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NPR2024-0070978 |
| Submitted | Dec. 17, 2024 |
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From: Marcus Boyd
To Whom It May Concern:
Pursuant to the Nevada Public Records Act, I hereby request the following records:
Please provide the agency's:
1. Complaint form
2. Policies/Procedures regarding complaints
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.
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,
Marcus Boyd
From: Las Vegas Metropolitan Police Department
Hello Marcus Boyd,
Public Record Request Title
Public Record Request - Marcus Boyd
Public Record Request #
NPR2024-0070978
Name of Requestor
Marcus Boyd
Status
Submitted
Request Submitted Date
12/18/2024 5:00 PM
Your Public Record Service Request has been successfully submitted. You will be notified by email if more information or payment is required and when your request is completed. The Las Vegas Metropolitan Police Department - Public Records Unit hours of operation are 8 a.m. to 5 p.m., Monday through Friday, excluding holidays, Juneteenth, Nevada Day, the day after Thanksgiving and December 24th. Any public record requests made outside of normal business hours will be deemed received the next business day. At any time, you may monitor the status of your request by logging into your Public Records portal account.
***Please note that holidays that fall on a Saturday or Sunday will be observed the preceding Friday or the following Monday. There are 13 holidays that LVMPD observes throughout the year. Based on this information, adjust your request accordingly.
Public Request Portal | Las Vegas Metropolitan Police Department (lvmpd.com)<https://www.lvmpd.com/i-want-to/file/public-request-portal>
Thank you,
Las Vegas Metropolitan Police Department
400 S. Martin L. King Boulevard
Las Vegas, Nevada 89106
702-828-7489
Monday-Friday 8am to 5pm
From: Las Vegas Metropolitan Police Department
December 19, 2024
Marcus Boyd
requests@muckrock.com
Re: Nevada Public Records Request NPR2024-0070978
Dear Marcus Boyd,
This correspondence is in response to your Nevada Public Records Act NPR2024-0070978.
You requested:
1. Complaint form
2. Policies/Procedures regarding complaints
In reference to number one (1) of your request, you can locate our employee complaint form online. We have included the link below:
* https://www.lvmpd.com/about/transparency/internal-affairs
In reference to number two (2) of your request please see attached as well as below.
The Public Records Unit forwarded your request to our Policy and Research Group and they determined the request, as worded is too broad. As currently requested, they are unable to confirm what documents are responsive.
Please note, you are seeking any/all records but have not sought a particular record about a particular event, and your request is otherwise overbroad and/or vague. As such, your request is not a request for a sufficiently identifiable record. The Las Vegas Metropolitan Police Department (LVMPD) is unable to conduct a simple “Google”-like search of its databases. We must ask that you narrow your request to a specific policy.
The Las Vegas Metropolitan Police Department (LVMPD) does not readily maintain any particular record containing the information you are seeking. Moreover, LVMPD databases cannot “readily compile the requested information.” See Public Employees Retirement System of Nevada v. Nevada Policy Research Inst., Inc., --- Nev. ---, 429 P.3d 280, 288 (2018), quoting Las Vegas Metro. Police Dep’t v. Blackjack Bonding, Inc., 131 Nev. 80, 87, 343 P.3d 608, 613 (2015). In other words, your request requires LVMPD to do more than simply “[s]earch[] an electronic database to produce existing records and data….” Public Employees Retirement System at 287, quoting ACLU of Arizona v. Arizona Dep’t of Child Safety, 377 P.3d 339, 346 (Ariz. Ct. App. 2016). Rather, your request requires LVMPD to “compile information about the information [the database] contains.” Id. (emphasis added). As such, your request requires the creation of a new record, which LVMPD has no duty to do under the Nevada Public Records Act. Public Employees Retirement System at 286.
In order to inspect or copy a public record, the specific record must be identified by the person requesting the record. Courts in addressing this issue have held that “agencies are required to disclose only ‘identifiable’ governmental records not otherwise exempt.” Hodai v. City of Tucson & Tucson Police Dep’t, 2014 Ariz. Super. LEXIS 2158, *18 (Ariz. Super. Ct. 2014), quoting MAG Entertainment, LLC v. Division of Alcohol Beverages Control, 868 A.2d 1067, 1076 (N.J. Sup. Ct., App. Div. 2005). “Wholesale requests for general information to be analyzed, collated and compiled by the responding government entity are not encompassed therein.” Id. A governmental agency is not required to respond to an overbroad request that does not request specific records. MAG Entertainment at 1074, citing Capitol Information Association v. Ann Arbor Police, 360 N.W.2d 262, 263 (1985); cf. NAC 239.863(1)(c) (public records request must include a description of the public record that is sufficient to identify the record).
If you obtain any additional information that may assist in our recovery of records you seek, a new request may be submitted. As a courtesy we are providing following policies, that may be responsive to your request. 2.225 Internal Affairs Bureau, 8.330 Maintenance of Values and Ethics & 8.355 Purging of disciplinary files (please see attachments).
Respectfully,
Public Records Unit
Las Vegas Metropolitan Police Department
400-A South Martin L. King Boulevard, Las Vegas, Nevada 89106
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From: Las Vegas Metropolitan Police Department
Hello Marcus Boyd,
Public Record Request Title
Public Record Request - Marcus Boyd
Public Record Request #
NPR2024-0070978
Name of Requestor
Marcus Boyd
Status
Complete
Request Submitted Date
12/18/2024 5:00 PM
Your Public Record Service Request has been completed. Please login to our Public Records portal at the link below to collect the records you’ve requested. Records will be available for 14 days. If you have requested Body Camera Video, you may be contacted with additional instructions for downloading.
Public Request Portal | Las Vegas Metropolitan Police Department (lvmpd.com)<https://www.lvmpd.com/i-want-to/file/public-request-portal>
Thank you,
Las Vegas Metropolitan Police Department
400 S. Martin L. King Boulevard
Las Vegas, Nevada 89106
702-828-7489
Monday-Friday 8am to 5pm