Vineland Police Department and Chaplin Program
| Submitted | April 29, 2015 |
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From: Melissa Byrne
To Whom It May Concern:
Pursuant to Open Public Records Act ("OPRA"), I hereby request the following records:
I am including ten requests in this document. They are numbered with each request.
1. I would like a copy of the budget for the Police Chaplain program, list of all Police Chaplains, their guidelines for work, and their authorization for use of force.
2. I would like any and all emails and texts between Frank Ippolito and/or Anthony Fanucci, Paul Spinelli, John Procopio, Maritza Gonzalez, Angela Calakos, Ruben Bermudez, Edwin Alicia, Chief Timothy Codispoti, Thomas Ulrich, Rudy Beu, Chris Fulcher, and John Lauria from December 2014 through April 29th 2015 regarding "black lives matters" or "melissa byrne" or "walter hudson" or "jerame reid" or "ferguson" or "outside agitator" or "riots" or "phillip white" or "alissa allen" or anything regarding the chaplain program response to any of the deaths in police custody.
3 . I would like any and all emails and texts between Chief Timothy Codispoti and/ or Frank Ippolito, Anthony Fanucci, Paul Spinelli, John Procopio, Maritza Gonzalez, Angela Calakos, Ruben Bermudez, Edwin Alicia, Thomas Ulrich, Rudy Beu, Chris Fulcher, and John Lauria from December 2014 through April 29th 2015 regarding "black lives matters" or "melissa byrne" or "walter hudson" or "jerame reid" or "anonymous" or "ferguson" or "outside agitator" or "riots" or "phillip white" or "alissa allen" or anything regarding the chaplain program response to any of the deaths in police custody. This should also including planning memos for department response to death of Phillip White authored by the Chief, including his notes.
4. I request the use of force guidelines for less lethal force including tear gas for civil disturbance and unrest. This includes how much and what kind of tear gas, pepper pellets, and smoke bombs the Vineland police own. Who is in charge of making decisions for use of violence against protesters?
5. I would like the full list of all Vineland Police Department employees.
6. All documents relating to taking the Vineland Police Departments website offline and information on when it will be up again for the public.
7. I would like any and all emails and texts between Thomas Ulrich and/or Chief Timothy Codispoti, Frank Ippolito, Anthony Fanucci, Paul Spinelli, John Procopio, Maritza Gonzalez, Angela Calakos, Ruben Bermudez, Edwin Alicia, Thomas Ulrich, Rudy Beu, Chris Fulcher, and John Lauria from December 2014 through April 29th 2015 regarding "black lives matters" or "melissa byrne" or "walter hudson" or "jerame reid" or "anonymous" or "ferguson" or "outside agitator" or "riots" or "phillip white" or "alissa allen" or anything regarding the chaplain program response to any of the deaths in police custody. This should also including planning memos for department response to death of Phillip White authored by the Ulrich, including his notes.
8. I would like any and all emails and texts between John Lauria and/org Thomas Ulrich, Chief Timothy Codispoti, Frank Ippolito, Anthony Fanucci, Paul Spinelli, John Procopio, Maritza Gonzalez, Angela Calakos, Ruben Bermudez, Edwin Alicia, Thomas Ulrich, Rudy Beu, Chris Fulcher, and John Lauria from December 2014 through April 29th 2015 regarding "black lives matters" or "melissa byrne" or "walter hudson" or "jerame reid" or "anonymous" or "ferguson" or "outside agitator" or "riots" or "phillip white" or "alissa allen" or anything regarding the chaplain program response to any of the deaths in police custody. This should also including planning memos for department response to death of Phillip White authored by the Lauria, including his notes.
9. I would like any and all emails and texts between Chris Fulcher and/or John Lauria, Thomas Ulrich, Chief Timothy Codispoti, Frank Ippolito, Anthony Fanucci, Paul Spinelli, John Procopio, Maritza Gonzalez, Angela Calakos, Ruben Bermudez, Edwin Alicia, Thomas Ulrich, Rudy Beu, Chris Fulcher, and John Lauria from December 2014 through April 29th 2015 regarding "black lives matters" or "melissa byrne" or "walter hudson" or "jerame reid" or "anonymous" or "ferguson" or "outside agitator" or "riots" or "phillip white" or "alissa allen" or anything regarding the chaplain program response to any of the deaths in police custody. This should also including planning memos for department response to death of Phillip White authored by the Fuclher, including his notes.
10. I would like complaints for excessive force over the past five years and their resolution.
Thank you.
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In the event that fees cannot be waived, 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 7 business days, as the statute requires.
Sincerely,
Melissa Byrne
From: Petrosky Keith
Please review the attached partial response to your recent request.
From: Melissa Byrne
Thank you so much.
Can I amend #10 to ask for raw numbers without attaching any names? How many complaints of excessive forces over the last five years? How many were found valid? What are the department penalties for excessive force?
Thank you for your public service.
From: Fulcher Christopher
Responsive records, per the amended request below, are attached.
//CF
FW: Freedom of Information Request: Vineland Police Department and Chaplin Program
Thursday, May 07, 2015
12:32 PM
From: Petrosky Keith
Please review the attached response to your recent request.
From: Petrosky Keith
Please review the attached supplemental information.
From: Melissa Byrne
Sorry. Not seeing the attached documents.
From: Petrosky Keith
Here's this one again, too. Not certain why they are not appearing on your end, because they show that the transmission was sent with attachments on this end.
-KP
From: Darr W. Ed
Keith I have a list of emails for the "a" part of the request. Since all 5 of the requests are identical, except the first request does not want the search term "Anonymous", they are all on the same disk. I will give them to you Monday morning.
Mailboxes
Fanucci Anthony R; Spinelli Paul; Procopio John A; Gonzalez Maritza R; Calakos Angela; Bermudez Ruben; Alicea Edwin; Codispoti Timothy; Fulcher Christopher; Beu IV Rudolph; Lauria Jr John; Ulrich Thomas
Search Terms
"black lives matters", "Melissa byrne", "Walter Hudson", "jerame reid", "ferguson", "outside agitator", "riots", "phillip white", "alissa allen", "chaplain program response", "deaths in police custody", "anonymous"
Date Range
12/1/2014 to 4/29/2015
Thank you,
Ed Darr
Network Administrator
City of Vineland, IS Division
From: Petrosky Keith
Please review the attached transmission #1 response to your recent request. This is being sent in three (3) separate transmissions because of the volume.
From: Petrosky Keith
Transmission #2 of 3.
From: Petrosky Keith
Transmission #3 of 3.
From: Melissa Byrne
Thank. Is this in response to part a?
From: Petrosky Keith
Yes. This is what I refer to as your April 30 request “a.”
-KP
From: Petrosky Keith
Please review the attached response to your recent request. This is transmission #1 of 4.
From: Petrosky Keith
This is transmission #2 of 4.
From: Petrosky Keith
This is transmission #3 of 4.
From: Petrosky Keith
This is transmission #4 of 4.
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