Carmody Forensics Agreements - Immediate Disclosure Request (SF City Attorney)

twitter.com/journo_anon Public Records Requester filed this request with the San Francisco City Attorney of San Francisco, CA.

It is a clone of this request.

Due Jan. 6, 2020
Est. Completion None
Status
Awaiting Response

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From: twitter.com/journo_anon Public Records Requester

RE: Carmody Forensics Agreements - Immediate Disclosure Request

To Whom It May Concern:

Attached is an Immediate Disclosure Request (SF Admin Code 67.25(a)).
Your response is required by Dec. 30, 2019. Rolling records responses are requested (67.25(d)).

NOTE: Please be certain you have properly redacted all of your responses. Once you send them to us, there is no going back. The email address sending this request is a publicly- viewable mailbox. All of your responses (including all responsive records) may be instantly and automatically available to the public online via the MuckRock.com FOIA service used to issue this request (though the requester is an anonymous user, not a representative of MuckRock). Nothing herein is legal, IT, or professional advice of any kind. The author disclaims all warranties, express or implied, including but not limited to all warranties of merchantability or fitness. In no event shall the author be liable for any special, direct, indirect, consequential, or any other damages whatsoever. The digital signature, if any, in this email is not an indication of a binding agreement or offer; it merely authenticates the sender. Please do not include any confidential information, as I intend that these communications with the City all be disclosable public records.

Sincerely,

Anonymous

From: San Francisco City Attorney

Dear requester,

I am writing on behalf of the City Attorney's Office in response to your below request. As to requests 1, 4, and 5, unfortunately our office has no responsive records. As to requests 2 and 3, we withheld some responsive records that are exempt from disclosure under attorney-client privilege (Cal. Gov't Code § 6276.04; Cal. Evid. Code § 954).

Please send replies to cityattorney@sfcityatty.org<mailto:cityattorney@sfcityatty.org>
Sincerely,

[cid:image003.jpg@01D5BF2B.D57DAD60]Elizabeth A. Coolbrith
Paralegal
Office of City Attorney Dennis Herrera
(415) 554-4685 Direct
www.sfcityattorney.org
Find us on: Facebook<https://www.facebook.com/sfcityattorney/> Twitter<https://twitter.com/SFCityAttorney> Instagram<https://www.instagram.com/sfcityattorney/>

From: twitter.com/journo_anon Public Records Requester

Thank you.

In order to determine whether we will appeal or not, we are separating out requests 2 and 3 as follows into two halves. This is a new immediate disclosure request.

2a. all MOUs and contracts/agreements
that are or were in effect, dated, sent, or received at any time between May 1, 2019 and
present where at least one party or signatory is the Regional Computer Forensics
Laboratory or Silicon Valley Regional Computer Forensics Laboratory or any of
its/their employees, agents, or officers (you must provide responsive records
regardless of whether your agency is or is not a party if your agency prepared, owned,
retained, or used the record)
3a. all MOUs and contracts/agreements
that are or were in effect, dated, sent, or received at any time between May 1, 2019 and
present that mention in any way Regional Computer Forensics Laboratory, RCFL,
Silicon Valley Regional Computer Forensics Laboratory, or SVRCFL (you must
provide responsive records regardless of whether your agency is or is not a party if your
agency prepared, owned, retained, or used the record)

2b. all contract correspondence, and contract payment records
that are or were in effect, dated, sent, or received at any time between May 1, 2019 and
present where at least one party or signatory is the Regional Computer Forensics
Laboratory or Silicon Valley Regional Computer Forensics Laboratory or any of
its/their employees, agents, or officers (you must provide responsive records
regardless of whether your agency is or is not a party if your agency prepared, owned,
retained, or used the record)
3b. all contract correspondence and contract payment records
that are or were in effect, dated, sent, or received at any time between May 1, 2019 and
present that mention in any way Regional Computer Forensics Laboratory, RCFL,
Silicon Valley Regional Computer Forensics Laboratory, or SVRCFL (you must
provide responsive records regardless of whether your agency is or is not a party if your
agency prepared, owned, retained, or used the record)

From: San Francisco City Attorney

Dear requester,

Unfortunately we cannot divulge whether or not we have received documents responsive to your requests from our clients as part of an attorney-client communication, as doing would itself violate the attorney-client privilege by disclosing the subject of any such communications. Putting aside any documents that would be privileged, we have no responsive documents. We understand you have already contacted SFPD and have received documents responsive to your request.

Please send replies to cityattorney@sfcityatty.org<mailto:cityattorney@sfcityatty.org>
Sincerely,

[cid:image002.jpg@01D5C189.DD3B29A0]Elizabeth A. Coolbrith
Paralegal
Office of City Attorney Dennis Herrera
(415) 554-4685 Direct
www.sfcityattorney.org
Find us on: Facebook<https://www.facebook.com/sfcityattorney/> Twitter<https://twitter.com/SFCityAttorney> Instagram<https://www.instagram.com/sfcityattorney/>

From: twitter.com/journo_anon Public Records Requester

This does not make sense. I have made 4 requests ,2a 2b 3a and 3b. I am entitled to know whether or not you have responsive records AND justifications for withholding for each of those 4 requests. By using the word "may" you aren't giving me a complete response.

We shall appeal.

Thanks.

From: twitter.com/journo_anon Public Records Requester

Sorry, corrected:

This does not make sense. I have made 4 requests ,2a 2b 3a and 3b. I am entitled to know whether or not you have responsive records AND justifications for withholding for each of those 4 requests. By not indicating whether or not you did indeed withhold records pursuant to privilege, you aren't giving me a complete response.

We shall appeal.

Thanks.

From: twitter.com/journo_anon Public Records Requester

Ignore the follow-up; complaints will be filed.

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