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Mr. Jan Lawrence Handzlik
Office of the Special Advisor
U.S. Department of Justice
Federal Bureau of Investigation
Washington, D. C. 20535
July 9, 1992
to the Board of Police Commissioners
City of Los Angeles
Suite 3425
601 S. Figueroa Street
Los Angeles, California 90017
RE: SPECIAL ADVISOR TO THE BOARD OF POLICE
COMMISSIONERS, LOS ANGELES, CALIFORNIA
REQUEST FOR INFORMATION AND INTERVIEWS
Dear Mr. Handzlik:
Reference is made to your letter to Special Agent (SA)
Thomas S. Ginter, Los Angeles, California Field Office of the
Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI), dated June 11, 1992; and
telephone conversations between Supervisory Special Agent (SSA)
Lucy · Ann Hoover of this office, Mr. Mark Beck of your office, and
you, on June 29, July 2, and July 6, 1992.
In your June 11th letter to SA Ginter, you requested
information concerning, inter alia, the FBI's general civil
disturbance contingency plan, Rodney King trial contingency
plans, and "issues relating to the response of the FBI to the
civil disturbance in April and May 1992."
On June 29, 1992, SSA Hoover explained to you that we
believed your request to be overly broad. Although we
understand, without elaboration, your interest in information
concerning any interaction or communication between the FBI and
Los Angeles Police Department (LAPD), you have not explained the
relevance of FBI plans and operations which did not involve the
LAPD.
On July 2, 1992, you and Mr. Beck placed a telephone
conference call to SSA Hoover and requested access to FBI
documents and employees during the week of July 6-10, 1992.
Within an hour of your inquiry, SSA Hoover telephoned Mr. Beck
and informed him, once again, that the request as set forth in
your June 11th letter was overly broad and that it would be
necessary to furnish a more narrowly focused written request.
Mr. Beck then inquired whether the FBI would authorize a request
to interview FBI employees on July 2nd if he were to facsimile a
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Mr. Jan Lawrence Handzlik
renewed request on that day. SSA Hoover responded that a
renewed, more narrowly focused written request would be favorably
received but that no promises could be made concerning authority
to interview FBI employees.
When your facsimile was not received by 4:00 p.m. on
July 2nd, SSA Hoover telephoned to inquire as to its status.
Neither you nor Mr. Beck were available. SSA Hoover's call was
no~ returned until July 6th. At that time, SSA Hoover explained
to Mr. Beck that we were still awaiting the renewed request. Mr.
Beck indicated that you would be preparing it.
It has since come to our attention that you attempted
to directly contact and interview a senior FBI employee, after
being informed that your initial request was overly broad and, in
effect, denied.
So there can be no misunderstanding, we wish to make it
clear that:
1. The request set forth in your June 11, 1992 letter
is denied as overly broad.
2. Any further contact with the FBI concerning this
matter should be made with FBI Headquarters, Legal Counsel
Division, Room 7338, Ninth Street & Pennsylvania Avenue, N.W.,
Washington, D.C., 20535, telephone (202) 324-4532 (SSA Lucy Ann
Hoover), Fax (202) 324-1040.
3. We remain ready to work with you to formulate a
more narrowly tailored request for information required for your
study.
We look forward to hearing from you and assisting with .
your study.
Sincert~
~ R. Davis
Assistant Director - Legal Counsel
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Special advisor to the board of police commissioners, Los Angeles, California request for information and interviews, 1992 July 9.

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Title Los Angeles Webster Commission records, 1931-1992

Description Chaired by former federal judge and FBI and CIA Director William H. Webster, the Los Angeles Webster Commission assessed law enforcement's performance in connection with the April, 1992 Los Angeles civil unrest. The collection consists of materials collected and studied by the Commission over the course of its investigation. Materials pertain to both the Los Angeles incident specifically, and civil disturbance, civil unrest control, and policing tactics in general.

Included in the collection are the following: interviews with LAPD officers, law enforcement personnel, government officials, community leaders, and activists; articles, broadcasts, and press releases covering the civil unrest; various tactical and contingency plans created for disasters and emergencies; reports, studies, and manuals about civil unrest control and prevention; literature about community-based policing strategies; emergency plans and procedures developed by other cities; and after-action reports issued once the civil unrest had subsided. Also featured are items related to the internal operations of the LAPD both before and during the civil unrest, including activity reports, meeting agendas and minutes, arrest data, annual reports, curricula and educational materials, and personnel rosters.

See also the finding aid (https://archives.usc.edu/repositories/3/resources/2266).

See also The Los Angeles Riots: The Independent and Webster Commissions Collections (https://scalar.usc.edu/works/the-los-angeles-riots-christopher-and-webster-commissions-collections/index).

Related collections in the USC Digital Library:

? Independent Commission on the Los Angeles Police Department, 1991 (see also the finding aid: https://archives.usc.edu/repositories/3/resources/2251)
? Richard M. Mosk Christopher Commission records, 1988-2011 (see also the finding aid: https://archives.usc.edu/repositories/3/resources/393)
? Kendall O. Price Los Angeles riots records, 1965-1967 (see also the finding aid: https://archives.usc.edu/repositories/3/resources/979)
? Watts riots records, 1965 (see also the finding aid: https://archives.usc.edu/repositories/3/resources/83)

Thanks to generous support from the National Endowment for the Humanities, the USC Libraries are digitizing this collection for online public access.

Coverage Temporal 1931/1992