Chicago Police Operation Capitol Hill Asset Forfeiture

To Whom It May Concern:

Pursuant to the Illinois Freedom of Information Act (5 ILCS 140/1 to 11), I hereby request the following records:

Any emails sent or received by any employee of any division of the Chicago Police Department (CPD) between the dates of December 01, 2006 and May 01, 2008 containing the keywords "Operation Capitol Hill", "asset forfeiture", "1505" or "1505ML".

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. I would also like to request that the responsive documents/data be provided in a machine readable format or in the original format it was created in, with all original metadata of documents/data intact.

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.

Sincerely,

Brian Kroll
Lucy Parsons Labs

Daphne, thanks for the note I look forward to your future response.

Daphne,

I find it hard to believe that a search of CPD records came up with zero results as Operation Capitol Hill was widely reported on by local press, and publicized by CPD commanders. "Asset forfeiture", "1505" or "1505ML" are also common terms used on a vast number of cases CPD is involved in, and I have received many documents back from CPD with those exact same terms used in many emails, among other documents.

Will you advise me of how the search was conducted and if I need to narrow the scope of this request to fulfill this request?

Thanks!

-Brian Kroll