How to Request a Police Report

How to request Incident Reports ("Police Reports") for Golden Gate National Recreation Area, Fort Point National Historic Site, Muir Woods National Monument, Alcatraz Island, or Presidio of San Francisco.

 

U.S. Park Ranger Visitor and Resource Protection SUV with Golden Gate Bridge in background.

NPS A. Van Vechten

Please use the correct form to request your "police report" from the Department of Interior's Law Enforcement Records Management System.

Download the appropriate form then sign, date, and return completed request:

• If you need a copy of your records use Request For Individual Access to Records (DI-4016).
• Use Consent for Disclosure of Records Protected Under the Privacy Act (DI-4017) if you are providing consent and authorizing the agency to disclose your records to another person or entity. This form may also be used if you are the parent consenting to and authorizing disclosure of the records of a minor or the legal guardian consenting to and authorizing disclosure of the records of an incompetent.

Please send the completed form(s) to [e-mail].

 

United States Park Police vehicles in front of Fort Point and the Golden Gate Bridge.

NPS J. Griess

Reports may be released as a “routine use” to any of the following entities or individuals, for the purpose of providing information on traffic accidents, personal injuries, or the loss or damage of property:

• Individuals involved in such incidents;

• Persons injured in such incidents;

• Owners of property damaged, lost, or stolen in such incidents; and/or

• These individuals’ duly verified insurance companies, personal representatives, administrators of estates, and/or attorneys.

 

NOTE: The release of information under these circumstances will only occur when it does not interfere with ongoing law enforcement proceedings, risk the health or safety of an individual, reveal the identity of an individual who has received an explicit assurance of confidentiality, or disclose protected or confidential law enforcement techniques and practices. Additionally, Social Security numbers and Tribal identification numbers will not be released unless they belong to the individual requester.

See INTERIOR/DOI-10, DOI Law Enforcement Records Management System (LE RMS) - 89 FR 1594 (January 10, 2024).

For other National Park Service information requests, please visit https://www.nps.gov/aboutus/foia/index.htm.

For Presidio Trust information requests, please visit https://presidio.gov/about/presidio-trust.