Desoto, TX
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| Thu, 01/27/2011 |
Routed thank you letter to Brandi through research advisor. |
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| Thu, 01/28/2010 |
Asked Brandi to confirm to Lancaster that the request had been fulfilled. Brandi said she will give my email to her supervisor and let her contact the Lancaster court. |
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| Tue, 01/26/2010 |
Brandi re-emailed the data and asked for confirmation again. I confirmed that I received the data and asked for a copy of their consultant's invoice (for grant records purposes). Brandi quickly replied with the invoice. |
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| Mon, 01/25/2010 |
Brandi emailed me the data and asked for confirmation of receipt. |
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| Wed, 12/30/2009 |
Confirmed to Brandi that Jan. 15 is OK. |
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| Tue, 12/22/2009 |
Brandi Hodges advised that the "requested information will not be available until approx. January 15" due to planned system upgrades. Wanted confirmation this is OK before depositing my check. |
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| Fri, 12/11/2009 |
Got a call from Desoto city prosecutor Samantha Gowans that they are ready to fulfill my request and that they can deliver all fields. I am to call Veronica Chasten to get address. Called Veronica at 214-230-9679 to get address. $450 payment will be sent to: Municipal Court |
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| Fri, 12/11/2009 |
Check mailed. |
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| Wed, 10/28/2009 |
Asked Brandi to expand on her statement on confidentiality of open cases. I am unaware of any such general restriction. |
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| Tue, 10/27/2009 |
Wrote Brandi back assuring that I still want the data. Also asked, "Could I still receive the juvenile records but have them sanitized of personal information? This way they cannot be associated with the juvenile." Brandi wrote back confirming receipt of the request. |
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| Thu, 10/22/2009 |
Brandi wrote back. Key statement is: "I have gotten some information from our computer programmers and they have advised that the option for the computer database access is not available. This is after checking with the Municipal Court prosecutor who advised that the confidentiality of juveniles and open cases could cause a problem. The only way that they are telling me that, we can get you the information is by creating the computer program, which is the information that I have sent you before. Please let me know as soon as possible as we would like to get this situation taken care of." |
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| Tue, 10/13/2009 |
Asked Brandi to verify whether they can just dump the underlying SQL Server database. |
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| Mon, 10/12/2009 |
Brandi Hodges reported that they have to use an external contractor to fulfill the request and that the total cost is $450. The contractor says "we will have to create [Aren's] report as a custom program." |
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| Thu, 09/24/2009 |
Brandi Hodges called again:
She said it may be 1-2 more weeks; I assured her that before Thanksgiving is fine. |
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| Thu, 08/27/2009 |
Brandi Hodges called from 972-230-9674. She reviewed with a programmer and indicated the data export time may be so minimal that the open records costs will be minimal or zero. The programmer's vacation schedule prevents the request from being fulfilled for 2 weeks, but I indicated that is not a problem. I asked if she can provide a written estimate for grant purposes, and she said she will check with her supervisor Veronica Chasten. |
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| Tue, 08/25/2009 |
Call from Desoto (972-230-1361) to acknowledge and clarify request. |
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| Tue, 08/25/2009 |
Emailed back explaining I need electronic records. Explained that other cities have been able to electronically dump their data so easily that costs have often been zero. |
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| Wed, 08/19/2009 |
Got estimate of $435.90 for 2831 printed pages. |
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| Tue, 08/11/2009 |
Call from Brandi Hodges to discuss how they can fulfill the request. |
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| Sun, 08/02/2009 |
Emailed open records request to lhallmark@ci.desoto.tx.us. |
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