FREEDOM OF INFORMATION COMMISSION

OF THE STATE OF CONNECTICUT

 

In the Matter of a Complaint by                        Final Decision

 

Thomas J. Jeffreys,

 

                                Complainant

 

                against                   Docket #FIC 95-307

 

Director, State of Connecticut, Commission on Human Rights and Opportunities,

 

                                Respondent                          May 8, 1996

 

                The above-captioned matter was heard as a contested case on February 23, 1996, at which time the complainant and the respondent appeared, stipulated to certain facts and presented testimony, exhibits and argument on the complaint.

 

                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.  By letter of complaint dated September 5, 1995 and filed with the Commission on September 7, 1995, the complainant appealed alleging that the respondent denied him access to records, including records of phone conversations concerning his Commission on Human Rights and Opportunities case No. 9430164 Jeffreys v. Sikorsky Aircraft (hereinafter "CHRO case records").

 

                3.  It is found that by letter dated August 25, 1995 the complainant requested that the respondent provide him with access to the CHRO case records for the period February 1993 though June 1993.

 

                4.  It is found that by letter dated September 1, 1995 the respondent acknowledged receipt of the complainant's August 25, 1995 letter, described in paragraph 3, above, and indicated that his file could not be located, but once it had been he would be contacted.

 

                5.  It is found that on September 20, 1995 the respondent had a telephone conversation with the complainant and at that time indicated that the only phone calls made between February

 

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1993 and June 1993 were those informing the complainant that the CHRO case, described in paragraph 2, above, would be investigated later in the year due to a backlog.

 

                6.  It is found that the respondent has searched its files and do not maintain any records responsive to the complainant's request for records of telephone conversations or other records pertaining to the CHRO case for the period February 1993 through June 1993.

 

                7.  It is therefore concluded that the respondent did not violate 1-19(a), G.S.

 

                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 regular meeting of May 8, 1996.

 

                                                                             

                                                Elizabeth A. Leifert

                                                Acting Clerk of the Commission

 

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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:

Thomas J. Jeffreys

28 Highland Avenue, Apt. 110

Naugatuck, CT 06770

 

Director, State of Connecticut, Commission on Human Rights and Opportunities

c/o  Philip A. Murphy, Jr., Esq.

Commission Counsel

Commission on Human Rights and Opportunities

90 Washington Street

Hartford, CT 06106

 

                                                                             

                                                Elizabeth A. Leifert

                                                Acting Clerk of the Commission