Chief FOIA officer's recent email (Centers for Disease Control and Prevention)

Dear Centers for Disease Control and Prevention,

On behalf of myself and Fiat Fiendum, I hereby request the following records:

1. The one email in your chief FOIA officer's email inbox or equivalent which was received nearest and before October 19, 2024, midnight Eastern time, regardless of subject matter.
2. The one email in your chief FOIA officer's email spam folder or equivalent which was received nearest and before October 19, 2024, midnight Eastern time, regardless of subject matter.
3. The one email in your chief FOIA officer's sent email folder or equivalent which was sent nearest and before October 19, 2024, midnight Eastern time, regardless of subject matter.
4. The total full-time equivalent count of people who work for your FOIA office as of October 19, 2024.

This request is expressly limited to Centers for Disease Control and Prevention's own FOIA office. Please do not refer it to any other agency or division. This request is expressly not a Privacy Act request, and no PA waiver will be provided.

Please provide the email records in EML, Maildir, MBOX, MIX, MSG, or PST format only — not PDF, Word, image, etc — including all metadata (e.g. full email headers as received/sent) and attachments, without alteration other than narrowly tailored electronic redaction of specifically claimed exemptions that do not affect any part of non exempt information (and, in particular, without rasterization).

Please provide the fourth record as a statement in your response letter, or at your option, as the most readily available record, in original electronic format as currently stored on your computer systems, which includes that information.

Please provide all records either as individual files, or as an unencrypted ZIP file, uploaded to MuckRock. Do not apply any encryption, DRM, or other restriction.

I request fee waiver, because
* Fiat Fiendum is a 501(c)(3) non-profit;
* this request is for public interest, non-commercial purposes;
* these records would give a snapshot of insight into the everyday processes of FOIA offices; and
* these records are being requested in order to conduct a government-wide audit of agencies' FOIA compliance.

In the event that you deny fee waiver, please process this request as-is, because I will not agree to any fees.

Please be sure to provide:
* 5 USC 552(a)(6)(A)(i)(II) FOIA Public Liaison information
* 5 USC 552(a)(6)(A)(i)(III)(aa) appeal information
* 5 USC 552(a)(6)(A)(i)(III)(bb) OGIS information
* 5 USC 552(a)(7)(A) tracking number
* 5 USC 552(a)(7)(B)(ii) completion ETA

Thank you in advance for your anticipated cooperation in this matter. I look forward to receiving your response to this request within 20 business days, as the statute requires.

Sincerely,
Sai
President, Fiat Fiendum, Inc.

P.S. Sai is my full legal name.

Thank you for your email.

My name is just Sai. "P.S." means "post scriptum". Please update your records accordingly.

Sincerely,
Sai

Dear CDC,

Thank you for your email, and for your grant of news media fee waiver.

My name is just Sai. "P.S." means "post scriptum". My title is not "Mr.". Please use no title for me at all if you are able to do so, or "Mx" if your system forces you to enter a title. Please update your records accordingly.

You wrote on behalf of:
> The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and Agency for Toxic Substances and Disease Registry

My request was addressed only to the CDC.

Could you please clarify the relationship between the CDC and ATSDR, which one(s) have a chief FOIA officer, and which chief FOIA officer you will use as the subject of this request?

You wrote:
> We will require more than thirty working days to respond to your request because:
> • We reasonably expect to consult with two or more Centers/Institutes/Offices
> • We reasonably expect to consult with other federal agencies

I contest your claim. I requested 3 emails and a FTE number, held by your own chief FOIA officer. There is no separate office to search (much less multiple), and there is no need to consult another agency. I therefore believe you have no grounds for claiming unusual circumstances. If you claim otherwise, please be more specific as to what justifies your claim.

Sincerely,
Sai