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| Submitted | Jan. 30, 2015 |
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From: Brian K
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:
Documents (including memoranda, correspondence, emails, invoices and purchase orders, guidelines, presentations, policy statements, legal opinions, briefs, training manuals, records and any other documents including communications and procurements) regarding the Chicago Transit Authority and deals with Chicago Infrastructure Trust, the City of Chicago, Chicago Mayor's Office and companies T-Mobile, Sprint, Verizon, and AT&T.
I also request that, if appropriate, fees be waived as I believe this request is in the public interest. The requested documents will be made available to the general public free of charge as part of the public information service at MuckRock.com, processed by a representative of the news media/press and is made in the process of news gathering and not for commercial usage.
In the event that fees cannot be waived, 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.
Sincerely,
Brian K
From: FOIA
Dear Mr. Brian K.,
The Chicago Transit Authority (“CTA”) has received your Freedom of Information Act (“FOIA”) request. Your request, as currently stated, is very broad, does not include a time frame and requests over a dozen categories of records. As such, your request is unduly burdensome to process. Pursuant to Section 3(g) of FOIA, CTA is extending to you the opportunity to reduce your request to more manageable proportions and to consult with me, if necessary, to do so. 5 ILCS 140/3(g).
Please feel free to contact me if you have any questions.
Sincerely,
Brigett R. Bevan
Freedom of Information Officer
Chicago Transit Authority
567 W. Lake Street
Chicago, IL 60661
Telephone and Fax #: (312) 681-2809
From: Brian K
Hello, and thank you for your response.
I apologize for the broadness of my request.
Please narrow the focus of dates between January 2012 and January 2015. Please narrow the focus for documents to include emails, legal opinions, and briefs between the Chicago Transit Authority and the Chicago Infrastructure Trust, the City of Chicago, Chicago Mayor's Office and companies T-Mobile, Sprint, Verizon, and AT&T.
I hope this helps, but please don't hesitate to email me with any questions.
-Brian K.
From: FOIA
Dear Brian K,
Please find attached correspondence regarding your Freedom of Information Act request to the Chicago Transit Authority.
Sincerely,
Brigett R. Bevan
Freedom of Information Officer
Chicago Transit Authority
567 W. Lake Street
Chicago, IL 60661
Telephone and Fax #: (312) 681-2809
From: Brian K
Please narrow the focus of search to dates between January 2014 and January 2015. Please narrow the focus for documents to be emails between the Chicago Transit Authority and the Chicago Infrastructure Trust, the City of Chicago, Chicago Mayor's Office and with email subject or email body terms "T-Mobile," "Sprint," "Verizon," and "AT&T."
Please advise if there is technical barrier as I can provide more in-depth technical detail to complete this request.
Please advise as to an estimated time for delivery of the request. If the CTA finds this request to take longer than the statue allows I'm will to provide the CTA with extended time to complete the request.
If you're unable to fulfill this revised request, for any reason, please advise how you would proceed in fulfilling this request if you were the submitter.
I hope this helps, but please don't hesitate to email me with any questions.
-Brian K.
From: FOIA
Dear Brian K,
I have received your e-mail, and, since receiving it, I have been trying to determine the scope of your revised request. I suggest that we extend the deadline for a week at this point to February 20th for purposes of determining if revised request can be processed as is or to allow further consultation regarding how to reduce it to more manageable proportions, if necessary.
Please feel free to contact me if you have any questions.
Sincerely,
Brigett R. Bevan
Freedom of Information Officer
Chicago Transit Authority
567 W. Lake Street
Chicago, IL 60661
Telephone and Fax #: (312) 681-2809
From: FOIA
Dear Brian K.,
I am contacting you regarding the scope of your most recently revised Freedom of Information Act request to the Chicago Transit Authority. Your request, even as revised, would still encompass a very large number of e-mails and would be unduly burdensome to process even as narrowed. As part of a process of conferring with you in an attempt to reduce your request to more manageable proportions, is there any way that you can more specifically define what e-mails or category of e-mails that you looking for or, perhaps, what specific information or type of informatin that you are seeking in these e-mail?
Please feel free to contact me to confer further.
Sincerely,
Brigett R. Bevan
Freedom of Information Officer
Chicago Transit Authority
567 W. Lake Street
Chicago, IL 60661
Telephone and Fax #: (312) 681-2809
From: FOIA
Dear Brian K.,
I am following up with you regarding your FOIA request to CTA. Since we are continuing to confer, I suggest we extend the deadline again for an additional week to February 27th to see if your request can be reduce to more manageable portions and, if so, answered.
Please feel free to contact me if you have any questions or if you wish to confer further regarding your request.
Sincerely,
Brigett R. Bevan
Freedom of Information Officer
Chicago Transit Authority
567 W. Lake Street
Chicago, IL 60661
Telephone and Fax #: (312) 681-2809
From: Brian K
Hello, and thank you for your response.
Please narrow the focus of dates between January 2012 and January 2015. Please narrow the focus for documents to include memos, legal opinions, and briefs between the Chicago Transit Authority and the Chicago Infrastructure Trust, the City of Chicago, Chicago Mayor's Office in regard to companies T-Mobile, Sprint, Verizon, and AT&T.
I hope this helps, but please don't hesitate to email me with any questions.
From: FOIA
Dear Brian K.,
I received your revised FOIA request today, and we are evaluating its scope now. I suggest that we extend the response deadline to March 9, 2015 to allow that evaluation to be completed and, if possible, to allow CTA an opportunity to otherwise respond to this revised request.
Thanks,
Brigett R. Bevan
Freedom of Information Officer
Chicago Transit Authority
567 W. Lake Street
Chicago, IL 60661
Telephone and Fax #: (312) 681-2809
From: FOIA
Dear Brian K,
CTA is processing your most recent revised request. I suggest that we extend the deadline to Wednesday, March 11, 2015 for CTA’s response to this revised request.
Thanks,
Brigett R. Bevan
Freedom of Information Officer
Chicago Transit Authority
567 W. Lake Street
Chicago, IL 60661
Telephone and Fax #: (312) 681-2809
From: FOIA
Dear Brian K,
I am following up with you regarding your revised FOIA request to CTA. CTA is finalizing a response to your revised request now, and it should issue very soon, though it will not be today. I will follow up with you again tomorrow regarding your request.
Sincerely,
Brigett R. Bevan
Freedom of Information Officer
Chicago Transit Authority
567 W. Lake Street
Chicago, IL 60661
Telephone and Fax #: (312) 681-2809
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From: FOIA
Dear Brian K,
I am contacting you to update you on the status of your FOIA request to CTA. I anticipate that a response will issue to you soon. I will contact you again Monday afternoon if no response issues to you by that time.
Sincerely,
Brigett R. Bevan
Freedom of Information Officer
Chicago Transit Authority
567 W. Lake Street
Chicago, IL 60661
Telephone and Fax #: (312) 681-2809
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From: FOIA
Dear Brian K,
I am following up with you again regarding your FOIA request to CTA. This response will not issue today, but I still anticipate that it will issue soon. I will follow up with you again tomorrow.
Sincerely,
Brigett R. Bevan
Freedom of Information Officer
Chicago Transit Authority
567 W. Lake Street
Chicago, IL 60661
Telephone and Fax #: (312) 681-2809
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From: FOIA
Dear Brian K,
Per my e-mail yesterday, I am contacting you to update you on the status of your request. The response will not issue today, but it is nearly fully finalized now. I will follow up with you again tomorrow regarding your request.
Sincerely,
Brigett R. Bevan
Freedom of Information Officer
Chicago Transit Authority
567 W. Lake Street
Chicago, IL 60661
Telephone and Fax #: (312) 681-2809
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From: Brian K
Thank you for the follow-up, and please keep me informed of any changes.
Regards,
-Brian K.
From: FOIA
Dear Brian K,
Please find attached a response to your Freedom of Information Act request to the Chicago Transit Authority.
Sincerely,
Brigett R. Bevan
Freedom of Information Officer
Chicago Transit Authority
567 W. Lake Street
Chicago, IL 60661
Telephone and Fax #: (312) 681-2809
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