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Summary: Request for records related documented gunshots. MPD’s decision was remanded, and MPD was ordered to allow the requester to pay for the cost of a report from the contractor or to receive the raw gunshot data from MPD.
Summary: Request for information related to an arrest. MPD’s decision to deny the request in part was upheld on the basis of personal privacy.
Summary: Appeals to MPD were dismissed due to lack of response from requester. The request for certain records was transferred from MPD to OUC.
Summary: Request for records related building permits and a stop work order. DCRA’s decision was affirmed in part and remanded in part, and DCRA was ordered to produce additional records.
Summary: Request for video from body worn cameras. MPD’s decision to withhold the video was upheld in part based on investigatory and privacy exemptions and the MPD’s lack of technical capacity to redact video. MPD’s decision was remanded in part to clarify one of its responses...
Summary: Request for records related to DC-Net consumer billing. OCTO agreed to provide additional records after the appeal was filed.
Summary: Request for records related to mental health counselor positions. DBH’s decision to make redactions to protect personal privacy was upheld.
Summary: The Executive Office of the Mayor lacks jurisdiction over FOIA requests to federal agencies.
Summary: Request for records pertaining to the investigation and prosecution of a 1994 murder. The investigatory records exemption was not found to be applicable as a blanket exemption, and MPD was order to search, review, and release non-exempt records.
Summary: Request for records related to an individual’s professional engineering license. DCRA claimed that the records it found were not responsive to the specific request. DCRA was order to provide the licensure certification.