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Thank you for your response and the helpful links. I would like to clarify that I am not looking for sensitive or identifying information and hope to attain information simply regarding the facts and statistics I had mentioned.
As a reminder, here is what I'm looking for:
Number of sexual assault complaints made
Number of arrests made
Location/date/time of each assault
Are victims UConn students?
Are assailant UConn students?
Case disposition (convicted? dismissed?)
Any/all statistics regarding sexual assault (including off campus parties, housing, and events)
FOI #25-495 - Subject - Graduate School Timely Topic series
Name - Michael Gyetvan
Affiliation -
In accordance with the Freedom of Information Act, Conn. Gen. Stat. §§ 1-200 et seq., I request digital copies of the following records:
All documents, communications (including attachments), caption files and transcripts, audio, video, and screen capture recordings, meeting materials, reports, minutes, agendas, and attendance lists/sheets involving or referencing any of UConn’s The Graduate School Timely Topic series, including but not limited to the following: (96)
FOI #25-493 (11-14-25, 9:30 am) - Subject - Purchasing Records
Name - Misty Ruhlman
Affiliation - SmartProcure
SmartProcure is submitting a public records request to the University of Connecticut for any and all purchasing records from 6/5/2025 to current. The request is limited to readily available records without physically copying, scanning, or printing paper documents. Any editable electronic document is acceptable.
The specific information requested from your record-keeping system is:
1. Purchase order number. If purchase orders are not used a comparable substitute is acceptable, i.e., invoice, encumbrance, or check number
2. Purchase date
3. Line item details (Detailed description of the purchase)
4. Line item quantity
5. Line item price
6. Vendor ID number, name, address, contact person and their email address
FOI #25-491 (11-13-25, 11:44 am) - Subject - Symposium Records
Name - Leslie Wolfgang
Affiliation - Family Institute of Connecticut
I am requesting a digital transcript or recording of the "Are Parental Rights Always in the Best Interest of Children" Symposium speakers that took place on March 31, 2023 at UConn Law School, 55 Elizabeth St., Hartford.
FOI #25-490 (11-13-25, 11:44 am) - Subject - Football Contract Amendment
Name - Kevin Kelley
Affiliation - BRI Solutions, LLC
Any new amendments to the contract with Old Dominion University for football games in 2026 and 2027 (original contract dated April 8, 2022; first amendment dated Jan. 17, 2025).
Claim No. 27655 We are writing to request a copy of the report regarding the December 5th, 2024 incident involving Peter Ponticelli at the Toscano Family Ice Forum. Please forward all records, reports, documentation and videos to the below
Michael Ayele (a.k.a) W
Association for the Advancement of Civil Liberties (AACL)
FOI #25-488 (11-13-25, 5:52 am) - Subject - Biography of Jean Seberg (November 13th 1938 - August 30th 1979) After Defamation and Wiretap : Chapter 22.2 of Iowa's Open Records Law
Name - Michael Ayele (a.k.a) W
Affiliation - Association for the Advancement of Civil Liberties (AACL)
What I am requesting for prompt disclosure are records in your possession detailing your discussions about [1] the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) as a federal agency of the United States government which has on (or around) July 13th 2022 concluded the processing of FOIA Request Case No.: 820 – 2022 – 005060 by affirming to Michael A. Ayele (a.k.a) W that (i) they do not recognize the National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) as an “independent federal agency created in 1965;” (ii) they have absolutely no knowledge of the awards granted by the NEH for “top-rated proposal examined by panels of independent, external reviewers;” (iii) they have absolutely no knowledge of the NEH defining the term “humanities” as the “study and interpretation of language, linguistics, literature, history, jurisprudence, philosophy, archeology, comparative religion, ethics etc;” [2] the NEH as a federal agency of the United States government which has on (or around) March 24th 2022 concluded the processing of FOIA Request Case No.: 22 – 26 by affirming to Michael A. Ayele (a.k.a) W that they have never contacted (i) the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP) before publishing (on their official website) a brief biography of Jean Seberg stating that “Jean Seberg had become a member of the NAACP at the age of 14 (fourteen)” in 1952; (ii) the Department of Justice (DOJ) Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) before publishing (on their official website) a brief biography of Jean Seberg stating that Jean Seberg was “defamed and wiretapped” under the direction and coordination of the FBI with the Los Angeles Times and Newsweek; [3] Michael A. Ayele (a.k.a) W as a Black Bachelor of Arts (B.A) Degree graduate of Westminster College (Fulton, Missouri) who has witnessed his written content being paradoxically subjected to frenzy before it was very inappropriately filtered and distorted on search engines such as AOL, Bing/MSN, Google and Yahoo following his decision to publish (i) his correspondence with the EEOC on matters related to the mission statement of the NEH; (ii) his correspondence with the NEH on the biography of Jean Seberg (after the defamation and wiretap she was subjected to); [4] Chapter 22.2 of Iowa’s Open Records Law decreeing as follows: “Every person shall have the right to examine and copy a public record and to publish or otherwise disseminate a public record or the information contained in a public record. (…) The right to copy a public record shall include the right to make photographs or photographic copies while the public record is in the possession of the custodian of the public record. All rights under this section are in addition to the right to obtain a certified copy of a public record under section 622.46. A government body shall not prevent the examination or copying of a public record by contracting with a nongovernment body to perform any of its duties or functions...”
Dear UConn Athletics Compliance Office,
My name is Matthew Schutzbank and I am a student in a course on investigative reporting at Yale University, and I am requesting, under Connecticut’s public records law, a copy of any record or spreadsheet showing the number and total value of NIL (Name, Image, and Likeness) deals reported by student-athletes at UConn, broken down by sport, for the 2023–24 or 2024-25 academic years.
I am not requesting any personally identifiable information about individual student-athletes, only aggregate totals by team or sport. Any information you may have would be a tremendous help.