The above-captioned matter was scheduled to be heard as a contested case on June 
5, 1998, at which time the complainant and the respondents appeared in order to present 
testimony and argument on the complaint. 

	At an informal conference prior to the June 8, 1998 hearing, the complainant and 
the respondents reached the terms of an agreement in resolution of this contested case. 
The parties agreed that the respondents would prepare a supplement to their incident 
report 98-1745, dated January 31, 1998, which supplement would substitute the phrase 
“[d]ue to Marlow’s behavior…”  in lieu of the similar phrase in the January 31, 1998 
report which also characterized the behavior. The respondents will provide a copy of such 
supplement to the complainant. Based upon this agreement, the complainant informed the 
Commission that he wished to withdraw his complaint.

	The Commission warmly commends both the complainant and the respondents 
for working successfully to negotiate a non-litigated settlement of their earlier 
differences.

	The following order by the Commission is hereby recommended on the basis of 
the record concerning the above-captioned complaint:

	1.  The complaint is hereby dismissed.

	Approved by Order of the Freedom of Information Commission at its regular 
meeting of July 22, 1998.

_________________________
Doris V. Luetjen
Acting Clerk of the Commission

PURSUANT TO SECTION 4-180(c), G.S., THE FOLLOWING ARE THE NAMES OF 
EACH PARTY AND THE MOST RECENT MAILING ADDRESS, PROVIDED TO 
THE FREEDOM OF INFORMATION COMMISSION, OF THE PARTIES OR THEIR 
AUTHORIZED REPRESENTATIVE.

THE PARTIES TO THIS CONTESTED CASE ARE:

Tracy A. Marlow
3 West End Avenue
Old Greenwich, CT 06870-1640

Hugh F. McManus, Chief, Darien Police Department, Town of Darien; and Darien Police 
Department, Town of Darien
c/o John D. Hertz
Darien Town Counsel
Curtis, Brinckerhoff and Barrett, P.C.
666 Summer Street
Stamford, CT 06901-1416

__________________________
Doris V. Luetjen
Acting Clerk of the Commission

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