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FOI #24-057

Policies

Name: Lisa DiMascolo

Affiliation: Withheld.

Location: UConn Storrs

Request Date Start: Withheld.

Request Date End: Withheld.

Details: To achieve our research objectives, we are requesting access to written alcohol and sexual violence policies at over 600 institutions between 2018-2023, including the University Of Connecticut. Our study team will keep the names of participating institutions confidential. They will only be available to members of the study team, and identifying institution information will not be shared in any reports or publications. We will use these policies to analyze trends and developments in the higher education approach to these important issues.

Could you please provide us with PDFs of the following policies and documents that our research team could not find?
• Policy Against Discrimination, Harassment, and Related Interpersonal Violence from Jan 1st, 2018 - Dec 2018
• Procedures for Addressing Sexual Misconduct Involving a UConn Student Respondent prior to October 2021
To meet our deadlines, we would ask to receive these documents by Feb 26th. Please let us know if we can clarify any details about this request or if there are specific procedures we should follow to access this information.

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FOI #24-056

UCPD FOIA

Name: Greg Jones

Affiliation: Fazzano & Tomasiewicz, LLC

Location: UConn Storrs

Request Date Start: Withheld.

Request Date End: Withheld.

Details: Our firm represents Awilda Rodriguez. Please consider this a formal request under the Connecticut Freedom of Information Act, Conn. Gen. Stat. § 1-200 et seq., for the following documents regarding a polygraph examination conducted on or about January 12, 2018, of examinee Awilda Rodriguez:

1. A complete copy of the original, unedited electronic digital data generated by the computerized polygraph instrument.
2. All audio video recordings whether generated via the polygraph software or independent of the polygraph software.
3. All documents, physical and electronic, generated during the conduct of the polygraph examination, including but not limited to, consent forms, waiver of rights, biographical data collected from the subject, question lists, examiner notes, score sheets, computer reports, quality control reports, and polygraph reports.

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FOI #24-055 (02-12-24, 2:36 pm)

Baseball Staff's Contracts

Name: Brittney Lucero

Affiliation: Brittney Lucero

Location: UConn Storrs

Request Date Start: Withheld.

Request Date End: Withheld.

Details: Please consider this an open records request for Coach Jim Penders, Jeff Hourigan and Joshua MacDonald's current employment agreements with UConn. This request includes any amendments to the employment agreement.

Please do not hesitate to let me know if you need anything further from this end.

Thank you!

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FOI #24-053 (02-9-24, 7:36 pm)

Center for Judaic Studies and Contemporary Jewish Life department email correspondence

Name: Student Student

Affiliation: Daily Campus, Student

Location: UConn Storrs

Request Date Start: 10/06/2023

Request Date End: 12/10/2023

Details: Correspondence to and from all Center for Judaic Studies and Contemporary Jewish Life faculty and staff, including:
avinoam.patt@uconn.edu
stuart.miller@uconn.edu
frederick.roden@uconn.edu
amy.lawton@uconn.edu
kimberly.soby@uconn.edu
sierra.mccaffrey@uconn.edu
yonatan.miller@uconn.edu
sebastian.wogenstein@uconn.edu
philip.balma@uconn.edu
joel.blatt@uconn.edu
maha.darawsha@uconn.edu
daniel.hershenzon@uconn.edu
joscha.jelitzki@uconn.edu
angelica.gimenez_ravanelli@uconn.edu
sara.johnson@uconn.edu
charles.lansing@uconn.edu
grae.sibelman@uconn.edu
sarah.willen@uconn.edu
anat.markus@uconn.edu
"Amy Weiss"
fakhreddin.azimi@uconn.edu
anne.berthelot@uconn.edu
margaret.breen@uconn.edu
andrea.celli@uconn.edu
heather@uconn.edu
lewis.gordon@uconn.edu
gideon.hartman@uconn.edu
sherri.olson@uconn.edu
natalie.munro@uconn.edu
mark.velazquez@uconn.edu
jeremy.pressman@uconn.edu
daniel.silvermint@uconn.edu
richard.sosis@uconn.edu
michael.s.young@uconn.edu
jssidney@sidneyfamily.org
joy.land@uconn.edu
raphael.koenig@uconn.edu

containing any of the following terms between Oct. 6 2023 and Dec. 10 2023:
"Israel" / "Israeli"
"Hamas"
"Jihadist" / "Jihad"
"Islam" / "Islamist"
"Muslim" / "Moslem"
"Arab" / "Arabic"
"Palestine" / "Palestinian"
"SJP" / "Students for Justice in Palestine"
"Gaza" / "Gazan"

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FOI #24-052 (02-9-24, 7:36 pm)

President communications

Name: Student student

Affiliation: Daily Campus, Student

Location: UConn Storrs

Request Date Start: 06/01/2023

Request Date End: 02/09/2024

Details: Emails to and from Radenka Maric containing any of the following terms since June 1 2023:

"Israel" / "Israeli"
"Isreal" / "Isreali" (she spells it incorrectly)
"Palestine" / "Palestinian"
"Arab" / "Arabic"
"Muslim" / "Moslem"
"Islam" / "Islamic"
"Jew" / "Jewish"
"Judaism" / "Judaic"
"Abrahamic"
"Technion"
"Jerusalem"
"Tel Aviv"
"Ben Gurion"
"IDF" / "Israeli Defense Forces"
"Hamas"
"Hillel"
"Students Supporting Israel"
"Israel on Campus Coalition"
"Birthright"
"Israel Airlines"
"Raytheon"
"Collins Aerospace"
"Lockheed Martin"
"Sikorsky"
"Pratt and Whitney" / "Pratt & Whitney" / "Pratt"

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FOI #24-049

Purchase Orders

Name: Kimia Hamidi

Affiliation: AccessKit

Location: UConn Storrs

Request Date Start: 01/01/2020

Request Date End: 02/07/2024

Details: AccessKit is submitting a commercial Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) request to University of Connecticut for a spreadsheet of all purchase orders dated 2020-01-01 to present day.

Please include the following information for each purchase order:

• Purchase order number or equivalent
• Purchase date
• Vendor ID or equivalent
Vendor name
• Line item details
• Line item quantity
• Line item price
• Vendor address
• Name of contact person at vendor
• Vendor email address

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FOI #24-048 (02-5-24, 9:58 pm)

Athletics

Name: Dan Flynn

Affiliation: Hobbyist

Location: UConn Storrs

Request Date Start: 10/01/2022

Request Date End: 01/31/2024

Details: I would like a copy of Dan Hurley's, UConn Men's Basketball Head Coach, and Dave Benedict's, UConn Athletic Director, emails and, if available, text messages.

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FOI #24-047

UConn Basketball contract

Name: John Andrews

Affiliation: Withheld.

Location: UConn Storrs

Request Date Start: Withheld.

Request Date End: Withheld.

Details: I am doing research for a possible article on foreign tours/games for NCAA Division I basketball teams and am looking for an unredacted, digital/electronic copy (PDF is fine) of the:

1. The unredacted original contract;
2. Any associated documents related to the international game.

For the UCONN MBB team’s Maui Invitational 2024.

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FOI #24-046 (02-2-24, 3:23 pm)

Correspondence

Name: Ryan Bangham

Affiliation: Employee

Location: UConn Storrs

Request Date Start: 04/01/2023

Request Date End: 02/02/2024

Details: 1. All emails between Interim Chief HRO, Lakeesha Brown and Renee Boggis that have any mention of Ryan Bangham in them (Ryan, Ryan B., Bangham, etc.).
2. All text messages between Chief HRO, Lakeesha Brown and Renee Boggis that have any mention or reference to Ryan Bangham (Ryan, Ryan B., Bangham, etc.). I'm asking for text messages on cell phones where a university stipend is paid to the employee to have such cell phone or University-issued cell phone.
3. All progressive discipline issued from Lakeesha Brown, Chris Delello, or Renee Boggis for Ryan Bangham.
4. All supervisory notes kept by Lakeesha Brown and Renee Boggis for Ryan Bangham.
5. All chats via Teams between Lakeesha Brown and Renee Boggis that have any mention of Ryan Bangham in them (Ryan, Ryan B., Bangham, etc.)
5. Personnel file for Ryan Bangham, including all evaluations.

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FOI #24-045 (02-1-24, 1:51 pm)

UCPD Budget

Name: Katherine Revello

Affiliation: Journalist

Location: UConn Storrs

Request Date Start: 01/01/2021

Request Date End: 02/01/2024

Details: Budget documents for the UConn police department's operating budget, including line item expenditures where possible, for fiscal years 2021, 2022, and 2023.

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