Thanks for the info, and hope it results in the full record being put out, although even going through the process and being able to document its failures is a big win for the civic sphere. And it seems Mayor Emanuel (from an outsider's perspective) is at a relatively high point of punch-bagginess after the alleged coverup of the Laquan McDonald shooting.
I was curious to see if your request (or anything to do with phone calls) was in the published FOIA log [0] by the mayor's office...maybe it is/isn't (I don't know who you are)...but it seems that they've been slow to update the log, with no new records since August 2015. Other FOIA logs, such as the 311 requests [1] (though not the police), seem to still be updated.
This kindle can't load socrata right, but that timeframe makes sense. After the initial request for the mayor's records directly, I did another to the FOIA officer to see if it was just the mayor without records.
I actually got the records by a request to their IT Dept for the mayor's office's VoIP logs. They ended up getting me info from the phone's billing system, but redacted. It took six months or so of waiting for AG to agree with my arguments to unredact the records.
Chicago's lawyer then swooped in and called a technical foul... since they don't use VoIP, so the request was invalidated.
A nearly identical request later (without "VoIP") and they sent me the exact same PDF as before along with a claim of unduly burdensome to discover if the numbers were releasable or not. So then we sued.
I was curious to see if your request (or anything to do with phone calls) was in the published FOIA log [0] by the mayor's office...maybe it is/isn't (I don't know who you are)...but it seems that they've been slow to update the log, with no new records since August 2015. Other FOIA logs, such as the 311 requests [1] (though not the police), seem to still be updated.
[0] https://data.cityofchicago.org/FOIA/FOIA-Request-Log-Office-...
[1] https://data.cityofchicago.org/FOIA/FOIA-Request-Log-311/j2p...