SIAC personnel, a participating agency, or an authorized user have been found to be in noncompliance with the SIAC policy in regards to the gathering, collection, use, retention, destruction, sharing, classification, or disclosure of information.

- Number of times SIAC personnel, a contractor, a participating agency, or an authorized user have been suspended, sanctioned, or otherwise disciplined.

- A copy of all contracts held by the SIAC.

- A list of all ISE-SAR Titles, as described on page 19: http://www.dhs.gov/xlibrary/assets/privacy/privacy-pia-dhswide-sar-ise-appendix.pdf

- A list of all entries in the "Community Description" field of Suspicious Activity Reports held by the SIAC, as described on page 20: http://www.dhs.gov/xlibrary/assets/privacy/privacy-pia-dhswide-sar-ise-appendix.pdf

- A list of all entries in the "Observation Description Text" field of Suspicious Activity Reports held by the SIAC, as described on page 20: http://www.dhs.gov/xlibrary/assets/privacy/privacy-pia-dhswide-sar-ise-appendix.pdf

- A copy of all Suspicious Activity Reports that contain any of the following words or phrases: "Animal Liberation Front", "ALF", "Earth Liberation Front", "ELF", "Mercy for Animals" or "PETA".

I also request that, if appropriate, fees be waived as I believe this request is in the public interest. The requested documents will be made available to the general public free of charge as part of the public information service at MuckRock.com, processed by a representative of the news media/press and is made in the process of news gathering and not for commercial usage.

In the event that fees cannot be waived, I would be grateful if you would inform me of the total charges in advance of fulfilling my request. I would prefer the request filled electronically, by e-mail attachment if available or CD-ROM if not.

Thank you in advance for your anticipated cooperation in this matter. I look forward to receiving your response to this request within 10 business days, as the statute requires.

Sincerely,

Evan Anderson

To Whom It May Concern:

I wanted to follow up on the following Freedom of Information request, copied below, and originally submitted on Nov. 11, 2014. Please let me know when I can expect to receive a response, or if further clarification is needed.

Thank you for your help.

To Whom It May Concern:

I wanted to follow up on the following Freedom of Information request, copied below, and originally submitted on Nov. 11, 2014. Please let me know when I can expect to receive a response, or if further clarification is needed.

Thank you for your help.

To Whom It May Concern:

I wanted to follow up on the following Freedom of Information request, copied below, and originally submitted on Nov. 11, 2014. Please let me know when I can expect to receive a response, or if further clarification is needed.

Thank you for your help.

Hello,

When can I expect to receive an update to this request? I was given an estimate of December 9, 2014, but it is now more than a month since that date. Please update me on the status of my request.

Thank you,

Evan

Hello Mr. Scott,

The public records request below has been forwarded to your office for processing. Could you please confirm that it has been received and provide an estimated date of completion?

Thank you very much.

Keith D. Squires
Commissioner
4501 South 2700 West
Salt Lake City, Utah 84114

Hello,

Please consider this an appeal to the completion of my Freedom of Information Act request, originally submitted on November 11, 2014.

Specifically, I am appealing the exemptions to the following items from my request:

1. Number and list of non-fusion center agencies authorized to access the SIAC's intelligence databases.

2. Number and list of source agencies who have submitted information SIAC's intelligence databases.

3. Number and list of all public agencies and private contractors providing SAR (suspicious activity reporting) and ISE-SAR information technology or related services to the SIAC.

4. List of external agencies that access the SIAC's intelligence databases or share information with the SIAC.

5. Number of times SIAC personnel, a participating agency, or an authorized user have been found to be in noncompliance with the SIAC policy in regards to the gathering, collection, use, retention, destruction, sharing, classification, or disclosure of information.

6. Number of times SIAC personnel, a contractor, a participating agency, or an authorized user have been suspended, sanctioned, or otherwise disciplined.

7. A copy of all Suspicious Activity Reports that contain any of the following words or phrases: "Animal Liberation Front", "ALF", "Earth Liberation Front", "ELF", "Mercy for Animals" or "PETA".

Items 1 - 4 and item 7 were explained as being exempt from disclosure pursuant to Utah State Code 63G-2-305(10)(a) & (e). (10)(a) states that records are exempt from disclosure if disclosure "reasonably could be expected to interfere with investigations undertaken for enforcement, discipline, licensing, certification, or registration purposes;" while (10)(e) states that records are exempt from disclosure if disclosure "reasonably could be expected to disclose investigative or audit techniques, procedures, policies, or orders not generally known outside of government if disclosure would interfere with enforcement or audit efforts;"

It is difficult to imagine how items 1 - 4, which request merely a list of agencies which provide and/or have access to SAR information, could interfere with law enforcement investigations or could "disclose investigative or audit techniques." As such, I am appealing the response to these items, with a modification to item 3 to the following:

3. Number and list of all public agencies and private contractors providing SAR or related services to the SIAC.

In addition, I would like to modify items 5 and 6 in order to be specific enough to produce responsive documents, as well as item 7.

Therefore, my appeal/modified request is the following:

1. Number and list of non-fusion center agencies authorized to access the SIAC's intelligence databases.

2. Number and list of source agencies who have submitted information SIAC's intelligence databases.

3. Number and list of all public agencies and private contractors providing SAR or related services to the SIAC.

4. List of external agencies that access the SIAC's intelligence databases or share information with the SIAC.

5. Number of times SIAC personnel, a participating agency, or an authorized user have been found to be in noncompliance with the SIAC policy in regards to the gathering, collection, use, retention, destruction, sharing, classification, or disclosure of information.

6. Number of times SIAC personnel, a contractor, a participating agency, or an authorized user have been suspended, sanctioned, or otherwise disciplined.

7. The number of Suspicious Activity Reports containing each of the following words or phrases: "Animal Liberation Front", "ALF", "Earth Liberation Front", "ELF", "Mercy for Animals" or "PETA".

Thank you for your anticipated cooperation.

Sincerely,

Evan

I realize I forgot to modify items 5 and 6. I would like to modify them to the following:

5. Number of times SIAC personnel have violated the SIAC privacy policy.

6. Number of times SIAC personnel have been disciplined.

Sorry about that.

Evan

Hi there,

Please acknowledge my appeal, sent over a year ago. Thank you.

Evan