FREEDOM OF INFORMATION COMMISSION
OF THE STATE OF CONNECTICUT

In the Matter of a Complaint by FINAL DECISION
Bryan Jordan,  
  Complainant  
  against   Docket #FIC 2008-518

James Lewis, Chief, Police Department,

City of New Haven; and

Police Department, City of New Haven,

 
  Respondents June 25, 2009
       

 

            The above-captioned matter was heard as a contested case on October 30 and December 8, 2008, at which times the complainant and the respondents appeared, stipulated to certain facts, and presented testimony, exhibits and argument on the complaint.   The complainant, who is incarcerated, appeared via teleconference, pursuant to the January 2004 memorandum of understanding between the Commission and the Department of Correction.  See  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.).  This matter was consolidated for hearing with docket #FIC 2008-328, Bryan Jordan v. James M. Lewis, Chief, Police Department, City of New Haven; and Police Department, City of New Haven (Final Decision issued April 30, 2009); and docket #FIC 2008-649, Bryan Jordan v. James Lewis, Chief, Police Department, City of New Haven; and Police Department, City of New Haven.

 

            By letter dated February 11, 2009, the complainant asked the Commission to withdraw his appeal concerning the records sought in this case, because he had received all of the requested records except for one, the warrant for the arrest of Detective Clarence Willoughby in the month of February, 2008.  That record was ordered disclosed in docket #FIC 2008-328, above.

           

 

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 June 25, 2009.

 

 

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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:

 

Bryan Jordan, #218810

Garner Correctional Institution

50 Nunnawauk Road

Newtown, CT 06470

 

James Lewis, Chief, Police Department,

City of New Haven; and

Police Department, City of New Haven

c/o Kathleen Foster, Esq.

Office of the Corporation Counsel

City of New Haven

165 Church Street

New Haven, CT 06510

 

 

 

 

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Petrea A. Jones

Acting Clerk of the Commission

 

 

FIC/2008-518FD/paj/6/29/2009