FOI #25-475 (11-7-25, 11:04 am)

Athletics Funding/Saudi Arabia

Name: David Covucci

Affiliation: FOIAball

Location: UConn Storrs

Request Date Start: 05/02/2025

Request Date End: 10/31/2025

Details: Pursuant to Connecticut's Freedom of Information Act (Chapter 14 Conn. Gen. Stats.), I am requesting the following documents from either your athletics, risk management, insurance, or export control office.

Any international travel approval form filed out by the following individuals.

Eddie Hernon

Any risk assumption form filed out by the above-named individuals.

Any forms, questionnaires, or emails provided to or created by your university’s export control or similar department for the above-named individual relating to international travel.

Please note, some of these documents may have been filed or filed out by assistants on their behalf.

Any emails sent or received by the above-named individuals mentioning the following terms

“Saudi”
“Riyadh”
“Donor” AND “International”

Please exclude any newsletters or blast emails such as d1ticker from your responsive records (those things are all our banes of existence).

I am requesting the above documents from the following date range: 5/1/2025 to 10/31/2025.

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.

Thank you,
David

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