Thin Blue Line Blue Lives Matter (Skokie Police Department)
| Tracking # |
695-2020 |
| Multi Request | Thin Blue Line Blue Lives Matter |
| Submitted | Oct. 22, 2020 |
| Due | Jan. 22, 2021 |
| Est. Completion | None |
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From: Northwestside Coalition
To Whom It May Concern:
Pursuant to the Illinois Freedom of Information Act., I hereby request the following records:
Any and all written records (including but not limited to hard-copy documents, memos, emails, word processor documents, PDF documents, PowerPoint files, etc.) created or written by members of the police department between January 1, 2020 and the date this request is processed (inclusive of those dates) which contain one or more of the following words, terms, or phrases (case-insensitive):
-"blue lives matter"
-"blue lives"
-"thin blue line"
-"police lives matter"
-"all lives matter"
-"black lives matter"
-"BLM"
-"TBL"
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,
Northwestside Coalition
From: Skokie Police Department
Good afternoon,
Thank you for submitting your FOIA request, Request Number: 695-2020. Following a search for the materials that you have requested, it has been determined that there are over 4,000 pages of documents that relate to your request. To provide this number of pages would be unduly burdensome to the Village as it would take a significant amount of time to read through and make any necessary redactions to each document, email, etc.
This is pursuant to the Illinois Freedom of Information Act Section 3(g):
“Requests calling for all records falling within a category shall be complied with unless compliance with the request would be unduly burdensome for the complying public body and there is no way to narrow the request and the burden on the public body outweighs the public interest in the information. Before invoking this exemption, the public body shall extend to the person making the request an opportunity to confer with it in an attempt to reduce the request to manageable proportions. If any public body responds to a categorical request by stating that compliance would unduly burden its operation and the conditions described above are met, it shall do so in writing, specifying the reasons why it would be unduly burdensome and the extent to which compliance will so burden the operations of the public body. Such a response shall be treated as a denial of the request for information.”
To reduce the burden of your request, the Village asks that you please narrow the scope of your request.
Do not hesitate to reach out if you have any questions.
Best,
Alex Franz
847/933-8219
alex.franz@skokie.org
From: Northwestside Coalition
Hello Alex, please see our amended request below:
Pursuant to the Illinois Freedom of Information Act., I hereby request the following records:
Any and all written records (including but not limited to hard-copy documents, memos, emails, word processor documents, PDF documents, PowerPoint files, etc.) created or written by members of the police department between *JUNE 1, 2020* and the date this request is processed (inclusive of those dates) which contain one or more of the following words, terms, or phrases (case-insensitive):
-"blue lives matter"
-"blue lives"
-"thin blue line"
-"police lives matter"
-"all lives matter"
-"black lives matter"
-"BLM"
-"TBL"
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,
Northwestside Coalition
From: Muckrock Staff
To Whom It May Concern:
I wanted to follow up on the following Illinois Freedom of Information Act. request, copied below, and originally submitted on Oct. 22, 2020. Please let me know when I can expect to receive a response. You had assigned it reference number #695-2020.
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 Illinois Freedom of Information Act. request, copied below, and originally submitted on Oct. 22, 2020. Please let me know when I can expect to receive a response. You had assigned it reference number #695-2020.
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 Illinois Freedom of Information Act. request, copied below, and originally submitted on Oct. 22, 2020. Please let me know when I can expect to receive a response. You had assigned it reference number #695-2020.
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 Illinois Freedom of Information Act. request, copied below, and originally submitted on Oct. 22, 2020. Please let me know when I can expect to receive a response. You had assigned it reference number #695-2020.
Thanks for your help, and let me know if further clarification is needed.
From: Skokie Police Department
Dear MUCK ROCK NEWS,
Thank you for narrowing your request. Unfortunately, even with your narrowed time frame, your request still totals over 2,000 pages. As a result, I am asking that you narrow your request even further due to the considerable amount of time that it would take to review and redacted each page. Please advise on how you would like to proceed.
Do not hesitate to reach out if you have any questions.
Best,
Alex Franz
847/933-8219
alex.franz@skokie.org
From: Northwestside Coalition
Hello Alex,
To reduce the burden of redaction please provide an excel spreadsheet with columns for: [date sent, to, from, CC, and subject fields] of emails created to/from any Skokie police email address between JUNE 1, 2020 and the date this request is processed (inclusive of those dates) which contain the phrase (case-insensitive) in the body of the email:
-"blue lives matter"
-"thin blue line"
-"black lives matter"
-"BLM"
-"TBL"
Thanks,
Northwestside Coalition
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