DataWorks, Virginia

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First Sergeant David L. Ostwinkle
Virginia Department of State Police
Office of Legal Affairs
Bureau of Administrative and Support Services
(804) 674-8028 (Office)
(804) 674-2345 (Fax)
david.ostwinkle@vsp.virginia.gov (mailto:angela.kepus@vsp.virginia.gov)

Thank you for your recent Freedom of Information Act request. Due to the
volume of requests and manpower constraints, it is not practical for the
agency to respond in the 5 days permitted under Virginia Freedom of
Information Act. You are hereby notified that, pursuant to §
2.2-3704(B)(4), the agency is entitled to, and here by asserts its right to
claim, seven work days in addition to the five provided for in §
2.2-3704(B) in which to provide one of the responses set forth in §
2.2-3704.

Thank you,

Linda Redmond, Legal Secretary

On behalf of First Sergeant Ostwinkle

First Sergeant David L. Ostwinkle
Virginia Department of State Police
Office of Legal Affairs
Bureau of Administrative and Support Services
(804) 674-8028 (Office)
(804) 674-2345 (Fax)
david.ostwinkle@vsp.virginia.gov <angela.kepus@vsp.virginia.gov>
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From: <requests@muckrock.com>
Date: Mon, Nov 11, 2019 at 11:50 AM
Subject: Virginia Freedom of Information Act Request: DataWorks, Virginia
To: <foia@vsp.virginia.gov>

Virginia State Police
FOIA Office
P. O. Box 27472
Richmond, VA 23261-7472

November 11, 2019

To Whom It May Concern:

Pursuant to the Virginia Freedom of Information Act, I hereby request the
following records:

The company DataWorks Plus offers a series of products and tools for law
enforcement. They include:
- "FACE Plus," a facial recognition software and case management service
- "FACE Watch Plus," a real-time facial recognition screening tool
- "Biometric ID," a fingerprint, facial, iris, and voice identification tool
- "SAF-ID / RAPID-ID," a rapid biometric identification tool
- "Iris Plus," an iris capture and matching tool
- "Evolution," a mobile fingerprint scanner
- "NIST Manager Plus," a fingerprint archive & management tool
- "Inmate Tracking," armband or biometric tracking tools
- "Tattoo Plus," a tattoo image recognition tool

I am hereby requesting the following records that relate to these DataWorks
Plus products.

* Any contracts, purchase, orders, invoices, and receipts related to
DataWorks Plus products.

* All instructional materials, presentations and presentation materials
(including recorded video and audio, PowerPoint files, prepared remarks,
and slides formats), and other guidance on the use of DataWorks Plus
products. This includes A) any notes taken during meetings that discussed
the use of DataWorks Plus products, B) any explanations (whether internally
or externally generated) of how DataWorks Plus products, and C) any other
document that has been used to help explain the use of DataWorks Plus
products to any party, including internal documentation, public relations
materials, and executive summaries.

* A copy of any privacy impact assessments, use policies, standard
operating procedures, data retention policies, legal opinions, warranties,
non-disclosure agreements, contracts, liability waivers, insurance
agreements, Requests for Proposals, Responses to Requests for Proposal,
Memorandums of Understanding, Letters of Interest, usage policies, or
informal agreements between the police department and DataWorks Plus.

* A copy of any funding opportunity announcements, grant applications and
grantor status/progress reports, reports to legislative bodies, annual
reports that mention DataWorks Plus products as well as audit records,
including but not limited to security audits of the software, misuse
reports, and reports to oversight bodies.

* Any digital communications including but not limited to emails and text
messages) as well as documents, (including but not limited to PDF, word
processing, excel, and slide documents) that mention DataWorks Plus
products.

The requested documents will be made available to the general public, and
this request is not being made for commercial purposes. It will be used in
the course of reporting for BuzzFeed News. Therefore, I request that all
fees are waived in the processing of this request.

The requested documents will be made available to the general public, and
this request is not being made for commercial purposes.

In the event that there are fees, 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 5 business
days, as the statute requires.

Please note that I am a citizen of Virginia, and am using MuckRock's
services to help manage and track my request.

Sincerely,

Tom Nash

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Mr. Nash,

Please see attached a response with an estimate of costs for the
above-referenced request.

First Sergeant David L. Ostwinkle
Virginia Department of State Police
Office of Legal Affairs
Bureau of Administrative and Support Services
(804) 674-8028 (Office)
(804) 674-2345 (Fax)
david.ostwinkle@vsp.virginia.gov <angela.kepus@vsp.virginia.gov>