FREEDOM OF INFORMATION COMMISSION
OF THE STATE OF CONNECTICUT

  

The above-captioned matter was consolidated for hearing with Docket #FIC 2008-224, Anthony Torres v. Joan M. Ellis, Administrator, State of Connecticut, Department of Correction, Freedom of Information Office; and State of Connecticut, Department of Correction.  The two consolidated cases were scheduled to be heard as contested cases on September 17, 2008, at which time the respondents appeared, but the complainant, who is incarcerated, refused to appear via teleconference.  See the January 2004 memorandum of understanding between the Commission and the Department of Correction establishing such teleconferences; and Docket No. CV 03-0826293, Anthony Sinchak v. FOIC et al, Superior Court, J.D. of Hartford at Hartford, Corrected Order dated January 27, 2004 (Sheldon, J.), approving such teleconferences. 

 

The following order by the Commission is hereby recommended on the basis of the record concerning the above-captioned complaint:

 

            1.  The complaint is dismissed.

 

Approved by Order of the Freedom of Information Commission at its special meeting of October 8, 2008.

 

 

____________________________

Petrea A. Jones

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:

 

Anthony Torres, #246027

Northern Correctional Institution

287 Bilton Road

PO Box 665

Somers, CT 06071

 

Theresa C. Lantz, Commissioner,

State of Connecticut,

Department of Correction

24 Wolcott Hill Road

Wethersfield, CT 06109

 

State of Connecticut,

Department of Correction

24 Wolcott Hill Road

Wethersfield, CT 06109

 

 

 

 

__________________________

Petrea A. Jones

Acting Clerk of the Commission

 

 

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