The desk clerk was a sturdy woman named Officer Miller.

She wore two pairs of plastic reading glasses on blue cords around her neck and typed with one finger on a gray keyboard.

“You’re requesting a public record intake confirmation?” Officer Miller asked.

Her voice was flat and steady.

“Yes,” I said.

“The notice has an administrative case reference at the bottom of the page.”

“Read the reference numbers to me,” she said.

“Four eight two one,” Evan said.