Ring partnership, Parsippany
| Submitted | Aug. 30, 2019 |
| Est. Completion | Oct. 11, 2019 |
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From: Caroline Haskins
To Whom It May Concern:
Pursuant to the New Jersey Open Public Records Act, I hereby request the following records:
Public reports state that this police department has partnered with Ring, Amazon’s home security company. (https://blog.ring.com/2019/08/28/working-together-for-safer-neighborhoods-introducing-the-neighbors-active-law-enforcement-map/) These partnerships involve an exchange: Law enforcement gets access to Ring’s “Law Enforcement Neighborhoods Portal.” The Law Enforcement Neighborhood Portal is a way that police can request Ring camera footage from people that use Neighbors, Ring has a "neighborhood watch" app.
Therefore, I hereby request the following records:
1) All instructional materials, presentations and presentation materials (including recorded video and audio, PowerPoint files, prepared remarks, and slides formats), and other guidance on the use of Ring devices and/or the Neighbors app. This includes A) any notes taken during meetings that discussed the use of Ring devices and/or the Neighbors app, B) any explanations (whether internally or externally generated) of how Ring devices and/or the Neighbors app work, and C) any other document that has been used to help explain the use of Ring devices and/or the Neighbors app to any party, including internal documentation, public relations materials, and executive summaries.
2) A copy of any privacy impact assessments, use policies, standard operating procedures, data retention policies, legal opinions, warranties, non-disclosure agreements, contracts, liability waivers, insurance agreements, Requests for Proposals, Responses to Requests for Proposal, Memorandums of Understanding, Letters of Interest, usage policies, or informal agreements between the police department and Ring.
3) A copy of any funding opportunity announcements, grant applications and grantor status/progress reports, reports to legislative bodies, annual reports that mention Ring or the Neighbors app, as well as audit records, including but not limited to security audits of the software, misuse reports, and reports to oversight bodies.
4) Any digital communications including but not limited to emails and text messages) as well as documents, (including but not limited to PDF, word processing, excel, and slide documents) that mention Ring or the Neighbors app.
5) Any digital communications (including but not limited to emails and text messages) with Ring representatives.
Please try to include any other miscellaneous documents that facilitate this police department's relationship with Ring that don't neatly fall neatly into the above categories.
The requested documents will be made available to the general public, and this request is not being made for commercial purposes. It will be used in the course of reporting for Motherboard, VICE’s science and technology website (www.motherboard.vice.com).
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 7 business days, as the statute requires.
Sincerely,
Caroline Haskins
From: Parsippany-troy Hills Police Department
Good Morning,
I am attempting to process your OPRA request and have a few questions:
1. We have advertisement/spam emails that come in that have something to the effect of "enter your ring code" which has nothing to do with what you are looking for. In an effort to reduce the amount of junk emails that you have to sift through, can I omit these emails? There are over 2,000 junk emails with this that go to a secretary that has nothing to do with ring/neighbors app or us signing up or discussing us partnering with them.
2. Please provide a time frame. Right now I am defaulting to 1 year back. We only started to talk about Ring within the last few months and partnered with them in June of 2019.
Please give me a call if you have any questions. I work Tues-Friday 7:30 AM to 3:30 PM.
Sergeant Brian Conover #443
Public Information Officer
Support Services Division
Parsippany-Troy Hills Police Department
Office: 973-263-7012
Fax: 973-316-6830
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From: Caroline Haskins
Hi! 1. Yes, it's totally fine to omit those emails. 2. 1 year back is a good default timeline.
Thanks for following up.
Best,
Caroline
From: Parsippany-troy Hills Police Department
Good Afternoon,
We request an extension until September 30th so we can process all of the emails.
Sergeant Brian Conover #443
Public Information Officer
Support Services Division
Parsippany-Troy Hills Police Department
Office: 973-263-7012
Fax: 973-316-6830
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From: Parsippany-troy Hills Police Department
Good Afternoon,
Attached is a partial response:
Points 1,2, and 5 have been provided via a pdf file found at the below link. Any attachment to an email has been embedded into the PDF. Redactions made under the OPRA exemption NJSA 47:1A-1.1 subesection 11) Security measures and surveillance techniques which, if disclosed, would create a risk to the safety or persons, property, electronic data or software. Also, standard graphics ie. Company logos, email signature graphics and such, turned into question marks. If this is an issue please let me know and I will figure out how to reprocess with our IT staff through the email server.
Point 3- No Responsive records
Point 4- We are currently reviewing approx.. 50 other emails that may fall under an OPRA exemption.
Please follow the below link. The file will be available for download until October 15th :
https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1irzR_e-YZNepyFzm4_VSFZNodghMeSfa?usp=sharing
Sergeant Brian Conover #443
Public Information Officer
Support Services Division
Parsippany-Troy Hills Police Department
Office: 973-263-7012
Fax: 973-316-6830
[TU-55459_160]
From: Parsippany-troy Hills Police Department
Good Afternoon,
We require an extension until October 11th to finish processing this request.
If your request for access to a government record has been denied or unfilled within the seven (7) business days required by law, you have a right to challenge the decision by the [insert name of agency] to deny access. At your option, you may either institute a proceeding in the Superior Court of New Jersey or file a complaint with the Government Records Council (“GRC”) by completing the Denial of Access Complaint Form. You may contact the GRC by toll-free telephone at 866-850-0511, by mail at P.O. Box 819, Trenton, NJ, 08625, by e-mail at grc@dca.state.nj.us, or at their web site at www.state.nj.us/grc. The Council can also answer other questions about the law. All questions regarding complaints filed in Superior Court should be directed to the Court Clerk in your County.
Sergeant Brian Conover #443
Public Information Officer
Support Services Division
Parsippany-Troy Hills Police Department
Office: 973-263-7012
Fax: 973-316-6830
[TU-55459_160]
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From: Parsippany-troy Hills Police Department
Good Morning,
The final batch of emails previously mention have been reviewed and fall under the following exemptions:
* N.J.S.A. 47:1A-1.1 (1) Inter-agency or intra-agency advisory, consultative or deliberative material
* N.J.S.A. 47:1A-1.1 (4) Criminal investigatory records - records which are not required by law to be made,
maintained or kept on file that are held by a law enforcement agency which pertain to
any criminal investigation or related civil enforcement proceeding.
* Supporting cases
* Henderson v. NJ Dep’t of Law and Pub. Safety, Div. of Alcoholic Beverage Control
* Janeczko v. NJ Dep’t of Law and Pub. Safety, Div. of Criminal Justice
* N. Jersey Media Grp. v. Twp. of Lyndhurst
Please give me a call if you have any questions.
Sergeant Brian Conover #443
Public Information Officer
Support Services Division
Parsippany-Troy Hills Police Department
Office: 973-263-7012
Fax: 973-316-6830
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