Request for more records relating to Prosecutor Case No 22002598
Erin made this OPRA request to Cumberland County Prosecutor's Office This request has been closed to new correspondence. Contact us if you think it should be reopened.
Dear Cumberland County Prosecutor's Office,
This is a request for public records made under OPRA and the common law right of access. I am not required to fill out an official form. Please acknowledge receipt of this message.
Records requested:
1)Evidence log of Jason Samaritano’s personal property relating to Prosecutor Case No.: 22002598
2)Bodycam footage of Detective Ronald Clouser during the February 1, 2024 interaction with State Police Detective David Foote as he returned evidence relating to Prosecutor Case No.: 22002598
3)Copy of the Cumberland County Prosecutor’s Office procedure relating to the packaging, storing, and logging of evidence in 2023 and 2024.
4)Copies of investigative reports regarding the cell phones of Jason Samaritano.
5)Emails to and From Monica Mosley relating to Jason Samaritano’s cell phone and missing SIM card from Jan 1, 2024 to February 17, 2024 including TO, FROM, SUBJECT, DATE, TIME, COPIED INDIVIDUALS AND ALL ATTACHMENTS
6)Emails to and From Lesley Snock relating to Jason Samaritano’s cell phone and missing SIM card from Jan 1, 2024 to February 17, 2024 including TO, FROM, SUBJECT, DATE, TIME, COPIED INDIVIDUALS AND ALL ATTACHMENTS
7)Emails to and From Ashley Cornwall relating to Jason Samaritano’s cell phone and missing SIM card from Jan 1, 2024 to February 17, 2024 including TO, FROM, SUBJECT, DATE, TIME, COPIED INDIVIDUALS AND ALL ATTACHMENTS
8)Emails to and From Pearl Downing relating to Jason Samaritano’s cell phone and missing SIM card from Jan 1, 2024 to February 17, 2024 including TO, FROM, SUBJECT, DATE, TIME, COPIED INDIVIDUALS AND ALL ATTACHMENTS
9)Emails to and From David Weber relating to Jason and/or ERIN SAMARITANO from December 12, 2022 to December 31, 2023 including TO, FROM, SUBJECT, DATE, TIME, COPIED INDIVIDUALS AND ALL ATTACHMENTS
Thank you for your time and you may send these responses to my email address that you have on file.
Yours Truly,
Erin
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Ms. Erin,
Please accept this email as confirmation of receipt of your below OPRA
request, dated February 17, 2024. As the provisions of the Open Public
Records Act provide for seven business days following the receipt of an
OPRA request in order to respond, you can expect to receive a response to
your request on or before Wednesday, February 28, 2024.
- Stephen C. Sayer
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Ms. Erin,
Please consider this email a request for clarification with regard to your
OPRA request dated February 17, 2024 (below). With regard to requests (5),
(6), (7) and (8) you have provided no search terms to utilize in order to
conduct an electronic search of this office's email records. With regard
to request (9), as well as your previous request for email records, I have
utilized your provided search terms of "Jason Samaritano" as well as "Erin
Samaritano". However, with regard to your current requests (5), (6), (7)
and (8), you have requested email records and described a subject matter
to which you want these emails to regard without naming any identifiable
search terms that can be utilized to perform such an electronic search
without requiring research not required of a Records Custodian.
Accordingly, this request for clarification is a request for search terms
that you wish to be utilized with requests (5), (6), (7) and (8) in order
to perform an electronic search of this office's email records.
- Stephen C. Sayer
Dear Stephen Sayer,
I thought that by stating "cell phone and SIM card of Jason Samaritano" that that would be enough. You can also add my name to the search as well. So possible search terms could be:
1) our names: Jason Samaritano and/or Erin Samaritano
2) Cell phone damage
3) SIM card missing
4) Missing cell phone
To enlighten you a bit, someone damaged one of the seized cell phone and took that cell phones SIM card and are now using it in another device. We can see that by searching through the phone using a new SIM card. The other cell phone that was seized went missing. Interestingly, I called that number in September and a woman answered stating that the office gave her the cell phone. Recently it was discovered that an Ocean County Assistant Prosecutor now has that phone number but we are not sure yet if she has the actual device. The device was 3 days old when State Police confiscated it without providing a receipt for either of the two cell phones.
I hope this helps. If you need anything further please don't hesitate to ask. I appreciate your time and patience.
Yours Truly,
Erin Samaritano
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Understood - thank you for the clarification. Your requested searches will be conducted utilizing your provided terms.
- Stephen C. Sayer
Dear Stephen Sayer,
Thank you Mr. Sayer. I truly do appreciate your time and patience.
Yours sincerely,
Erin
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Ms. Erin,
With regard to request (2) as articulated below, it is likely that file
size limitations will make sending you any responsive records to this
request via email impossible. Accordingly, I would ask that you please
provide a mailing address so that any responsive video records can be sent
to you via U.S. Mail on a CD.
- Stephen C. Sayer
Dear Stephen Sayer,
I will send you my address through your direct email. Unless there's a way to send me a link to the information. Either way is fine. As always, I appreciate your assistance.
Yours sincerely,
Erin
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Ms. Erin,
Please accept this email as notification that the State will require a
reasonable seven business day extension on the time frame for responding
to your OPRA request (below) dated February 17, 2024. Accordingly, you can
expect to receive a response to this OPRA request, along with all
responsive records, on or before Friday, March 8, 2024.
- Stephen C. Sayer
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Ms. Erin,
Please find attached to this email the response of the Cumberland County
Prosecutor's Office to your records request (below) dated February 17,
2024 along with all responsive records with the exception of Responsive
Record B.
Please note once again that with regard to this request, Responsive Record
B, which is a physical disc containing the body worn camera footage
responsive to your request, has been mailed to your provided address via
U.S. Mail due to file size limitations in this matter.
- Stephen C. Sayer