Hi, if anyone is interested in making a Freedom of Information request to a local/state/federal government agency, I have some surplus credits on
https://www.muckrock.com/ - a website which makes it pretty easy to send and track FOI requests online. Just email me off-list and I can submit a request for you.
Maybe could be useful for Oakland Wiki or other projects folks are working on?
Note, sometimes agencies refuse to send documents and you have to file a lawsuit (but hey, you might win a million dollars 10 years later), or they want to charge exorbitant fees for documents - e.g.
https://muckrock.s3.amazonaws.com/foia_files/Ltr_-_1-17-13.pdf - but sometimes you can get what you're looking for free of charge..
--mark B.