MEMORANDUM
From: Michael J. Merritt, USN Retired/Writer
PO BOX 187
Newton, IA 50208
cipher.hunter@cipherphoenix.com
To: City of Newton, IA
101 W. 4th Street S.
Newton, IA 50208
(641) 792-2787
Subj: IOWA OPEN RECORDS REQUEST – CITY OF NEWTON, IA – #033
Enc: 1. Newton, IA Police Department Front Desk Computer (image)
2. Electronic Mail – Matthew Brick – Brick Gentry P.C. – 19 DEC 2022
1. Requested Information
(a.) Record(s) documenting the cost to the City of Newton, IA, for the purchase or license of the software the Newton, IA Police Department utilizes to document the receipt of fees collected from the public for requested records and other municipal fees as shown in Enclosure (1.).
(b.) Record(s) documenting the name of the software utilized to produce transaction receipts used by the Newton, IA Police Department to document the receipt of fees collected from the public for requested records and other municipal licenses and fees as shown in Enclosure (1.).
(c.) Record(s) documenting how the City of Newton, IA correctly tracks these financial records stored and preserved separately across the city’s 100 plus computers after the exhaustion of the thirty-day retention period of the City of Newton, IA’s mail server where City Attorney Brick has articulated they are initially stored and preserved.
Respectfully,
Michael J. Merritt, USN Retired/Writer
Founder: cipherphoenix.com
Creative Writer/Musician
Information Warfare Specialist
Information Systems Manager
PO BOX 187
Newton, IA 50208
cipher.hunter@cipherphoenix.com
City of Newton, IA Public Records Request Tracker
