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FOI #24-362 (07-24-24, 2:53 pm) - Subject - Football game contracts
Name - Kevin Kelley
Affiliation - BRI Solutions, LLC
1. All University of Connecticut football game contracts, amendments, and/or cancellations for non-conference opponents for the 2025 season through the 2040 season.
2. A copy of the contract with Syracuse University for a football game in 2024.
1. All emails/attachments from j_emt@hotmail.com to president@uconn.edu from 7/4/24.
2. All emails from j_emt@hotmail.com to generalcounsel@uconn.edu with subject "we live in a police state". "4/11/24" in body of email if subject line is not exact it is approximate.
FOI #24-360 (07-23-24, 9:38 am) - Subject - Payment Bond for UCONN South Campus Res Hall & Dining Project
Name - Carolyn Young
Affiliation - Michelson Kane, P.C.
Requesting a copy of any payment bonds furnished by Exterior Wall Systems Global, Inc. or any other contractor in connection with a construction project at the UCONN South Campus Residence Hall & Dining Hall.
This request is for any payment bond furnished to UCONN in connection with the South Campus Residence and Dining Hall project by KBE Building Corporation.
FOI #24-359 - Subject - Employee Directory Information
Name - Justin Cunningham
Affiliation -
I am writing to request access to and copies of records under the Connecticut Freedom of Information Act.
Starbridge is requesting all current employee/staff contact information. 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. First Name
2. Last Name
3. Position Title
4. Department
5. Employment Type ie: full-time, part-time, contractor
6. General Office Phone Number
7. Direct Office Phone Number
8. Business Cell Phone
9. Office Fax
10. Email Address
11. Office Physical Address
12. Office Mailing Address
FOI #24-358 - Subject - 2024 UConn Football Support Staff Salaries & Contracts
Name - Addie Moore
Affiliation -
I am requesting an opportunity to obtain copies of the following public records: the 2024 salaries and, if applicable, the employment contracts/amendments/LOA/MOU/term sheets/offer letters/etc for football support staff members listed below & any other members not listed below that are associated with the football program
Michael Ayele (a.k.a) W
Michael A. Ayele (a.k.a) W ORCID.: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-5780-6457
FOI #24-357 (07-22-24, 4:36 am) - Subject - American Psychological Association (APA) Apology For Promoting Cultural Incompetence and Junk Science in Healthcare Services
Name - Michael Ayele (a.k.a) W
Affiliation - Michael A. Ayele (a.k.a) W ORCID.: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-5780-6457
What I am requesting for prompt disclosure are records in your possession detailing your discussions about [1] the decision of the American Psychological Association (APA) to recognize on (or around) October 29th 2021 that the “discipline of psychology,” (i) “has since its origins as a scientific discipline in the mid-19th century, contributed to the dispossession, displacement, and exploitation of communities of color;” (ii) “was complicit in contributing to systemic inequities, and hurt many through racism, racial discrimination, and denigration of people of color;” (iii) has promoted pseudoscientific movements such as “eugenics;” [2] the National Council on Disability (NCD) as a federal agency of the United States government, which has on (or around) June 01st 2006 recognized that people begin the process of becoming culturally competent when they (i) reject their preexisting beliefs about a culture; (ii) take into account the influence of their own culture in creating beliefs about other cultures; (iii) prioritize understanding the information provided by other people within the context at hand; (iv) forgo the temptation to classify or label other people with cultural names; [3] the decision of Internet Search Engines (ISE) such as AOL, Bing/MSN and Yahoo to filter and distort the written publications of Michael A. Ayele (a.k.a) W dealing with (i) American history after 1998 on the forcible administration of psychotropic drugs; (ii) the malicious efforts exerted to assert social and financial control over the lives of people who were forcibly (without their consent) administered psychotropic drugs in American mental health care facilities; [4] Michael A. Ayele (a.k.a) W as a Black ex-immigrant of the United States of America (U.S.A) who has in his correspondence with the U.S government (in the mid-2010s and the early-2020s) relied on Jonathan Metzl’s book entitled “The Protest Psychosis: How Schizophrenia Became a Black Disease” (as well as other related journal/newspaper articles) for the purpose of asserting that (i) the “schizophrenia” diagnosis has historically been associated with white women prior to the 1960s; (ii) the “schizophrenia” diagnosis is intricately linked with the now discredited “drapetomania” diagnosis; (iii) Blacks and African Americans are five to seven times more likely than white people to be erroneously and wrongfully diagnosed with “schizophrenia” when living in the territory of the U.S.A; (iv) there’s very probably some type of fraud at play whenever an unsolicited white psychologist and/or psychiatrist (whose expertise have not been sought) declares a Black person to be “schizophrenic;” [5] the widespread social and cultural benefits of revoking the medical licenses of prejudiced psychologists and psychiatrists who have a history of disproportionately declaring Black and/or African American people as “schizophrenic...”
Please see the attached document that will be sent via email to Kayla Postler.
FOI #24-356 (07-18-24, 3:03 pm) - Subject - University communications with Unicor (federal Bureau of Prisons)
Name - Sarah Lynch
Affiliation - Thomson Reuters
To Whom it May Concern,
This is a request for public records. I am a journalist with Reuters. I am seeking of copy of any and all communications from Jan 1, 2021-present, including emails and any attachments therein, between the University of Connecticut and Unicor recycling centers located at federal Bureau of Prisons facilities including the one in Schuylkill, PA. These communications would likely pertain to efforts by UCONN to recycle its old electronic devices.
To assist you in your search for records, you can search for emails to the BOP/Unicor with @usdoj.gov or @bop.gov in them.
You will also find records dating back to 9/29/21 related to 30 pallets of miscellaneous electronic equipment shipped to the Unicor in Schuykill.
I am seeking these records in my capacity as a journalist and not for commercial purposes. Please do not hesitate if you need to contact me to further discuss my request.
I am reachable at 202 579 0289.
I prefer to receive these records electronically, rather than by post.
Sincerely,
Sarah N. Lynch
Journalist
Reuters
PS please note your drop down menu on your form does not list the District of Columbia as an option.
I am located in Washington DC.
FOI #24-355 (07-18-24, 10:51 am) - Subject - EMAILS AND PHONE CALL RECORDS
Name - EDWARD ADAMS
Affiliation - ADAMS & ASSOCIATES
REQUEST COPIES OF EMAIL CORRESPONDENCE OR CALLS FOR SERVICE ON 4/30/24 RELATED TO THE PRO=PALESTINIAN PROTESTS AT UCONN STORRS BETWEEN UCONN STAFF AND THE UCONN POLICE DEPARTMENT.
REQUEST COPIES OF ALL EMAIL CORRESPONDENCE AND PHONE CALL RECORDS FOR SERVICE ON APRIL 30, 2024 RELATED TO THE PRO-PALESTINIAN PROTESTS AT UCONN STORRS BETWEEN THE UCONN POLICE AND THE VILLAGE OF STORRS OR TOWN OF MANSFIELD MUNICIPAL OFFICES.
FOI #24-354 (07-17-24, 3:04 pm) - Subject - Contract(s) for Services
Name - David Del Tatto
Affiliation - Valet Park of America
I'm requesting the current contract(s) for valet, garage management, and shuttle services between UConn Health and LAZ Parking, including any amendments and extensions.