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Wayne County Sheriff's Office

No records Our request of Oct 19, 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 26, 2026 (business day 4, no extension): no responsive records, by the agency's statement, at no charge.

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

RequestWCSO-2026-10-16-L · text as sent
Sent2026-10-16; counted as received 2026-10-19
Response due2026-10-26
AnsweredNot applicable: the request was filed again after the agency's reply
Where it standsRefiled after the agency's reply; filed again on 2026-10-19. Our file is closed (refiled in the codebook)
RequestWCSO-2026-10-19-L · text as sent
Sent2026-10-19; counted as received 2026-10-20
Response due2026-10-27
Answered2026-10-26, 4 business days after receipt
Agency's determinationNo responsive records, by the agency's statement
FeeNone charged
Fee waiverNo fee charged
Paid$0.00
Where it standsNo records, by the agency's statement. Our file is closed (no_records 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.

DocumentRequestSentPages
Our request WCSO-2026-10-16-L, Part L (vendor agreements and payments), as filedWCSO-2026-10-16-L2026-10-161
Our reply to the Department Manager/FOIA Officer, October 19, 2026, 4:44 pm, on the thread of her email of 1:10 pm: thanks for the response; we will resubmit the request through the County's NextRequest portalWCSO-2026-10-16-L2026-10-191
Our request WCSO-2026-10-19-L, Part L (vendor agreements and payments), as filedWCSO-2026-10-19-L2026-10-192

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.

DocumentRequestReceivedPagesRedaction
Email from the Department Manager/FOIA Officer of the Wayne County Sheriff's Office, October 19, 2026, 1:10 pm: the Office has moved to a centralized online system and asks that all FOIA requests be submitted through the County's portal, waynecountymi.nextrequest.com; "We look forward to assisting you once your request has been formally submitted through this designated channel."
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WCSO-2026-10-16-L2026-10-191the office address lines, the signer's mailbox, the website line, the signature images and the confidentiality notice left out (the office line kept is the one printed on the Office's FOIA page); the portal address shown as displayed, without the County's link-protection wrapper; message text as received, rendered to PDF; our note at the top; document properties cleared
The County's records portal's confirmation, October 19, 2026, 4:45 pm: record request 26-3625 "has been submitted successfully" (the light request filed on the portal at the Sheriff's Office FOIA Officer's instruction)
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WCSO-2026-10-19-L2026-10-191none (message text as received, rendered to PDF; the email headers, the portal's header, the account links and its footer are left out; our note at the top)
The County's records portal's closure notice, October 26, 2026, 3:35 pm: record request 26-3625 "has been closed."; the portal's timeline entry of the same minute reads "Request closed", "No responsive records"
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WCSO-2026-10-19-L2026-10-261none (message text as received, rendered to PDF; the email headers, the portal's header, the request link and its footer are left out; our note at the top)
Email from a Procurement Specialist 2 of the Wayne County Management & Budget Procurement Division, October 26, 2026, 3:35 pm, on portal request 26-3625: "Attached is the Wayne County Department of Management and Budget - Procurement Division's response to your FOIA Request."; the letter is published separately
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WCSO-2026-10-19-L2026-10-261the sender's name and mailbox left out (a Procurement Specialist 2, by role); message text as received, rendered to PDF; our note at the top; document properties cleared
Letter from the Wayne County Management & Budget Procurement Division, dated October 22, 2026 and received October 26, 2026 by email, on portal request 26-3625 (two pages): the request received "on October 21, 2026 via email portal"; "Your request is denied."; "After a diligent search for the requested records, we have determined and certify the records do not exist within Wayne County Management & Budget-Procurement Division"; "If you can provide more specific information, your request will be reviewed to determine whether the desired records exist."; the right to appeal to the County Executive, stating the word appeal, or to sue; signed by the Division's FOIA Officer, the denial approved for the Office of Corporation Counsel
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WCSO-2026-10-19-L2026-10-262the requester's street, town and email lines under the addressee block blacked out, his name kept; the links deleted; the name on the Office of Corporation Counsel's e-signature line and the drawn signature over it blacked out (a staff member, by role; the date stamp kept); the FOIA Officer named with his signature; document properties cleared