Minnesota Health Dept Bird Flu
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| Tracking # |
24-162 |
| Submitted | July 24, 2024 |
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Communications
From: Nathan Payne
To Whom It May Concern:
Pursuant to the Minnesota Government Data Practices Act, I hereby request the following records:
All written communications with any of the following terms “avian influenza,” “bird flu,” “H5,” “H5N1,” and/or “HPAI” in the subject line or text that were sent or received by Minnesota Department of Health employees between March 1, 2024 and date of production of records responsive to this request.
The requested documents will be made available to the general public, and this request is not being made for commercial purposes.
To aid in your determination of any fees related to this request, I am a journalist working for KFF Health News, a national nonprofit newsroom that covers health and health care in the United States and documents sought are of significant public interest. In the event that there are fees that exceed $100, please provide me a written cost estimate 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 10 business days.
Sincerely,
Nathan Payne
From: Minnesota Department of Health
Good afternoon,
This is to acknowledge receipt of your data request. It has been assigned ID#24-162. Your request will be forwarded to the relevant divisions or staff to determine whether the Minnesota Department of Health ("MDH") has data responsive to your request. We will be in touch once we know more to discuss next steps.
Future communications or inquiries about your request should be directed to Health.DataPracticesRequest@state.mn.us<mailto:Health.DataPracticesRequest@state.mn.us>.
From: Muckrock Staff
To Whom It May Concern:
I wanted to follow up on the following Minnesota Government Data Practices Act request, copied below, and originally submitted on July 24, 2024. Please let me know when I can expect to receive a response. You had assigned it reference number #24-162.
Thanks for your help, and let me know if further clarification is needed.
From: Nathan Payne
In an effort to help narrow and expedite this request, please amend it to include only responsive records from email addresses utilized by the following members of the Infectious Disease, Epidemiology, Prevention and Control Division: Kathy Como-Sabetti, Jessica Hancock, Emily Emerson, and Margo Roddy.
Thank you for your work to fulfill this request.
Best,
Nate Payne, Regional Editor
KFF Health News
From: Minnesota Department of Health
Hello Mr. Payne,
Your request is for public data. The 10-day statutory time limit only applies to requests from data subjects for data about themselves. As such, MDH is not statutorily obligated to respond to your request within 10 days.
Given the chosen keywords, you have made a request for a broad scope of data. The forensic pull for this request is a large amount of data. MDH has to review each piece of data to determine whether any of the responsive data are classified as not public so that the not public data can be redacted or withheld pursuant to law. As such, a significant amount of time and labor will be required to review and respond to you broad request. Given the volume of data, it will likely be a considerable amount of time to produce the response. If you are looking to receive the data more quickly, you can narrow the scope of your request. The narrower the scope, the less the volume of data to review. For example, identifying specific MDH employees whose correspondence you would like us to search, or providing more clarity or context about the subject matter of your request - for example, the correspondence containing the keywords that relate to a specific report, whether you only want the responsive data related to a specific action taken by MDH or related to a specific law that MDH carries out. If so, please let us know and it will assist us in responding to your request more quickly.
Thank you,
MDH Data Practices Team
From: Nathan Payne
Dear MDH Data Practices Team,
It appears your latest response may have been sent in error or may have crossed in transit with an amendment/narrowing of the request I sent this morning. The amendment should read as follows:
"In an effort to help narrow and expedite this request, please amend it to include only responsive records from email addresses utilized by the following members of the Infectious Disease, Epidemiology, Prevention and Control Division: Kathy Como-Sabetti, Jessica Hancock, Emily Emerson, and Margo Roddy."
I would assume narrowing the request to only those four staffers' email addresses should largely address concerns your note cited regarding labor and time to collect and provide records responsive to this request. Please let me know if you have any further questions or concerns.
Best,
Nate Payne, Regional Editor
KFF Health News
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From: Minnesota Department of Health
Good morning,
Thank you for providing more to the scope of your request, and we have added those emails to the search for the forensics pull. Please also note that it is not possible to have the timeframe be March 1, 2024, until the date of production. Our data practices team needs time to review the pull before production. Therefore, the timeframe of your request will be March 1, 2024 until the date of the forensics pull.
Thank you,
MDH Data Practices Team
From: Muckrock Staff
To Whom It May Concern:
I wanted to follow up on the following Minnesota Government Data Practices Act request, copied below, and originally submitted on July 24, 2024. Please let me know when I can expect to receive a response. You had assigned it reference number #24-162.
Thanks for your help, and let me know if further clarification is needed.
From: Muckrock Staff
To Whom It May Concern:
I wanted to follow up on the following Minnesota Government Data Practices Act request, copied below, and originally submitted on July 24, 2024. Please let me know when I can expect to receive a response. You had assigned it reference number #24-162.
Thanks for your help, and let me know if further clarification is needed.
From: Muckrock Staff
To Whom It May Concern:
I wanted to follow up on the following Minnesota Government Data Practices Act request, copied below, and originally submitted on July 24, 2024. Please let me know when I can expect to receive a response. You had assigned it reference number #24-162.
Thanks for your help, and let me know if further clarification is needed.
From: Muckrock Staff
To Whom It May Concern:
I wanted to follow up on the following Minnesota Government Data Practices Act request, copied below, and originally submitted on July 24, 2024. Please let me know when I can expect to receive a response. You had assigned it reference number #24-162.
Thanks for your help, and let me know if further clarification is needed.
From: Muckrock Staff
To Whom It May Concern:
I wanted to follow up on the following Minnesota Government Data Practices Act request, copied below, and originally submitted on July 24, 2024. Please let me know when I can expect to receive a response. You had assigned it reference number #24-162.
Thanks for your help, and let me know if further clarification is needed.
From: Muckrock Staff
To Whom It May Concern:
I wanted to follow up on the following Minnesota Government Data Practices Act request, copied below, and originally submitted on July 24, 2024. Please let me know when I can expect to receive a response. You had assigned it reference number #24-162.
Thanks for your help, and let me know if further clarification is needed.
From: Muckrock Staff
To Whom It May Concern:
I wanted to follow up on the following Minnesota Government Data Practices Act request, copied below, and originally submitted on July 24, 2024. Please let me know when I can expect to receive a response. You had assigned it reference number #24-162.
Thanks for your help, and let me know if further clarification is needed.
From: Minnesota Department of Health
Good afternoon,
This is regarding your data practices request to the Minnesota Department of Health ("MDH") assigned request ID#24-162. The data responsive to this request are now ready for you.
This dataset is too large to send as an attachment to an email. You may access the data by following the process below :
* You will receive an automated notification that you have been added to a workspace. Please follow the link to set-up an account needed to access the data MDH has that is responsive to your request. Your link will expire on 12/19/2024.
* A separate email will be sent from the MDH Data Practices account with the passcode needed to access the file and download the data.
Documents containing not public data have been redacted or withheld as required by the Minnesota Government Data Practices Act (Minn. Stat. Ch. 13). The statutory bases for redactions or withheld documents are identified by the stamps on the redactions and in the placeholders for documents withheld.
Please let us know if you have difficulty accessing the data.
Best Regards,
MDH Data Practices Team
From: Minnesota Department of Health
Passcode : 678688
From: Minnesota Department of Health
One or more files have been sent to you.
Visit the Workspace<https://filetransfer.mn.gov:443/anonymous/efdfb8b8-ab27-4f3a-9d8a-8ff4dc765f45/> to retrieve files.
You may be prompted to register an account if authentication is required.
This link will expire on 12/19/2024 9:35:00 PM
Hello - Please follow the instructions provided by MDH's data practices team to access your data responsive to request ID#24-162. Thanks!
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MDH_DPR24-162