FREEDOM OF INFORMATION COMMISSION

OF THE STATE OF CONNECTICUT

 

In the Matter of a Complaint by                        FINAL DECISION

 

Edward A. Peruta,

 

                                Complainant

 

                against                   Docket #FIC 95-4

 

Chief of Police, Rocky Hill Police Department,

 

                                Respondent                          April 5, 1995

 

                The above-captioned matter was heard as a contested case on January 27, 1995, at which time the complainant and the respondent appeared and presented testimony, exhibits and argument on the complaint.  This matter was consolidated for hearing with contested case docket #FIC 94-208, Edward A. Peruta v. Philip Dunn, Chief of Police, Rocky Hill Police Department.  At the hearing, the International Brotherhood of Police Officers ("IBPO") was granted intervenor status in accordance with the provisions of 1-21j-28, G.S.

 

                After consideration of the entire record, the following facts are found and conclusions of law are reached:

 

                1.  The respondent is a public agency within the meaning of 1-18a(a), G.S.

 

                2.  The issues raised in this matter are duplicative of those raised in contested case docket #FIC 94-208 and are in fact issues between the same complainant and respondent.  Accordingly, this Commission takes administrative notice of the record and final decision on FIC 94-208 and declines to recreate the contents thereof herein.

 

                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 special meeting of April 5, 1995.

 

                                                                             

                                                Debra L. Rembowski

                                                Clerk of the Commission

 

Docket #FIC 95-4                                 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:

 

EDWARD A. PERUTA

38 Parish Road

Rocky Hill, CT 06067

 

CHIEF OF POLICE, ROCKY HILL POLICE DEPARTMENT

c/o Donald W. Strickland, Esq.

Siegel, O'Connor, Schiff & Zangari, P.C.

370 Asylum Street

Hartford, CT 06103

 

                                                                             

                                                Debra L. Rembowski

                                                Clerk of the Commission