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FOI #23-317 (07-3-23, 3:04 pm) - Subject - Text messages to and from Navigate 360
Name - Student Student
Affiliation - Student, Daily Campus
Text messages to and from university-issued cell phones in use by UCPD with Navigate 360 and its affiliated services, its employees, and automated text messages since 2017.
FOI #23-315 (07-3-23, 3:04 pm) - Subject - #SaveUConn graffiti maintenance and police reports
Name - Student Student
Affiliation - Student, Daily Campus
Maintenance reports, police reports, and administration correspondence regarding the numerous acts of vandalism associated with the #SaveUConn rally, including #SaveUConn graffiti in violation of posting rules on the graduate building, library, and student union.
Correspondence regarding the administration's decision to not remove the #SaveUConn graffiti.
Please return records responsive to the following requests to this email address via digital file no later than 08/15/2023.
1) emails sent to and from Tysen Kendig between the dates of 08/01/2021 and 12/31/2021 containing the search terms, “vaccine,” and/or “testing,” and/or “Covid,” and/or “mandate,” and/or “FDA.”
2) emails sent to and from Michael Kirk between the dates of 08/01/2021 and 12/31/2021 containing the search terms, “vaccine,” and/or “testing,” and/or “Covid,” and/or “mandate,” and/or “FDA.”
If, hypothetically, your search engine treats “or” as “and/or,” it should be abundantly obvious that you would enter my search terms with “or.” Since I am quite clearly using the same definition for “and/or” as literally every literate English speaker understands it.
FOI #23-312 - Subject - FOIA - underlying audit data
Name - Matt Rocheleau
Affiliation -
We're hoping to get some of the underlying data from the audit released yesterday. Not necessarily all of the data/analysis you all did but something with more detail than the report provides that summarizes the findings a bit for each of the troopers and constables you looked at.
See formal request below and let me know if any questions. Thanks!
Under the Connecticut Freedom of Information Act § 1-200 et seq., I am requesting copies of the following public records in electronic format, preferably Excel/spreadsheets if available:
• All underlying summary statistics that outline the underreported and overreported data from the CTRP3 audit report, which was released June 28, 2023.
FOI #23-311 (06-29-23, 2:57 pm) - Subject - Athletics documents
Name - Steve Berkowitz
Affiliation - USA Today
The term sheet, memorandum of understanding or contract covering men's basketball coach Dan Hurley's new employment terms, as announced by the university on June 21, 2023 at: https://uconnhuskies.com/news/2023/6/22/mens-basketball-uconn-mbb-coach-hurley-agree-on-new-6-year-contract.aspx
NBC Connecticut requests the opportunity to view and/or photograph and/or videotape, and/or photocopy any and all records related to:
• Any crashes/serious incidents involving a motor scooter/electric bike/moped on the Storrs campus from 2021 to the present
Eamon Coburn
UConn Storrs
Complete
FOI #23-309 - Subject -
Name - Eamon Coburn
Affiliation -
I am looking for records that would show the distribution of graduate assistantships held by degree year. So, for example, responsive records might have data/statistics showing that X% of graduate assistants are 1st-year PhD students, Y% are 3rd-year PhD students, Z% are 5th-year PhD students, etc. I am not looking for personally identifying information; I am looking for aggregate data or statistics, or documents/presentations/communications with these numbers.