DC police roster 2023-3-14

Greetings,

My name is Andrew Addison, and I serve as the Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) Officer for the District’s Department of Human Resources (DCHR). In regard to your request below, it appears you submitted a previous FOIA request, numbered 2023-FOIA-04016, in which you submitted a substantially similar request to MPD. I am reaching out to confirm that you meant to submit this request to DCHR and not MPD. MPD will likely possess the information you are requesting, especially information like the employees’ badge numbers. If you prefer that DCHR also perform a record search, please respond to this email to confirm. From there I can create a request in our system and get started finding any records we may have.

Thank you and I look forward to hearing from you soon.
Best Regards,

Andrew Addison, Esq. | Attorney Advisor
District of Columbia Department of Human Resources (DCHR)
Office of General Counsel
Office: (202) 727-1742
Direct: (202) 308-0861

Good Morning,

Thank you for your response and clarification. I have documented your FOIA request as FOIA Request # 2023-FOIA-07131. Our office will begin our records search and you should expect a response in the coming days. If you have any additional comments or questions, please feel free to reach out to me via email at any time.
Best Regards,

Andrew Addison, Esq. | Attorney Advisor
District of Columbia Department of Human Resources (DCHR)
Office of General Counsel
Office: (202) 727-1742
Direct: (202) 308-0861

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Dear Sam Stecklow,

Your request has been received. The request has been assigned tracking # 2023-FOIA-07131.
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Good Afternoon,

Attached, please find DCHR's response to your FOIA Request, numbered 2023-FOIA-07131.
Best Regards,

Andrew Addison, Esq. | Attorney Advisor
District of Columbia Department of Human Resources (DCHR)
Office of General Counsel
Office: (202) 727-1742
Direct: (202) 308-0861

This is an automated message from the DC Government FOIA system. Dear Sam Stecklow, The status for your request is below. Please log into https://foia-dc.gov/palMain.aspx and go to Request Status. If you have any questions regarding the status of your request, please contact the agency's FOIA office that you had submitted your FOIA request to. You can communicate directly with the FOIA office by clicking on Inbox, search the request number, and then click Compose Message. OR, visit to see a list DC Government FOIA Office’s/officer’s contact information and have your Request ID ready. (https://dc.gov/node/818962) Contact FOIA Office Request status: Closed Request ID: 2023-FOIA-07131 Description: To Whom It May Concern:This is a public records request made via MuckRock under the DC Freedom of Information Act, seeking records related to law enforcement officer employment.This request is brought by Big Local News along with a collaboration of news organizations, including ABC News, KQED, MuckRock, the Invisible Institute and other news organizations. Big Local News is a program of Stanford University’s Journalism and Democracy Initiative and helps journalists collect, process and analyze public data. We are seeking any datasets, databases, and/or spreadsheets sufficient to show the following information regarding every current or former sworn employee of the DC MPD, year-by-year, dating back however far as the data exist for:First nameMiddle name or initialLast nameUnique employee identification numberStar or badge numberRaceGenderYear of birthRank/job titleSalary/compensationHire dateSeparation date, if applicableReason for separationIf your certification/roster system contains data elements not listed above, please include them in the response, provided they are releasable under the law. On the other hand, we recognize some of the information we are asking for may not be tracked by your system. If that is the case, we are willing to accept as many of the data elements as your agency maintains. If some records are more readily available, we are happy to receive partial information as soon as possible while the remaining request is processed. In addition to the data elements listed, we request documentation necessary to understand and interpret the data, including but not limited to record layouts, data dictionaries, code sheets, lookup tables, etc. Our preference is to receive structured data provided in a machine-readable text file, such as delimited or fixed-width formats. We can also handle a variety of other data formats including SQL databases, Excel workbooks and MS Access. If there are additional formats your agency would prefer to provide, please let us know. We are seeking this information as a news media organization on a matter of public interest concerning the conduct of government. As such, we ask for a waiver of all fees, if allowed under state law. If fees are necessary to reimburse the agency for actual costs, we agree to pay up to $100. If costs exceed that amount, please let us know before fulfilling the request.Please send clarifications and questions via electronic communication at any time. Thank you very much for your time and attention to this request.Sam StecklowJournalistInvisible Institute Regards,
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