Washington State Patrol information sharing MOUs

Dear Mr. Mocek:

Thank you for your inquiry to the Washington State Patrol. We have received your below public disclosure request.

Pursuant to RCW 42.56.520, we request clarification on your request for “(MOUs) regarding information sharing”. This part of your request does not provide “a reasonable description enabling the government employee to locate the requested records” and was not for clearly identifiable WSP public records, as required by RCW 42.56.080 (see also O’Neill v. City of Shoreline, 145 Wn. App. 913, 926 (2008)).

Please provide us with the type of “information sharing” you are refering to and the date range for MOUs on this topic. Once we have received clarification, we will be able to process your request. Pursuant to RCW 42.56.520, if clarification is not received within 30 calendar days, we will consider this request abandoned and cancel it. In that event, please feel free to resubmit your request at any time with the clarified elements included.

If you have any questions or need further assistance with this request, please contact me, in reference to PD-13-1055-0144.

Dear Mr. Mocek,

Thank you for your inquiry to the Washington State Patrol. Pursuant to RCW 42.56.520, this is notification that we have received your partial clarification of your public disclosure request (below). Because no date range for MOUs on this topic was provided, we understand your request to be for these records as far back in time as we have them. If that is not accurate, please let us know.

We anticipate it may take up to 50 days from the date of this notification to provide a proper response. Additional time is required due to the current volume of pending records requests, and to research this request, collect responsive records, notify involved parties, and/or prepare records for dissemination.

If there is a time frame you would like these records for, please let us know. This may reduce the length of time needed to respond to your request as worded.

If you have any questions, please feel free to contact me in reference to PD-13-1055-0144.

Thank you Mr. Mocek for the follow up. We anticipate completion within 25 days, given your below clarification.

A cover letter granting the request and outlining any exempted materials, if any.

A copy of documents responsive to the request.

A copy of documents responsive to the request.

A copy of documents responsive to the request.

Dear Mr. Mocek,

The first installment was mailed to you on May 16, 2013. Please let me know if you do not receive it in the next few days.

Dear Mr. Mocek:

The Washington State Patrol has completed the second installment of records responsive to your public disclosure request for:

“Memoranda of understanding (MOU's) regarding information sharing (the exchange of physical, analog, and digital data both public and non-public, gathered through Washington State Patrol resources and activities, regardless of transmission method) between Washington State Patrol and other entities (e.g., private businesses, trade associations, other police departments, fusion centers, federal agencies, etc.) and any agreements, binding or non-binding, to enter into or join groups, networks, or engage services providing information sharing of the same type. Information sharing in this context pertains to discreet information gathered about the public by the resources of the Washington State Patrol, not to information gathered internally about the Washington State Patrol for its own organizational, regulatory, or administrative reasons, and not to amalgamated statistical data provided to accredited academic entities for research purposes. Please narrow my request to include only otherwise-responsive MOUs that either A) are still effective, or B) expired within the past two years. At this time, I am not specifically interested in those that expired more than two years ago."

No information has been redacted or withheld from the enclosed records.

Pursuant to RCW 42.56.520, this is notification that we anticipate it may take up to 30 additional days from the date of this notification to provide the third installment of records. Additional time is required due to the current volume of pending records requests, the volume of responsive records, and to prepare records for dissemination.

If you have questions, please contact me in reference to PD-13-1055-0144.

A cover letter granting the request and outlining any exempted materials, if any.

A copy of documents responsive to the request.