Dallas police took 375 days to respond to a records requests about record requests | Opinion
In November 2021, we called the Dallas Police Department to ask how many open records requests had been filed with the agency that year. We were told to file an open records request to get that information.That’s unacceptable. But it’s not just about this one request. Getting a prompt response to a public information request is a gamble at City Hall, too.
The number of requests filed with Dallas police has increased in the past three years. We know from a city presentation that the department received 31,281 requests between January 2020 and January 2021. Four-fifths of those requests were for incident, arrest and crash reports and 911 call sheets. In our case, DPD told us last November that it anticipated it would respond to our request within 20 business days.
Other requests we filed with DPD in 2022 did not take as long to process but still exceeded its anticipated 20-business-day window. For example, a Feb. 23 request for a list of businesses with dance hall licenses yielded records almost three months later.
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