Correspondence regarding the Indian Child Welfare Act (ICWA) (Department of the Interior)
| Tracking # |
DOI-OS-2020-002552 |
| Multi Request | Correspondence regarding the Indian Child Welfare Act (ICWA) |
| Submitted | Sept. 11, 2020 |
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Communications
From: Amy Westervelt
To Whom It May Concern:
Pursuant to the Freedom of Information Act, I hereby request the following records:
>>> All email, text or chat messages in any form or application (E-mail, SMS, MMS, WhatsApp, WeChat, Signal, Instagram, Twitter, Facebook, Hangouts, Skype, Teams) sent to or from any staff member of the Goldwater Institute, timestamped between January 1, 2013 and August 1, 2020 (inclusive).
>>> All correspondence to or from Lori Alvino McGill, timestamped between January 1, 2013 and August 1, 2020 (inclusive).
>>> All correspondence to or from Lisa Blatt, timestamped between January 1, 2013 and August 1, 2020 (inclusive).
>>> All correspondence to or from Timothy Sandefur, timestamped between January 1, 2013 and August 1, 2020 (inclusive).
>>> All correspondence to or from Aditya Dynar, timestamped between January 1, 2013 and August 1, 2020 (inclusive).
>>> All correspondence to or from CATO Institute, timestamped between January 1, 2013 and August 1, 2020 (inclusive).
>>> All correspondence to or from Ilya Shapiro, timestamped between January 1, 2013 and August 1, 2020 (inclusive).
>>> All correspondence to or from Matthew McGill, timestamped between January 1, 2013 and August 1, 2020 (inclusive).
>>> All correspondence to or from Jennifer Brackeen, timestamped between January 1, 2013 and August 1, 2020 (inclusive).
>>> All correspondence to or from Chad Brackeen, timestamped between January 1, 2013 and August 1, 2020 (inclusive).
>>> All correspondence referencing the Indian Child Welfare Act or ICWA, timestamped between January 1, 2013 and August 1, 2020 (inclusive).
>>> All correspondence to or from the Citizens for Equal Rights Alliance, timestamped between January 1, 2013 and August 1, 2020 (inclusive).
>>> All correspondence to or from the Christian Alliance for Indian Child welfare, timestamped between January 1, 2013 and August 1, 2020 (inclusive).
>>> All correspondence to or from the Federalist Society, timestamped between January 1, 2013 and August 1, 2020 (inclusive).
>>> All correspondence to or from the State Attorney General offices of Texas, Ohio, Arizona or Louisiana timestamped between January 1, 2013 and August 1, 2020 (inclusive).
Please also include any group messages where multiple staff members are on the message. While the phone numbers are not needed, the following must be preserved: the timestamps, the textual content, attachments, and images, and also ALL sender and recipient names (including groups).
Please exclude any messages that are attorney work product.
Please provide a spreadsheet format or if you will use PDF, do not print and scan.
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 20 business days, as the statute requires.
Sincerely,
Amy Westervelt
From: Department of the Interior
This message is to confirm your request submission to the FOIAonline application: View Request. Request information is as follows: (https://www.foiaonline.gov/foiaonline/action/public/submissionDetails?trackingNumber=DOI-OS-2020-002552&type=request)
* Tracking Number: DOI-OS-2020-002552
* Requester Name: Amy Westervelt
* Date Submitted: 09/14/2020
* Request Status: Submitted
* Description:
See attachment.
From: Department of the Interior
Dear Ms. Westervelt,
The Office of the Secretary FOIA Office is reaching out regarding several FOIA requests that were submitted to our office on your behalf in September. We received DOI-OS-002552 on 9/14; DOI-OS-2020-005832 on 9/22; DOI-OS-2020-005857 and DOI-OS-2020-005859, on 9/23.
Our regulations require that your FOIA requests contain sufficient information for us to determine your proper fee category. See 43 C.F.R. § 2.38(a). Your requests do not fulfill this requirement because they do not indicate whether you are commercial, educational/non-commercial scientific, media or other type of requester as your interest in requested information will affect if any fees will be assessed. We therefore are unable to process your four requests at this time. If you wish to pursue your requests, please provide us with more information that will further explain your fee category.
Once the fee category is resolved, additional information is needed on the following requests:
For DOI-OS-2020-002552, the scope is unclear and additional information is needed. FOIA requires that requests describe the records sought with sufficient detail to allow an agency employee familiar with the subject area of the request to locate the records with a reasonable amount of effort. Your request does not adequately describe the records sought. Please provide more information, such who/which office you would like searched, where you would like us to search, etc.
For DOI-OS-2020-005832, there is no attachment, we are unable to identify the subject of your request.
You may contact our office by email at osfoia@ios.doi.gov,<mailto:osfoia@ios.doi.gov,> through FOIA Online, by phone at (202) 513-0765, by fax at (202) 219-2374, or by mail at U.S. Department of the Interior, 1849 C St, N.W., MS-7328 MIB, Washington, D.C. 20240. Email or FOIA Online is our preferred method at this time as our office is working remotely and employing social distancing protocols.
Thanks,
Cindy Sweeney
--
Department of the Interior
Office of the Secretary, FOIA Office
1849 C Street, NW, MS-7328
Washington, D.C. 20240
os_foia@ios.doi.gov
(202) 513-0765 - phone
(202) 219-2374 - fax
From: Amy Westervelt
Thank you!
I sent an email to the osfoia@ios.doi.gov account but didn't receive a confirmation, so following up here as well.
This request is on behalf of Critical Frequency and Drilled News, we are a nonprofit investigative journalism group so any information gathered would be presented to the public, and would not be part of a commercial endeavor.
I've included one, consolidated and narrowed request below. Please let me know if any further clarification is required.
>>> Email, text or chat messages in any form or application (E-mail, SMS, MMS, WhatsApp, WeChat, Signal, Instagram, Twitter, Facebook, Hangouts, Skype, Teams), timestamped between January 1, 2013 and Oct 1, 2020 (inclusive), to or from the following email addresses:
David.Hacker@oag.texas.gov
Ken.Paxton@oag.texas.gov
m.fiddler@adoptionattorneys.org
lpemberton@goldwaterinstitute.org
mbrownfield@goldwaterinstitute.org
dolsen@goldwaterinstitute.org
cbolick@goldwaterinstitute.org
tsandefur@goldwaterinstitute.org
jbentley@goldwaterinstitute.org
adynar@goldwaterinstitute.org
tgaziano@pacificlegal.org
tsandefur@pacificlegal.org
tboutrous@gibsondunn.com
mmcgill@gibsondunn.com
kaardal@mklaw.com
pclement@kirland.com
lblatt@wc.com
Kian.Hudson@atg.in.gov
MurrillE@ag.louisiana.gov
lmcgill@wilkinsonwalsh.com
<IShapiro@cato.org>
writeus@caicw.org
tom.gede@morganlewis.com
dave@daveyost.com
dailyotter@gmail.com
mbrnovich@azgaming.gov
mark.brnovich@azag.gov
And any communications referencing the following key terms:
ICWA
The Indian Child Welfare Act
The Brackeens
Adoption
Chad and Jennifer Brackeen
Equal Protection Clause
14th Amendment
Anti-commandeering
Please let me know if any further revision is needed.
Thanks again,
Amy
From: Department of the Interior
Dear Ms. Westervelt, Please find attached a combined acknowledgement, delay, and undue delay letter for FOIA Request DOI-OS-2020-002552 Thank you,
Emily Karp -- Department of the Interior
Office of the Secretary, FOIA Office
1849 C Street, NW, MS-7328
Washington, D.C. 20240
os_foia@ios.doi.gov
(202) 513-0765 – phone
(202) 219-2374 – fax
From: Muckrock Staff
To Whom It May Concern:
I wanted to follow up on the following Freedom of Information Act request, copied below, and originally submitted on Sept. 11, 2020. Please let me know when I can expect to receive a response. You had assigned it reference number #DOI-OS-2020-002552.
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 Freedom of Information Act request, copied below, and originally submitted on Sept. 11, 2020. Please let me know when I can expect to receive a response. You had assigned it reference number #DOI-OS-2020-002552.
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 Freedom of Information Act request, copied below, and originally submitted on Sept. 11, 2020. Please let me know when I can expect to receive a response. You had assigned it reference number #DOI-OS-2020-002552.
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 Freedom of Information Act request, copied below, and originally submitted on Sept. 11, 2020. Please let me know when I can expect to receive a response. You had assigned it reference number #DOI-OS-2020-002552.
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 Freedom of Information Act request, copied below, and originally submitted on Sept. 11, 2020. Please let me know when I can expect to receive a response. You had assigned it reference number #DOI-OS-2020-002552.
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 Freedom of Information Act request, copied below, and originally submitted on Sept. 11, 2020. Please let me know when I can expect to receive a response. You had assigned it reference number #DOI-OS-2020-002552.
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 Freedom of Information Act request, copied below, and originally submitted on Sept. 11, 2020. Please let me know when I can expect to receive a response. You had assigned it reference number #DOI-OS-2020-002552.
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 Freedom of Information Act request, copied below, and originally submitted on Sept. 11, 2020. Please let me know when I can expect to receive a response. You had assigned it reference number #DOI-OS-2020-002552.
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 Freedom of Information Act request, copied below, and originally submitted on Sept. 11, 2020. Please let me know when I can expect to receive a response. You had assigned it reference number #DOI-OS-2020-002552.
Thanks for your help, and let me know if further clarification is needed.
From: Department of the Interior
Good afternoon,
Please see the attached Interim response for DOI-OS-2020-002552.
Respectfully,
Paula Presley
Department of the Interior
Office of the Secretary, FOIA Office
1849 C Street, NW, MS-7328
Washington, D.C. 20240
os_foia@ios.doi.gov
From: Department of the Interior
Dear Amy Westervelt,
Please find attached the final response letter and records for DOI-OS-2020-002552
Respectfully,
Paula Presley
Department of the Interior
Office of the Secretary, FOIA Office
1849 C Street, NW, MS-7328
Washington, D.C. 20240
os_foia@ios.doi.gov<mailto:os_foia@ios.doi.gov>
