Licensed officers and total employees
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| Submitted | Jan. 29, 2025 |
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From: Dillon Bergin
To Whom It May Concern:
Pursuant to the Virginia Freedom of Information Act, I hereby request the following records:
Any and all organized datasets containing the most recent information about the number of licensed officers and total employees per agency for every Virginia law enforcement agency, in a machine-readable database or spreadsheet format such as Excel, CSV, Access, SQL or JSON.
The data should include all fields in the database or spreadsheets that contain non-exempt information. I also request all documentation that describes the layout of the database’s tables and fields, and that provides the definitions of any field names, codes, and abbreviations used in the database. This information may be gathered together in a single document like a data dictionary, entity layout, or user's guide. If that is the case, I request access to and copy of said document.
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,
Tom Nash, a citizen of Virginia, in coordination with Dillon Bergin.
From: Virginia Department of Criminal Justice Services
Tom Nash,
This office is in receipt of your request for records made in accordance with the Virginia Freedom of Information Act (§2.2-3700 et seq.), which we received 1/29/2025. Please be advised that it is not possible to provide the requested records within the five working days required by FOIA because of the review process required for this request. Therefore, we are invoking subsection B 4 of §2.2-3704 to provide us with seven additional working days to respond to your request. The deadline to respond will be Friday, February 14, 2025.
Thank you,
Payne Tarkenton
FOIA Officer
Virginia Department of Criminal Justice Services
1100 Bank Street, Richmond, VA 23219
Phone 804-786-3051
www.dcjs.virginia.gov<http://www.dcjs.virginia.gov/>
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CONFIDENTIALITY NOTICE:
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From: Virginia Department of Criminal Justice Services
Mr. Nash,
DCJS has received your two recent FOIA requests dated January 29, 2025, (copied below) in which you are requesting: 1) The database of criminal justice agencies that sends data to the Criminal Justice Agency Directory lookup in a machine-readable database or spreadsheet format, and 2) Any and all organized datasets containing the most recent information about the number of licensed officers and total employees per agency for every Virginia law enforcement agency, in a machine-readable database or spreadsheet format.
In preparing the responses, DCJS identified that you have an outstanding balance associated with a FOIA dated March 5, 2024. According to DCJS records, DCJS notified you of the outstanding balance on March 12, 2024, and April 10, 2024. See attached emails.
Pursuant to Va. Code § 2.2-3704.I., before processing a request for records, a public body may require the requester to pay any amounts owed to the public body for previous requests for records that remain unpaid 30 days or more after billing. Please remit the outstanding balance of $60.00 to Please send a check or money order made payable to the Treasurer, Commonwealth of Virginia to cover the cost of fulfilling your request. Attach a copy of this letter to your payment and mail to:
The Department of Criminal Justice Services, Finance Department
1100 Bank Street, 12th Floor
Richmond, Virginia 23219
Once DCJS receives this outstanding balance, DCJS will continue processing your requests.
Please let me know if you have any questions.
Laureen Hyman
Assistant to the Director
Virginia Department of Criminal Justice Services
1100 Bank Street, Richmond, VA 23219
(804) 786-8718 Fax: (804) 786-0588
www.dcjs.virginia.gov<../../../ijr24809/Documents/www.dcjs.virginia.gov>
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The contents of this email message and any attachments are intended solely for the addressee(s) and may contain confidential and/or privileged information and may be legally protected from disclosure. If you are not the intended recipient of this message or their agent, or if this message has been addressed to you in error, please immediately alert the sender by reply email and then delete this message and any attachments. If you are not the intended recipient, you are hereby notified that any use, dissemination, copying, or storage of this message or its attachments is strictly prohibited.
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From: Dillon Bergin
Hi Laureen,
I replied in the email thread for the other request, but just wanted to drop a note here as well. A check for $60.00 will be sent out within the next couple of days to Treasurer, Commonwealth of Virginia, 1100 Bank Street, 12th Floor, Richmond, VA 23219.
Thanks for your help on this request!
From: Muckrock Staff
To Whom It May Concern:
I'm following up on the following Virginia Freedom of Information Act request, copied below, and originally submitted on Jan. 29, 2025. You had previously indicated that it would be completed on Feb. 14, 2025. I wanted to check on the status of my request, and to see if there was a new estimated completion date.
Thanks for your help, and let me know if further clarification is needed.
From: Virginia Department of Criminal Justice Services
Tom Nash,
This email is meant to serve as a response to your request for records made in accordance with the Virginia Freedom of Information Act (Virginia Code § 2.2-3700 et seq.), in which you requested datasets containing the most recent information about the number of licensed officers and total employees per agency for every Virginia law enforcement agency. DCJS received a deposit for an outstanding previous FOIA request from you and/or your organization on March 3, 2025, and processed this request beginning on that date.
Attached to this email, you will find an Excel spreadsheet that contains the number of certified officers and/or jailers at each law enforcement agency in the Commonwealth. However, please be aware that contrary to the language used in your FOIA request, Virginia does not license officers; Virginia only certifies officers. In addition, DCJS does not have information on the total employees of each Virginia law enforcement agency, only the certified law enforcement officers reported to DCJS by the individual agencies. Accordingly, pursuant to Va. Code § 2.2-3704.B(3) DCJS responds that no such records exist regarding the total employees of each Virginia law enforcement agency.
As you requested, this information has been provided "in a machine-readable database or spreadsheet format such as Excel..."
Thank you,
Payne Tarkenton
FOIA Officer
Virginia Department of Criminal Justice Services
1100 Bank Street, Richmond, VA 23219
Phone 804-786-3051
www.dcjs.virginia.gov<http://www.dcjs.virginia.gov/>
For up to date information, subscribe to "DCJS Updates": www.dcjs.virginia.gov/subscribe<http://www.dcjs.virginia.gov/subscribe>
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CONFIDENTIALITY NOTICE:
The contents of this email message and any attachments are intended solely for the addressee(s) and may contain confidential and/or privileged information and may be legally protected from disclosure. If you are not the intended recipient of this message or their agent, or if this message has been addressed to you in error, please immediately alert the sender by reply email and then delete this message and any attachments. If you are not the intended recipient, you are hereby notified that any use, dissemination, copying, or storage of this message or its attachments is strictly prohibited.
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FOIA Request - Number of Certified Officers Per Agency