DHS Significant FOIA Activity April 2022
It is a clone of this request.
| Tracking # |
2023-HQFO-00316 |
| Submitted | Nov. 13, 2022 |
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From: Andrew Free
To Whom It May Concern:
Pursuant to the Freedom of Information Act, I hereby request the following records:
All reports of significant FOIA activity received from all DHS component FOIA office by the DHS Privacy Office in August, September, and October of 2022. The responsive records are required for each DHS component FOIA office by the 2/9/2005 Chief Privacy Officer memo.
We previously sought and obtained these records for April 2022. Please task a search mirroring that one.
Thank you,
Andrew Free
#DetentionKills Transparency Initiative
Al Otro Lado
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,
Andrew Free
From: Department of Homeland Security
Good Morning,Attached is our acknowledgment of your DHS FOIA request. If you need to contact this office again concerning your request, please provide the DHS reference number. This will enable us to quickly retrieve the information you are seeking and reduce our response time. This office can be reached at 866-431-0486. Regards,DHS Privacy OfficeDisclosure & FOIA ProgramSTOP 0655Department of Homeland Security245 Murray Drive, SWWashington, DC 20528-0655Telephone: 1-866-431-0486 or 202-343-1743 Fax: 202-343-4011Visit our FOIA website https://www.dhs.gov/foia
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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 Nov. 14, 2022. Please let me know when I can expect to receive a response. You had assigned it reference number #2023-HQFO-00316.
Thanks for your help, and let me know if further clarification is needed.
From: Department of Homeland Security
Good Morning,Attached is our acknowledgment of your DHS FOIA request. If you need to contact this office again concerning your request, please provide the DHS reference number. This will enable us to quickly retrieve the information you are seeking and reduce our response time. This office can be reached at 866-431-0486. Regards,DHS Privacy OfficeDisclosure & FOIA ProgramSTOP 0655Department of Homeland Security245 Murray Drive, SWWashington, DC 20528-0655Telephone: 1-866-431-0486 or 202-343-1743 Fax: 202-343-4011Visit our FOIA website https://www.dhs.gov/foia
This message (including any attachments) contains confidential information intended for a specific individual and purpose, and is protected by law. If you are not the intended recipient, you should delete this message and any disclosure, copying, or distribution
of this message, or the taking of any action based on it, by you is strictly prohibited.
Deloitte refers to a Deloitte member firm, one of its related entities, or Deloitte Touche Tohmatsu Limited ("DTTL"). Each Deloitte member firm is a separate legal entity and a member of DTTL. DTTL does not provide services to clients. Please see www.deloitte.com/about
to learn more.
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From: Andrew Free
This is the second acknowledgment you’ve provided. Neither contains a determination. Please make the determination required by FOIA.
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 Nov. 14, 2022. Please let me know when I can expect to receive a response. You had assigned it reference number #2023-HQFO-00316.
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 Nov. 14, 2022. Please let me know when I can expect to receive a response. You had assigned it reference number #2023-HQFO-00316.
Thanks for your help, and let me know if further clarification is needed.
From: Department of Homeland Security
"Good morning Mr. Free,
Thank you for reaching out to us. We appreciate your interest in these records and understand that knowing when you might be able receive a response to your request is helpful.
The program office tasked for records has provided us with potentially responsive records your request has been added to our processing queue. It is very difficult to provide an accurate estimated date of completion until our FOIA analyst reviews these records for responsiveness and we have a better sense of the number of pages and the sensitivity of the material. Our general expectation is that we will be able to send you a final response within 3-4 months.
Please know that this estimate may change dramatically based on the volume of work associated with our expedited COVID-19 requests that are in front of the queue and on the types of records we received from the Program office regarding your request.
Regardless of the specificity of your request, we cannot accurately estimate the amount of time it will take to process the record until we understand both the volume and sensitivity of the records.
We hope that this response provides additional insight into why we are not able to give you a more precise estimated date of completion, and why we expect it will take 3-4 months for us to respond to your request. Please let us know if you have any other questions about our processes."
From: Department of Homeland Security
Good Morning,
Attached is our response to your request. If you need to contact this office again concerning your request, please provide the DHS reference number. This will enable us to quickly retrieve the information you are seeking and reduce our response time. This office can be reached at 866-431-0486.
Regards,
DHS FOIA, Privacy Office
Department of Homeland Security
2707 Martin Luther King Jr. AVE SE
Mail Stop 0655
Washington, DC 20528-0655
E-mail: foia@hq.dhs.gov
Visit our FOIA website https://www.dhs.gov/foia
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