Criminal Hackers Target Police to Protest Perceived Injustices (Metropolitan Police Department)

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Dear Emma Best,
Request Number 2019-FOIA-06052 has been assigned to the request you submitted in relation to: Request description: To Whom It May Concern:Pursuant to the Freedom of Information Act, I hereby request the following records:Records mentioning, describing or generated as a result of the 8 May 2015 Roll Call Release IA-0181-15 (which was designed to be shared widely with law enforcement) from the Department of Homeland Security's Office of intelligence and Analysis (I&A) in conjunction with the Federal Bureau of Investigation, titled "Criminal Hackers Target Police to Protest Perceived Injustices," as well as records otherwise responding or reacting to the issues raised in it.I am a member of the news media and request classification as such. I have previously written about the government and its activities, with some reaching over 100,000 readers in outlets such as Gizmodo, MuckRock, Motherboard, Property of the People, Unicorn Riot, and The Outline, among others. As such, as I have a reasonable expectation of publication and my editorial and writing skills are well established. In addition, I discuss and comment on the files online and make them available through non-profits such as the library Internet Archive and the journalist non-profit MuckRock, disseminating them to a large audience. While my research is not limited to this, a great deal of it, including this, focuses on the activities and attitudes of the government itself.As my primary purpose is to inform about government activities by reporting on it and making the raw data available, I request that fees be waived.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 20 business days, as the statute requires.Sincerely,Emma BestAttachments:https://cdn.muckrock.com/outbound_composer_attachments/TheEmmaBest/71845/DHS-FBI-HackersTargetPolice.pdfUpload documents directly: https://https://www.muckrock.comhttps://www.muckrock.com/ (Date Range for Record Search: From 05/08/2015 To 06/28/2019) In all future correspondence regarding this request, please reference request number 2019-FOIA-06052.

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Dear Ms. Best,
Per our e-mail communication sent to you via e-mail on August 9, 2019 seeking clarification to fulfill your request, you are hereby being notified that because we have not heard from you in the time-frame allotted in our communication, your FOIA request assigned 2019-FOIA-06052 has been withdrawn.
Regards, Lisa Archie-Mills Supervisory FOIA Specialist Metropolitan Police Department Washington, DC  20001 (202) 727-3721

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Request ID: 2019-FOIA-06052
Description: To Whom It May Concern:Pursuant to the Freedom of Information Act, I hereby request the following records:Records mentioning, describing or generated as a result of the 8 May 2015 Roll Call Release IA-0181-15 (which was designed to be shared widely with law enforcement) from the Department of Homeland Security's Office of intelligence and Analysis (I&A) in conjunction with the Federal Bureau of Investigation, titled "Criminal Hackers Target Police to Protest Perceived Injustices," as well as records otherwise responding or reacting to the issues raised in it.I am a member of the news media and request classification as such. I have previously written about the government and its activities, with some reaching over 100,000 readers in outlets such as Gizmodo, MuckRock, Motherboard, Property of the People, Unicorn Riot, and The Outline, among others. As such, as I have a reasonable expectation of publication and my editorial and writing skills are well established. In addition, I discuss and comment on the files online and make them available through non-profits such as the library Internet Archive and the journalist non-profit MuckRock, disseminating them to a large audience. While my research is not limited to this, a great deal of it, including this, focuses on the activities and attitudes of the government itself.As my primary purpose is to inform about government activities by reporting on it and making the raw data available, I request that fees be waived.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 20 business days, as the statute requires.Sincerely,Emma BestAttachments:https://cdn.muckrock.com/outbound_composer_attachments/TheEmmaBest/71845/DHS-FBI-HackersTargetPolice.pdfUpload documents directly: https://https://www.muckrock.comhttps://www.muckrock.com/ (Date Range for Record Search: From 05/08/2015 To 06/28/2019) Regards,
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