Request Log

FOI #26-102 (02-16-26, 12:21 pm) - Subject - Public Records Request - Dan Hurley Contract/Salary

Name - Paul Myerberg

Affiliation - USA TODAY

Pursuant to the Connecticut Freedom of Information Act, I am writing to request a copy of the following public records:

• The current employment contract and any amendments for Men’s Head Basketball Coach Dan Hurley.
• Documents indicating total compensation, including base salary, bonuses, and incentives for the 2025-26 season.

If some parts of this request are exempt from disclosure, I request that you release the non-exempt, segregable portions of the records.

I am requesting these records for journalistic research as part of USA TODAY’s annual coaches database.

If there are any fees for searching or copying these records, please inform me if they exceed $25. If you are able to send these records electronically (e.g., CSV or PDF to this email address), that would be preferred.

If you deny this request, please cite the specific legal exemption that justifies your refusal.

Thank you.

FOI #26-101 (02-15-26, 9:03 pm) - Subject - FOI

Name - Student Student

Affiliation - The Daily Campus

I am requesting that the records for the following FOIA requests be sent to my email when completed:

FOI #26-100
FOI #26-099
FOI #26-068
FOI #26-067
FOI #26-066
FOI #26-005
FOI #25-554

FOI #26-100 (02-13-26, 2:02 pm) - Subject - Social Services Emails

Name - Megan Brock

Affiliation - Daily Wire

Any/all email communication records (including attachments, URL links and electronic database links) sent and/or received by Angela Weeks (angela.weeks@uconn.edu) and/or Marlene Matarese (marlene.matarese@uconn.edu), to or from Liliana Chakrabarti (Liliana.Chakrabarti@acf.hhs.gov) from January 1, 2025, to March 1, 2025, and October 1, 2025, to December 1, 2025.

I am asking for any/all communication records containing information about:

1. Any/all information or communications about programs, projects, that assist families, including foster care families, and child welfare agencies in supporting LGBTQI+ children.

2. Any/all communications about the 2024 presidential election and how it has impacted LGBTQI+

3. Any/all communications about LGBTQI+ youth and policies that impact LGBTQI+ youth, including but not limited to bans on gender affirming care.

For further specificity, please only include records that contain any or all of the following keywords:
“Family Acceptance” “LGBTQ” “Youth Acceptance” “Family Values” “Affirmative” “discrimination” “ACES” “LGBTQI+” “SOGIE” “CLEARINGHOUSE” “Family Finding” “Trump” “Election” “CAFF” “AFFIRM” “Pritzker” “Casey Foundation” “YAP” “Kellog” “David Thomas” “safety” “gender affirming” “discrimination”

FOI #26-099 (02-13-26, 12:54 pm) - Subject - Social Services

Name - Megan Brock

Affiliation - Daily Wire

Any/all email communication records (including attachments, URL links and electronic database links) sent and/or received by Angela Weeks (angela.weeks@uconn.edu) and/or Marlene Matarese (marlene.matarese@uconn.edu), to or from Merle Chambers, from June 1, 2024, to December 31, 2024.
I am asking for any/all communication records containing the following information:

1. Any/all information about the October 16, 2024, event hosted by ACF “Our Family Values: Building the Evidence Base for Child Well-Being,” including but not limited to communications about the event itinerary, attendees, follow-up, and materials given to attendees before or after the event.

2. Any/all information or communications about programs, projects, grants about expanding the evidence base and availability of programs that assist families, including foster care families, and child welfare agencies in supporting LGBTQI children.

For further specificity, please only include records that contain any or all of the following keywords:
“Family Acceptance” “LGBTQ” “Youth Acceptance” “Family Values” “Affirmative” “discrimination” “ACES” “LGBTQI+” “SOGIE” “CLEARINGHOUSE” “Family Finding” “Trump” “Election” “CAFF” “AFFIRM” “Pritzker” “Casey Foundation” “Aviv Foundation” “Hilton” “YAP” “Kellog” “David Thomas”

FOI #26-098 (02-13-26, 7:50 am) - Subject - 3rd Party Communications Platforms

Name - David Covucci

Affiliation - FOIAball

Pursuant to Connecticut's Freedom of Information Act (Chapter 14 Conn. Gen. Stats.), I am requesting the following documents from your athletics director and/or their top assistant.

Any invitations to any external communications platforms, channels, groups, or apps outside your university’s main platforms, such as Slack, Microsoft Teams, Signal Groups, WhatsApp chats, or others from Bynum Jaeger or any Excel employee or Parker Executive Search employees relating to the school’s 2025 head coaching search that ended with the hiring of Tim Candle.

Any emails or texts directing university officials or members of any coach search committee to download any apps or programs by Bynum Jaeger or any Excel employee or Parker Executive Search employees for the purpose of communicating outside of official government channels.

Any documentation, referenced in emails, texts, or inventory logs, of any devices such as mobile phones or tablets, provided by Bynum Jaeger or any Excel employee or Parker Executive Search employees to your university.

I am requesting that you conduct these searches for your school’s athletic director and/or their top assistant.

If you need a more narrow date range to search, I am requesting communications from 10/1/2025-12/31/2025.

I do understand this request, as worded, is a tad tricky, so I’m willing and open to your best ideas on how to fulfill it. It is my understanding that companies can provide these services during head football coach searches as a way to keep communications off platforms subject to public records laws. I’m hoping to obtain any possible documentation of that process.

Please note that Connecticut law requires public agencies to respond to requests within four days of receiving them by either processing or denying the request, or providing written notice requesting an extension.

As I am an independent journalist engaged in legitimate newsgathering, I am requesting a fee waiver of any associated costs with this request. In lieu of a fee waiver, I am requesting a detailed invoice of any potential costs, if any, associated with this request.

Thanks,
David

FOI #26-097 - Subject - 2400068607 & 2600005378

Name - Ivy Baron

Affiliation -

Requesting any and all records of communications over multiple dates and incidents

FOI #26-096 (02-13-26, 5:08 am) - Subject - National Council on Disability (NCD) FOIA Request Case No. 2023 - 01. https://www.bing.com/search?q=michael+ayele+jeanne+clery

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 National Council on Disability (NCD) as a federal agency of the United States government which had on (or around) January 30th 2018 published a report recognizing that (i) American colleges and universities in receipt of Title IX funding have a legal obligation to inform all their freshmen undergraduate students (whether domestic or international) what constitutes “affirmative and effective consent in healthy sexual relationships;” (ii) American colleges and universities in receipt of Title IX funding have a legal obligation to inform all their freshmen undergraduate students (whether domestic or international) of the Jeanne Clery Act; (iv) twenty percent (20%) of women were sexually assaulted in a college or university setting (of the U.S.A) by the time they reached their senior year in Calendar Year 2005; (v) thirty-two percent (32%) of women with a disability were sexually assaulted during Calendar Years 2014 and 2015 in a college or university setting; (vi) sexual assault “is a public health and public safety concern with far reaching implications;” (vii) sexual assault is a “deeply personal violation” which “leaves physical and emotional impacts that change the lives of victims;” (viii) sexual assault causes “long-term physical, psychological, and emotional effects, including depression, post-traumatic stress, thoughts of suicide, flashbacks, and sleep disorders;” [2] 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 correspondence with the NCD on the subject of their January 30th 2018 report being subjected to frenzy before it was very inappropriately filtered and distorted on internet search engines (ISE) such as AOL, Bing/MSN, Google and Yahoo following his decision to recognize that (i) he was informed what constitutes “affirmative and effective consent” in the month of January 2010 when he was 18 years of age; (ii) he was informed what constitutes “affirmative and effective consent” after being told of the April 05th 1986 rape and murder of Jeanne Ann Clery; (iii) the rape and murder of Jeanne Ann Clery raises questions about Title IX of the Education Amendments Act of 1972; [3] the decision of the Bing/MSN internet search engine (ISE) to filter and distort Michael A. Ayele (a.k.a) W’s correspondence with the NCD on the subject of their January 30th 2018 report by generating unwelcome and unapproved queries such as “Michael Ayele’s role in Title IX reform,” and “Michael Ayele’s impact on Title IX reforms,” “Michael Ayele published articles,” “Michael Ayele article controversies,” “Michael Ayele OSF publications,” “Michael Ayele AACL Projects,” “Michael Ayele academic profile,” “mike ayele alumni.” ( https://www.bing.com/search?q=mike+ayele+alumni )

FOI #26-095 (02-12-26, 5:15 pm) - Subject - NCAA Financial Report

Name - Brittney Lucero

Affiliation -

Open records request for UConn's 2025 NCAA Financial Report. Thank you!

FOI #26-094 (02-12-26, 2:29 pm) - Subject - Bids

Name - Stefanie Santos

Affiliation - Richards Corporation

Richards Corporation is requesting the release of the bid forms for the FO502675 Holcomb, Whitney and Sprague Residence Hall Restroom Renovations.   We have the results, but we were curious if we are able to see the copies of the bid forms from the other bidders.

FOI #26-093 - Subject - Budget Impacts of Revenue Sharing

Name -

Affiliation -

Under the Connecticut Freedom of Information Act, Conn. Gen. Stat. § 1 200 et seq., I am requesting records regarding the budget impact of athletics revenue sharing under the House vs. NCAA settlement.

Within that scope, I request:

1. Any presentations, briefing documents, or budget memoranda that address the effect of revenue sharing costs on UConn’s overall operating budget or structural deficit.

2. Emails (with attachments) and internal memoranda from or to the Athletics Department, the central budget/finance offices, and the Provost's Office that discuss whether, or how, revenue sharing will:
(a) deepen or affect the university’s structural operating deficit, or
(b) require reductions, cuts, or reallocations in funding, hiring, or staffing in non athletics units.

Name Affiliation Subject Location Request Status
Paul Myerberg USA TODAY Public Records Request - Dan Hurley Contract/Salary UConn Storrs Complete
Student Student The Daily Campus FOI UConn Storrs In progress
Megan Brock Daily Wire Social Services Emails UConn Storrs In progress
Megan Brock Daily Wire Social Services UConn Storrs In progress
David Covucci FOIAball 3rd Party Communications Platforms UConn Storrs No records available
Ivy Baron 2400068607 & 2600005378 UConn Storrs Complete
Michael Ayele (a.k.a) W Association for the Advancement of Civil Liberties (AACL) National Council on Disability (NCD) FOIA Request Case No. 2023 - 01. https://www.bing.com/search?q=michael+ayele+jeanne+clery UConn Storrs Complete
Brittney Lucero NCAA Financial Report UConn Storrs Complete
Stefanie Santos Richards Corporation Bids UConn Storrs In progress
Budget Impacts of Revenue Sharing UConn Storrs In progress