Cannabis Arrest ,Citations & Memos (Georgia Department of Public Safety)

Good Day,

Open Records Request has been received! In accordance with the Georgia Open Records Act, our response timing will depend upon the reach and depth of your request. Thus, you should expect information regarding availability or production within 3 business days and up to 2 weeks, unless you are otherwise further advised. Charges will be imposed for search, retrieval, redaction, and production, as per the DPS Charging Chart. See https://dps.georgia.gov/charging-fees-open-records-requests. Also, DPS is excited to offer EPORTS, an online system to simplify the request-response-payment process "Starting November 4, 2020, Use EPORTS!". Please review our website for information and use.
Thanks,
Open Records

Your request has been submitted,your request number is MEDI08695622.

You can check your request status by going to http://gadps-eports.net and entering your request number in the search bar.

You will receive an email once your request has been completed

Here is the DPS Charging Chart for your reference https://dps.georgia.gov/charging-fees-open-records-requests

Thank you
Open Records Unit
Georgia Department of Public Safety

Good afternoon,

We are in receipt of your open records request. The Department of Public Safety does not maintain records for all state agencies. We will seek reimbursement pursuant to the DPS charging chart and consistent with Georgia law. Please see O.C.G.A. §50-18-71. For fee information, please review our charging chart at https://dps.georgia.gov/charging-fees-open-records-requests.

To determine DPS (Georgia State Patrol, Capitol Police, MCCD) citations issued between "January 1st 2021- February 19th 2022 for marijuana & or cannabis" by gender, age and ethnicity a query can be conducted at an hourly rate of $73.99 per hour. This task will be conducted by an IT specialist with the capability of performing such a search on a protected system. Any hits will be transferred to a spreadsheet and after reviewing the spreadsheet, if you want to request any individual citations, the search, retrieval, review, redaction, and production tasks will be charged at a reimbursement fee of $1.00 each with the first one free. Please note that even if we have no responsive records, you are responsible for the query time. Because the cost will likely exceed $25.00, we will wait for your agreement to pay the estimated costs before completing the request. Please see O.C.G.A. §50-18-71(d)).

Please let us know if you want a query estimate and we will reach out to our IT specialist for a time and cost estimate. If we don't hear from you within two weeks this request will be closed.

Thank you,

Nkenge Green
Attorney Manager, Open Records Unit
Legal Services Division
Georgia Department of Public Safety
959 United Avenue SE
Atlanta, Georgia 30316
Phone: 404-624-7591
Fax: 404-624-7788
ngreen@gsp.net<mailto:ngreen@gsp.net>

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https://eports.gamccd.net/orportal

Information about your request:

Request Number: MEDI08695622.

Request Status: WAITING ON MORE INFO.

Please visit the site http://gadps-eports.net (http://gadps-eports.net)

Good afternoon,

You followed up on a request that has already been responded to. Please see below. We marked the status as "Waiting for More Info" because we are waiting to find out whether you want a query. If we don't hear from you within two weeks, this request will be closed.

Thank you,

Nkenge Green
Attorney Manager, Open Records Unit
Legal Services Division
Georgia Department of Public Safety
959 United Avenue SE
Atlanta, Georgia 30316
Phone: 404-624-7591
Fax: 404-624-7788
ngreen@gsp.net<mailto:ngreen@gsp.net>

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https://eports.gamccd.net/orportal

Good morning,

The estimated query time is thirty minutes or $36.99. Because the cost exceeds $25.00, we will wait for your agreement to pay the estimated costs before completing the request. Please see O.C.G.A. §50-18-71(d)). Please confirm your intent to pay so we may process your request. If we don’t hear from you in two weeks, this request will be closed.

Thank you,

Nkenge Green
Attorney Manager, Open Records Unit
Legal Services Division
Georgia Department of Public Safety
959 United Avenue SE
Atlanta, Georgia 30316
Phone: 404-624-7591
Fax: 404-624-7788
ngreen@gsp.net<mailto:ngreen@gsp.net>

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https://eports.gamccd.net/orportal

Good afternoon,

We replied to your request on 3/3, please see below. The estimated query time is thirty minutes or $36.99. Because the cost exceeds $25.00 the law requires that we receive your agreement to pay before fulfilling the request. O.C.G.A. §50-18-71(d). Since we did not receive a response within two weeks the request was closed.

Please let us know if you are confirming your intent to pay for the query so we may reopen this request.

Thank you,

Nkenge Green
Attorney Manager, Open Records Unit
Legal Services Division
Georgia Department of Public Safety
959 United Avenue SE
Atlanta, Georgia 30316
Phone: 404-624-7591
Fax: 404-624-7788
ngreen@gsp.net<mailto:ngreen@gsp.net>

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https://eports.gamccd.net/orportal

Good afternoon,

Please confirm your intent to pay the $36.99 pursuant to O.C.G.A. §50-18-71(d).

Thank you,

Nkenge Green
Attorney Manager, Open Records Unit
Legal Services Division
Georgia Department of Public Safety
959 United Avenue SE
Atlanta, Georgia 30316
Phone: 404-624-7591
Fax: 404-624-7788
ngreen@gsp.net<mailto:ngreen@gsp.net>

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https://eports.gamccd.net/orportal

Good afternoon,

Thank you for confirming your intent to pay. We anticipate providing any available, releasable records within one week.

With regards,

Nkenge Green
Attorney Manager, Open Records Unit
Legal Services Division
Georgia Department of Public Safety
959 United Avenue SE
Atlanta, Georgia 30316
Phone: 404-624-7591
Fax: 404-624-7788
ngreen@gsp.net<mailto:ngreen@gsp.net>

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https://eports.gamccd.net/orportal

Good morning,

My apologies that you have not received a satisfactory response by now. We have reached out to the IT specialist and will update you shortly.

Thank you,

Nkenge Green
Attorney Manager, Open Records Unit
Legal Services Division
Georgia Department of Public Safety
959 United Avenue SE
Atlanta, Georgia 30316
Phone: 404-624-7591
Fax: 404-624-7788
ngreen@gsp.net<mailto:ngreen@gsp.net>

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https://eports.gamccd.net/orportal

Good afternoon,

Do you want to close your request or are you still interested in a query? Please advise.

Thank you,

Nkenge Green
Attorney Manager, Open Records Unit
Legal Services Division
Georgia Department of Public Safety
959 United Avenue SE
Atlanta, Georgia 30316
Phone: 404-624-7591
Fax: 404-624-7788
ngreen@gsp.net<mailto:ngreen@gsp.net>

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https://eports.gamccd.net/orportal

Good afternoon,

Thank you for calling and clarifying that you still intend to proceed. Your request is still being processed and we will provide the query results and an invoice as soon as we can.

Best regards,

Nkenge Green
Attorney Manager, Open Records Unit
Legal Services Division
Georgia Department of Public Safety
959 United Avenue SE
Atlanta, Georgia 30316
Phone: 404-624-7591
Fax: 404-624-7788
ngreen@gsp.net<mailto:ngreen@gsp.net>

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https://eports.gamccd.net/orportal

Good afternoon,

Please accept my sincere apologies that you have not received a satisfactory response by now. We have been extremely short-staffed but we anticipate providing your query results within one week.

Thank you,

Nkenge Green

Good afternoon,

We are providing you with the query results pursuant to your open records request. Please see attached. The cost for search, retrieval, review, and production is $36.99. Citations cost $1.00 each with the first one free. Please let us know if you want to request any. For fee information, please see O.C.G.A. §50-18-71 and the charging chart at https://dps.georgia.gov/charging-fees-open-records-requests. Please submit payment via a credit or debit card by going to our EPORTs system (www.gadps-eports.net<http://www.gadps-eports.net>) and by referencing the ORU# MEDI08695622. Or please mail a check or money order along with the attached invoice to:

Georgia Department of Public Safety
Attention: Open Records Manager
PO Box 1456
Atlanta, GA 30371

Please make sure to reference your check with ORU # MEDI08695622.

Note:
• Payment must be received within two weeks in lieu of applicable statutory penalties. See O.C.G.A. § 50-18-71(d).
• The charges provided are not copy fees. The charges provided constitute a sum which is lower than the pro-rated salary for search, retrieval, review, redaction and production by each of the lowest paid full-time employees who, in the reasonable discretion of the Department, has the necessary skill and training to locate and provide responsive documents in each category listed. See O.C.G.A. § 50-18-71(b)(3).
• The charges provided constitute an automatic 15-minute reduction in each category of fees, which assures that such flat-fees are well-below the statutory guideline.

Thank you,

Nkenge Green
Attorney Manager, Open Records Unit
Legal Services Division
Georgia Department of Public Safety
959 United Avenue SE
Atlanta, Georgia 30316
Phone: 404-624-7591
Fax: 404-624-7788
ngreen@gsp.net<mailto:ngreen@gsp.net>

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https://eports.gamccd.net/orportal

A response to your request Your request with the request number has been completed. MEDI08695622 has been completed successfully!

Request Status: COMPLETE.

Request Status Notes: The spreadsheet was emailed along with an invoice. Please disregard any error message. If paying online, please only click "submit" one time. Thank you..

To access your report and pay online, please click the link below and search by request number.
http://gadps-eports.net (http://gadps-eports.net)

For information regarding fees, please click here: https://dps.georgia.gov/charging-fees-open-records-requests (https://dps.georgia.gov/charging-fees-open-records-requests)

Thank you.
Open Records Unit
Georgia Department of Public Safety

Good morning,

We received a follow up fax that was checking the status of open records request MEDI08695622. The query was forwarded on April 26, 2022, please see below. It has been attached a second time along with an invoice. Please submit your $36.99 payment via a credit or debit card by going to our EPORTs system (www.gadps-eports.net<http://www.gadps-eports.net>) and by referencing the ORU# MEDI08695622. Or please mail a check or money order along with the attached invoice to:

Georgia Department of Public Safety
Attention: Open Records Manager
PO Box 1456
Atlanta, GA 30371

Please make sure to reference your check with ORU # MEDI08695622.

Thank you,

Nkenge Green
Attorney Manager, Open Records Unit
Legal Services Division
Georgia Department of Public Safety
959 United Avenue SE
Atlanta, Georgia 30316
Phone: 404-624-7591
Fax: 404-624-7788
ngreen@gsp.net<mailto:ngreen@gsp.net>

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https://eports.gamccd.net/orportal

Good morning,

Payment has been received, thank you for your patience and for following up.

Warm regards,

Nkenge Green