FREEDOM
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Joy Russell Perez and the Hartford |
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Docket #FIC 2000-584 |
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Chief, Police Department, Town of |
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Respondents |
January 10, 2001 |
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The above-captioned matter was scheduled to be heard as a contested
case on November 21, 2000 at 10:00 A.M., at which time the respondent appeared
but the complainants did not.
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 with prejudice.
2. The Commission
admonishes the complainants for their failure to appear at the hearing in this
matter, which failure resulted in a waste of scarce state and municipal
resources.
3. In the event the
complainants file future complaints against the respondent, the executive
director may review such complaints, pursuant to §1-206(b)(2),
G.S., which provides that the executive director of the commission shall not
schedule an appeal for hearing without first seeking and obtaining leave of
the commission, if the director has reason to believe an appeal would
constitute an abuse of the commission's administrative process.
Approved by Order of the Freedom of Information Commission at its regular meeting of January 10, 2001.
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Dolores E. Tarnowski
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:
Joy Russell Perez and the
Hartford Courant
373 East Main Street
Middletown, CT 06457
Chief, Police Department,
Town of East Hampton
c/o Jean M. D’Aquila, Esq.
Howard, McMillan & D’Aquila
386 Main Street
Middletown, CT 06457
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Dolores E. Tarnowski
Clerk of the Commission