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In review Our request of Oct 14, 2026 asked for every agreement with a license plate reader vendor in effect at any point, and every payment to such a vendor, since Jan 1, 2020. The agency answered it on Oct 20, 2026 (business day 3, no extension): granted, at no charge. It produced records. We are reading them; the records and our analysis are published here after the agency has had seven days with a draft (Methods).
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 | RCP-2026-10-14-L · text as sent |
|---|---|
| Sent | 2026-10-14; counted as received 2026-10-15 |
| Response due | 2026-10-22 |
| Answered | 2026-10-20, 3 business days after receipt |
| Agency's determination | Granted |
| Fee | None charged |
| Fee waiver | No fee charged |
| Paid | $0.00 |
| Where it stands | Records produced. Our file is open (produced in the codebook) |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Our request RCP-2026-10-14-L, Part L (vendor agreements and payments), as filed | RCP-2026-10-14-L | 2026-10-14 | 2 |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
Email from the Rochester Police Department's Senior Records Coordinator, October 20, 2026, 10:36 am, on our light request of October 14: "Here are the documents that I was given. If there's anything else you need please let me know."824a2dc227ce1bc0… | RCP-2026-10-14-L | 2026-10-20 | 1 | the signer's name left out (the Senior Records Coordinator, by role); the office address, phone, fax and mailbox lines left out; message text as received, rendered to PDF; our note at the top; document properties cleared |