FREEDOM OF INFORMATION COMMISSION
OF THE STATE OF CONNECTICUT

In the Matter of a Complaint by FINAL DECISION

John R. Cooke,

 
  Complainant  
  against   Docket #FIC 2010-595

State of Connecticut, Division of

Public Defender Services, Office

of Chief Public Defender,

 
  Respondent

August 24, 2011

       

 

The above-captioned matter was scheduled to be heard as a contested case on April 28, 2011 at which time the complainant and the respondent appeared.  Mr. Ian Cooke, the subject of the records requested in this matter, requested and was granted intervener status.  Mr. Ian Cooke, who is incarcerated, appeared via teleconference.

 

The hearing in this matter was continued to give the parties an opportunity to resolve the matter without a hearing.

 

By letter dated and received on June 15, 2011, the complainant withdrew his complaint.

 

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.

2.      All parties are commended for their diligent efforts in resolving this matter.  

 

Approved by Order of the Freedom of Information Commission at its regular meeting of August 24, 2011.

 

__________________________

Cynthia A. Cannata

Acting Clerk of the Commission

 

Docket #FIC 2010-595                                                                                       Page 2

 

 

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:

 

John R. Cooke

132 Gungy Road

Salem, CT  06420

 

State of Connecticut, Division of Public Defender Services,

Office of Chief Public Defender

c/o Deborah DelPrete Sullivan, Esq.

Division of Public Defender Services

Office of Chief Public Defender

30 Trinity Street, 4th Floor

Hartford, CT  06106

 

Ian Cooke (Intervenor)

c/o Moira L. Buckley, Esq.

Shipman & Goodwin, LLP

One Constitution Plaza

Hartford, CT  06447

 

 

 

____________________________

Cynthia A. Cannata

Acting Clerk of the Commission

 

 

 

 

 

FIC/2010-595/FD/cac/8/24/2011