Citrus Heights Police Department
6315 Fountain Square Drive Citrus Heights, CA 95621 (916) 727-5500

 

Ronald A. Lawrence, Chief of Police

July 10, 2018

Dave Maass

MuckRock News

411A Highland Ave
Somerville, MA 02144-2516

Reference: Public Records Act Request: ALPR Data Research Request

Mr. Maass,

On behalf of the City of Citrus Heights, I am responding to your June 5, 2018 request for
documents regarding City records pursuant to the Public Records Act. Your request was
received by the City on June 5, 2018. The City will make available those documents which
respond to your request which are not otherwise privileged by applicable law, including the
Public Records Act.

Under California public records law, a public agency has no duty to create records in response
to a Public Records Act request. Rather, a public agency is required to make available for
inspection and to make copies, available upon payment of the direct cost of duplication, of
reasonably identified, non-exempt records and portions of records in the agency?s possession
(see California Government Code Section 6253). You have requested for the department to do
research and create eight ALPR data reports. The Citrus Heights Police Department does not
create nor maintain these types of reports, therefore we are unable to produce copies of these
documents.

in your attached request, you provided information on where to look to create these reports. If
you would like the department to do the research to collect the data, we charge a fee of $30.00
per hour for data research and compilation. We can only estimate at this time that creating
these eight reports will take approximately 30 minutes to 1 hour to research and create the
items you have requested for the aggregate numbers. I have created the additional reports you
requested. The time of creation was 15 minutes. There will be no charge for this initial research,
however should you require additional ongoing reports, there will be a fee charged of $7.50.

The aggregate number of ?detections? for 2016: 3,160,544
The aggregate number of "detections" during 2017: 7,306,453
The aggregate number of "hits" for 2016: 1426

The aggregate number of ?hits" during 2017: 3053



Should you have any further questions, please feel free to contact me at your earliest
convenience at (916) 727-5500.

 

CHPD Mission: To safeguard the people we serve and enhance quality of life by impacting crime with skilled
policing professionals and community partnerships.

 

July 12, 2018
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S'ncerely,



ISandy Margviov
Support Services Manager