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Plymouth Township PD
Fee pending The agency answered PTP-2026-10-06-B on Oct 13, 2026 (business day 4, no extension): granted in part, denied in part, with a fee of $1,819.30, which is unpaid. The agency's notice of Oct 12, 2026 extended its time on PTP-2026-10-06-A to Oct 28, 2026.
The terms in the tables below are defined on the Requests page and in the codebook. The records an agency produces, and our analysis of them, are added after the agency has had seven days to review a draft. See Methods.
Requests and responses
| Request | PTP-2026-10-06-A · text as sent |
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| Sent | 2026-10-06; counted as received 2026-10-07 |
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| Response due | 2026-10-14; the agency's notice of 2026-10-12 extended it to 2026-10-28 |
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| Answered | Not yet |
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| Where it stands | Awaiting response. Our file is open (pending in the codebook) |
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| Request | PTP-2026-10-06-B · text as sent |
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| Sent | 2026-10-06; counted as received 2026-10-07 |
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| Response due | 2026-10-14 |
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| Answered | 2026-10-13, 4 business days after receipt |
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| Agency's determination | Granted in part, denied in part |
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| Fee | $1,819.30 first stated, with a $909.65 deposit |
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| Fee waiver | Not addressed in the response |
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| Paid | Not yet settled |
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| Where it stands | Fee or deposit unresolved. Our file is open (fee_pending in the codebook) |
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What we sent
Our requests, as filed, with contact details omitted. Where a request was filed through a NextRequest portal, its number links to its page there. Some portals show that page only to the requester and the agency.
| Document | Request | Sent | Pages |
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| Our request PTP-2026-10-06-A, Part A (documents), as filed | PTP-2026-10-06-A | 2026-10-06 | 3 |
| Our request PTP-2026-10-06-B, Part B (system exports), as filed | PTP-2026-10-06-B | 2026-10-06 | 2 |
| Our reply on the fee-estimate thread, October 13, 2026, 5:34 pm: asks that the license plate columns be removed entirely and the other columns, filters included, left intact; case numbers may be removed, though masked ("***") is preferred so that how many searches had one can be measured; the request, the responses and the correspondence will be published with personal contact details omitted, with the data and analysis results | PTP-2026-10-06-B | 2026-10-13 | 1 |
| Our reply to the Records Management Analyst, October 23, 2026, 9:26 am: thanks for the update | PTP-2026-10-06-A and -B | 2026-10-23 | 1 |
What the agency sent
The agency's letters, notices and forms on these requests that we have saved. Each file lists the request it belongs to, the date received, and the first 16 characters of its SHA-256 hash; the full hash is on the Documents page.
| Document | Request | Received | Pages | Redaction |
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Acknowledgment from the Township's FOIA Center, October 7, 2026, 10:56 am, on the documents request: "Your request was received in this office on 10/7/2026 and given the reference number W006212-100726 for tracking purposes."
87ada58a8237c114… | PTP-2026-10-06-A | 2026-10-07 | 1 | none (message text as received, rendered to PDF; the Township's copy of our request, the tracking link and the footer are left out; our note at the top) |
Acknowledgment from the Township's FOIA Center, October 7, 2026, 2:38 pm, on the exports request: "Your request was received in this office on 10/7/2026 and given the reference number W006214-100726 for tracking purposes."
38074864d6a11a71… | PTP-2026-10-06-B | 2026-10-07 | 1 | none (message text as received, rendered to PDF; the Township's copy of our request, the tracking link and the footer are left out; our note at the top) |
Extension notice from the Police Department's Records Management Analyst, sent through the Township's FOIA Center, October 12, 2026, 9:51 am, on the documents request (W006212-100726): "We are extending the date to respond to your FOIA request for no more than 10 business days, until October 28, 2026."; "The estimated time frame to provide records is by October 23, 2026. The time frame estimate is nonbinding upon the township, but the township is providing the estimate in good faith."
b7060b1658f5f6a7… | PTP-2026-10-06-A | 2026-10-12 | 1 | the requester's contact details, the Township's copy of our request text (published as filed) and the Records Management Analyst's name and direct email address left out; the Department's letterhead address, phone and fax and the analyst's title kept; message text as received, rendered to PDF; our note at the top; document properties cleared |
Email from the Police Department's Records Management Analyst, October 13, 2026, 4:16 pm, on the exports request (W006214-100726): the request "has generated a rather high estimated cost", item 1 (the search audit) being the most time-consuming, since "each search of the ALPR systems would need to be checked" under MCL 15.243(1)(b), cited as "MCL 15.243, Sec. 13(1)(b)"; the estimate "comes out to $1819.30", with a 50% deposit; or "we can mass redact the records under the above subsection", for a fee she anticipates "under $100"
aff3e9ad605d8ec4… | PTP-2026-10-06-B | 2026-10-13 | 1 | none (message text as received, rendered to PDF; the signer's name, the address, phone, fax and social-media lines of the signature block and the confidentiality notice are left out; the two inline images, a sample of the CSV file and a logo, are not reproduced; the fee estimate form is published separately; our note at the top) |
FOIA Fee Estimate of the Police Department, dated October 13, 2026, attached to the Records Management Analyst's email of 4:16 pm on the exports request (FOIA file number W006214-100726): one line, 230 units of "Time in 15-minute Increments" at $7.91, total $1,819.30; deposit $909.65; "This is only an estimate. Please only pay the deposit."
bc862606730f6d6e… | PTP-2026-10-06-B | 2026-10-13 | 1 | the Chief's named mailbox and office line in the letterhead blacked out (his name kept); document metadata removed; the form names the requester and carries none of his contact details; document properties cleared |
Email from the Records Management Analyst on the exports request, October 14, 2026, 8:56 am, answering our narrowing of October 13: the request will be passed to the Detective Bureau to check that the release "would not interfere with any investigations"; "For now, this FOIA is granted in part and denied in part"; the office is compiling the records and separating exempt from non-exempt information; the records are expected "by October 23, 2026", a time frame "non-binding but provided in good faith"
c5a166bd8e491f55… | PTP-2026-10-06-B | 2026-10-14 | 1 | none (message text as received, rendered to PDF; the signature block and the quoted thread are left out; our note at the top) |
Email from the Records Management Analyst, October 23, 2026, 8:49 am: records for two little-used license plate reader systems still being gathered; most records ready for Flock and Axon; everything hoped for by late the following week or early the week after, an estimate given in good faith
f87c9b2ee0ef1747… | PTP-2026-10-06-A and -B | 2026-10-23 | 1 | the Analyst's name, signature, office lines, confidentiality notice and the quoted thread left out (staff by role); message text as received, rendered to PDF; our note at the top; document properties cleared |