FREEDOM OF INFORMATION COMMISSION OF THE STATE OF CONNECTICUT
In the Matter of a Complaint by			FINAL DECISION
Tim Sohn and The Echo,
		Complainants
	against		Docket #FIC 1999-253
Dean, State of Connecticut, Western Connecticut State University, Human Resources Management; State of Connecticut, Western Connecticut State University, Human Resources Management; and Protective Services Employees Coalition,
		Respondents	October 13, 1999

The caption above has been amended and restated in order to reflect the granting of party status to the Protective Services Employees Coalition. The matter was scheduled to be heard as a contested case on July 29, 1998, at which time the complainants and the respondents appeared in order to present testimony and argument on the complaint.

At an informal conference prior to the July 29, 1999 hearing, the complainants and the respondents reached the terms of an agreement in resolution of this contested case. The University respondents agreed to furnish to the complainants, within two weeks, copies of the employment applications for dispatchers and Sergeants as requested, but with the following information redacted for employment applicants and references residing at the same address as employment applicants: residential address, residential telephone number and social security number. Moreover, this agreement is without prejudice to the claims of exemption of respondent Protective Services Employees Coalition concerning other pre-employment records, not subject to the request and complaint herein, but which are required by the Police Officers Standards and Training Council (such as, for example, the results of polygraph and psychological examinations). Based upon this agreement, the complainants informed the Commission that they wished to withdraw their complaint.

The Commission warmly commends both the complainants 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

October 13, 1999.

_________________________

Melanie R. Balfour

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:

Tim Sohn and The Echo

c/o Tim Sohn

3 Mohansic Road

Lake Carmel, NY 10512

Dean, State of Connecticut, Western

Connecticut State University, Human

Resources Management; and State of

Connecticut, Western Connecticut

State University, Human Resources

Management

c/o Charles P. Spiridon

Dean of Human Resources Management

Western Connecticut State University

181 White Street

Danbury, CT 06810

Protective Services Employees Coalition

c/o Kathleen Flanagan Beal

President

705 North Mountain Road

Newington, CT 06111-1411

__________________________

Melanie R. Balfour

Acting Clerk of the Commission

FIC1999-253/FD/mes/10141999