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1. Google Chrome
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Block third-party cookies (can block ads and tracking cookies).
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FOI #19-423 (12-17-19, 5:53 pm) - Subject - Police Department Audit
Name - Christianna Silva
Affiliation - MTV News
Pursuant to the Connecticut Freedom of Information Act, I hereby request the following records:
• All records pertaining to the most recent audit of any weapons and equipment owned by the University of Connecticut Police Department (i.e., firearms, tasers, batons, protective gear, surveillance equipment, tactical and defense equipment, vehicles, etc.).
If no such records exist than I request the alternative records:
• All records pertaining to the weapons that may be carried by officers as determined by the University of Connecticut Police Department chief of police, or the University of Connecticut Police Department board, or officer having control of the University of Connecticut Police Department
• Any lists, databases, and inventory rosters containing weapons and equipment used by University of Connecticut Police Department officers (i.e., firearms, tasers, batons, protective gear, surveillance equipment, tactical and defense equipment, vehicles, etc.).
A list of weapons that are currently owned, duly authorized, and safely stored by the University of Connecticut Police Department is of great interest to the public in providing greater context for this public discourse.
FOI #19-422 (12-16-19, 2:46 pm) - Subject - UConn football contracts
Name - Dan Brechlin
Affiliation - Hartford Courant
I am requesting game contracts for UConn football games against in 2021 as follows: Fresno State, Purdue, UCF and in 2022: Central Connecticut, North Carolina State, Ball State, Boston College. Thank you
FOI #19-421 (12-16-19, 2:29 pm) - Subject - Football Game Contracts
Name - Kevin Kelley
Affiliation - BRI Solutions, LLC
All University of Connecticut football game contracts, amendments and/or cancellations for non-conference opponents for the 2020 season through the 2040 season (EXECUTED ON OR AFTER NOVEMBER 18, 2019).
Hope Redding
Foundation for Fair Contracting Of Connecticut, Inc.
Affiliation - Foundation for Fair Contracting Of Connecticut, Inc.
I am requesting certified payroll records submitted by the companies listed below, whenever applicable, for work being performed on the University Athletic District Development project, phase 2 referenced above.
• MT Ford Industries for Wk ending 7.27.19 through the present
• Schenectady Steel
• Shepard Steel
• Wayne J. Griffin Electric for Wk ending 7.28.19 through the present
Nicholas Duncan
Lyles School of Civil Engineering - Purdue University
FOI #19-419 - Subject - Maintenance work order data
Name - Nicholas Duncan
Affiliation - Lyles School of Civil Engineering - Purdue University
Within our data request, we are looking for the following variables for each individual work order.
o Unique Component ID
o Uniformat Classification
o Labor Type (Shop)
o WO Type/ Maintenance Type
o Priority
o Component Age
o Date Completed
o Labor Hours
o Material Costs
o Other Costs
• Are there other variables that you guys track that you believe are missing from this list?
Additionally, we are interested in the total annual maintenance budget and the gross square footage managed by your organization.
I would like to obtain a copy of each current contract between the University of Connecticut and a television network that governs the right to broadcast your school’s sports games on that network. Television networks may include, but are not limited to, ESPN, Fox, CBS, NBC, ABC, American Athletic Conference Digital Network or any local affiliate of these networks.
Additionally, if one or more of the current contracts to broadcast University of Connecticut’s sports games is between the American Athletic Conference (AAC) and a television network, please provide a copy of that/those contract(s) as well.
Under the Freedom of Information Act ("FOIA") (C.G.S. § 1-200, et seq.), I write to request a copy of any documentation of visits by UCONN recruiters to high schools to talk to students, including any details of which schools on what dates in what settings, since June 1, 2018
Please note that I am seeking anonymized records with this request in compliance with the Federal Education Rights and Privacy Act ("FERPA"), which requires school districts to withhold "education records," defined as files that "contain information directly related to a student" that are "maintained by an educational agency" (20 U.S.C. § 1232g(a)(4)(A).
FOI #19-415 (12-11-19, 9:40 am) - Subject - Research, Entrepreneurship and Innovation Committee
Name - Liz Teitz
Affiliation - Hearst Connecticut
I am requesting the draft plan (or plans) concerning technology transfer, faculty hiring, Academic Entrepreneurship initiative and entrepreneurship space, as discussed in the REI Committee Special Meeting on 12/11/19.
FOI #19-413 (12-10-19, 12:06 pm) - Subject - Guidelines for CLAS policy on administrative salary for Associate Directors of Cultural Centers and related communications
Name - David Amdur
Affiliation - UConn-AAUP
I am requesting a copy of the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences policy from the Spring 2019 Semester put in place by former interim Dean Glasberg which provided that the Associate Directors of cultural institutes in CLAS (El Instituto, Women's Gender and Sexuality Studies, Africana Studies, and Asian/Asian-American Studies) would a receive one course teaching release per academic year instead of receiving an administrative supplement to their salary AKA "a 10th month of salary". I am also requesting information on how this policy was developed. This includes all email communication between Davita Glasberg, Cathy Schlund-Vials, Michelle Cahill, Kane Lynch, Deborah Shelby, Juli Wade, Kelly Bannister, and employees in the Provost's Office, Labor Relations, Human Resources, and Payroll between Sept 1, 2018 to December 7, 2019 related to this topic. I am also requesting any and all emails related to this policy. Finally I am requesting how this new CLAS policy was distributed and publicized to CLAS faculty, academic departments, and cultural centers, including emails