FREEDOM OF INFORMATION COMMISSION
OF THE STATE OF CONNECTICUT

 

The above-captioned matter was scheduled to be heard as a contested case on January 25, 2010, at which time the complainants and the respondents appeared.  At the hearing on this matter, the parties indicated that eleven of the twelve records requested by the complainants had either been provided, or do not exist, and that they had reached an agreement that would resolve the one outstanding records request, which agreement was stated on the record as follows:

 

The respondents will provide “all records relating to internal investigations, or communications about such investigations (including any records of complaints filed with the East Haven Police Department), of the East Haven Police Department’s use of excessive, deadly or lethal force, conducted between April 14, 1991 and March 25, 2009,” to the extent any such records exist and are maintained by the respondents.  The respondents will provide said records on, or before, February 12, 2010, and at no cost to the complainants.

 

While the Commission has some concerns about the respondents’ delay in fully complying with the complainants’ records requests, which requests were made by letter dated March 27, 2009, the parties are commended for reaching an amicable settlement of the matters in this case. 

 

 

 

 

 

Approved by Order of the Freedom of Information Commission at its regular meeting of February 24, 2010.

 

 

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S. Wilson

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:

 

Sr. Mary Ellen Burns and

Apostle Immigrant Services

290 Grand Avenue

New Haven, CT 06513

 

Len Gallo, Chief, Police Department,

City of East Haven; and Police

Department, City of East Haven

C/o Hugh F. Keefe, Esq. and

Benjamin D. Gettinger, Esq.

Lynch, Traub, Keefe and Errante

52 Trumbull Street

P.O. Box 1612

New Haven, CT 06506

 

 

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S. Wilson

Acting Clerk of the Commission

 

 

FIC/2009-281FD/sw/3/1/2010