This is now our third attempt at obtaining call for service data for 2020 from the Office of Emergency Management and Communications (OEMC). In the first attempt OEMC only provided us a few months worth of data. In our second attempt OEMC didn’t provide any location data. This includes where the call originated, the beat of each call, and the district of each call. this renders the data we received from OEMC as basically completely useless. So, here is our third attempt to get this data from OEMC. Because we are now entering 2022 we have added 2021 to our request. When OEMC fulfills this request we will have call for service data from mid 2010 through the end of 2021. Now, whether or not they actually fulfill this request remains to be scene. They have a history of forcing us to litigate for access.
FOIA Content
To: Office of Emergency Management and Communications
Re: Chicago Justice Project FOIA Request
In accordance with the Illinois Freedom of Information Act, 5 ILCS 140, I request that your office provide the following public records:
FOIA A
All call for police service data for the time frame of 1/1/20 -12/31/21 Please make sure to include all data fields listed in the attached document including but not limited to the following:
Cross Type Flag
Disperid
Descr
EntryPersid
Location- location of event
Location-deployment location
Location- callerlocation
LocHiCross
OnsDate *
Place Name
Radio
Segmentld
Text
UnitClass
UpdPersid
UpdWksName
Use
XCoord
YCoord
Vehicle
Ward
ZipCode
Disperid
Descr
EntryPersid
Location- location of event
Location-deployment location
Location- callerlocation
LocHiCross
OnsDate *
Place Name
Radio
Segmentld
Text
UnitClass
UpdPersid
UpdWksName
Use
XCoord
YCoord
Vehicle
Ward
ZipCode
District
Beat
For the fields of LocHouseNumber & CallerLocHouseNumber please reduce the addresses to the hundred block – so a address of 2004 w Roscoe would be reduced to 2000 W. Roscoe.
Failure to provide location data as was done in our last request will result in CJP seeking remedies in Cook County Circuit Court.
FOIA B
- Records sufficient to show Your efforts to locate and produce the records requested in FOIA A above. This should include:
- Where you searched for responsive Records and Documents.
- Who searched for responsive Records and Documents.
- Who was requested to produce responsive Records and Documents.
- The identify of any Records and Documents that were located but not produced for any reason.
DEFINITIONS
“Document” and/or “Documents” means any documents or electronically stored information of any kind—including writings, drawings, graphs, charts, photographs, sound recordings, images, and other data or data compilations—stored in any medium from which information can be obtained either directly or, if necessary, after translation by the responding party into a reasonably usable form.
“You” or “Your” means the {Public Body}, and all attorneys, employees, officers, directors, bureaus, offices, divisions or subdivisions of same.
INSTRUCTIONS
If the agency withholds any document or information pertinent to the requests made herein, please identify the document or information in as much detail as is possible, and detail in specific language why each document or piece of information is being withheld.
If any information requested herein is withheld on the basis of a claim of privilege or other protection as material prepared in anticipation of litigation or trial, then that claim shall be made expressly in a writing that describes the nature of the Documents, Communications, or Things not produced or disclosed in a manner that will enable us to assess the applicability of the privilege or protection. With regard to each claim of privilege or protection, the following information should be provided in the response or the objection:
(a) the type of Document, e.g., letter or memorandum;
(b) general subject matter of the Document;
(c) the date of the Document;
(d) such other information as is sufficient to identify the Document for a subpoena duces tecum, including, where appropriate, the
author, addressee, and any other recipient of the Document, and, where not apparent, the relationship of the author, addressee, and
any other recipient to each other; and
(e) the nature of the privilege or protection;
(f) if applicable, the litigation or trial of which he document was created in anticipation.
If any Document identified herein has been lost, discarded, or destroyed, each such Document should be identified as completely as possible, including as to each such Document, its date, general nature (e.g., letter, memorandum, telegram, telex, photograph, computer printout), subject matter, each author or originator, each person indicated as an addressee or copy recipient, and its former custodian(s). In addition, as to each such Document, the following information shall be supplied:
(a) date of disposal, loss, or destruction;
(b) manner of disposal, loss, or destruction;
(c) reason for disposal or destruction, or any explanation of loss;
(d) persons authorizing the disposal or destruction;
(e) persons having knowledge of the disposal, destruction, or loss; and
(f) persons who destroyed, lost, or disposed or the Document or Thing.
I look forward to hearing from you in writing within five working days, as required by the Act 5 ILCS 140(3). Please direct all questions or responses to this FOIA request to this email address by responding to this email. I can be reached at tsiska@chicagojustice.org
Tracy Siska