Refinery29 Media Request For Title IX Complaint Records

Molly Longman filed this request with the Department of Education, Office of Civil Rights of the United States of America.
Tracking #

22-00263-F

22-00264-F

Due Nov. 18, 2021
Est. Completion None
Status
Awaiting Response

Communications

From: Molly Longman

To Whom It May Concern:

Pursuant to the Freedom of Information Act, I hereby request the following records:

Any and all Title IX complaints involving New York University within the past 5 years.

In order to help to determine my status to assess fees, you should know that I am a representative of the news media affiliated with Refinery29 and Vice Media Group.

The requested documents will be made available to the general public, and this request is not being made for commercial purposes.

In the event that there are fees, I would be grateful if you would inform me of the total charges in advance of fulfilling my request. I would prefer the request filled electronically, by e-mail attachment if available or CD-ROM if not.

Thank you in advance for your anticipated cooperation in this matter. I look forward to receiving your response to this request within 20 business days, as the statute requires.

Sincerely,

Molly Longman

From: Department of Education, Office of Civil Rights

Dear Molly Longman:

Your request for records related to Title IX complaints filed against New York University during the past five years was forwarded to the New York Office for Civil Rights for processing.

I would like to schedule a quick phone call with you to discuss your request. Are you available any time this afternoon before 4:00 PM?

Sincerely,

John F. Carroll
Program Manager
U.S. Department of Education
New York Office for Civil Rights
32 Old Slip, 26th Fl.
New York, NY 10005

CONFIDENTIALITY NOTICE: This e-mail communication, and any attachments, contains confidential and privileged information for the exclusive use of the recipient named above. If you are not an intended recipient, or the employee or agent responsible for delivery of this to an intended recipient, you are hereby notified that you have received this communication in error and that any review, disclosure, dissemination, distribution, or copying of it or its contents is prohibited. If you have received this communication in error, please notify me immediately by replying to this message and delete this communication from your computer. Thank you.

From: Molly Longman

Hi, John:

Thank you for reaching out. I'd love to speak with you. Do you have any time early next week or this afternoon to speak with me? I'm at 646-937-3440 if you want to give me a call.

Thank you!

Molly

From: Department of Education, Office of Civil Rights

Hi,

How is Tuesday at 10:30 AM? What is the best number at which I can reach you?

Sincerely,

John F. Carroll
Program Manager
U.S. Department of Education
New York Office for Civil Rights
32 Old Slip, 26th Fl.
New York, NY 10005

CONFIDENTIALITY NOTICE: This e-mail communication, and any attachments, contains confidential and privileged information for the exclusive use of the recipient named above. If you are not an intended recipient, or the employee or agent responsible for delivery of this to an intended recipient, you are hereby notified that you have received this communication in error and that any review, disclosure, dissemination, distribution, or copying of it or its contents is prohibited. If you have received this communication in error, please notify me immediately by replying to this message and delete this communication from your computer. Thank you.

From: Molly Longman

Tuesday at 10:30 Eastern sounds great! Feel free to give me a call then at 646-937-3440.

Warm regards,
Molly

From: Department of Education, Office of Civil Rights

Thanks. I will call you then.

From: Department of Education, Office of Civil Rights

Hi Molly,

The purpose of this email is to summarize the modifications you made to the above-referenced FOIA request during our phone conversation yesterday. You had requested documents maintained in case files for Title IX complaints filed against New York University during the past five years. During our call you made the following modifications:

* You would like documents for only Title IX complaints against NYU involving sexual harassment, sexual violence and different treatment based on sex in athletic programs.
* You would like these specific documents for each case described in the first bullet: the complaint; and the determination letter issued to the complainant by OCR. If a final determination letter has not been issued because the case is still pending, you would like a copy of the letter issued to the complainant stating that the complaint has been accepted for investigation.
* You would like OCR to provide you with the responsive documents that are available digitally first. If any documents are not available digitally (i.e. only hard copies exist in the physical case file) you would like OCR to provide those documents but still prioritize the digital documents.

Please confirm that this information is accurate.

Additionally, please inform me whether you would like these modifications to apply to your other pending FOIA requests (see attached). I will share your response with the offices processing those requests.

Sincerely,

John F. Carroll
Program Manager
U.S. Department of Education
New York Office for Civil Rights
32 Old Slip, 26th Fl.
New York, NY 10005

CONFIDENTIALITY NOTICE: This e-mail communication, and any attachments, contains confidential and privileged information for the exclusive use of the recipient named above. If you are not an intended recipient, or the employee or agent responsible for delivery of this to an intended recipient, you are hereby notified that you have received this communication in error and that any review, disclosure, dissemination, distribution, or copying of it or its contents is prohibited. If you have received this communication in error, please notify me immediately by replying to this message and delete this communication from your computer. Thank you.

From: Department of Education, Office of Civil Rights

Hi Molly,

Just confirming that you received this as I have not yet received a response.

Sincerely,

John F. Carroll
Program Manager
U.S. Department of Education
New York Office for Civil Rights
32 Old Slip, 26th Fl.
New York, NY 10005

CONFIDENTIALITY NOTICE: This e-mail communication, and any attachments, contains confidential and privileged information for the exclusive use of the recipient named above. If you are not an intended recipient, or the employee or agent responsible for delivery of this to an intended recipient, you are hereby notified that you have received this communication in error and that any review, disclosure, dissemination, distribution, or copying of it or its contents is prohibited. If you have received this communication in error, please notify me immediately by replying to this message and delete this communication from your computer. Thank you.

From: Molly Longman

Hi, John!

So sorry for the delay here, I missed these notifications from MuckRock. But yes, these modifications are correct, and I'd love to apply them to my other two requests.

Do you have any other sense of timeline on these requests? Thank you so much for all your time and help, and have a great weekend!

Warm regards,
Molly

From: Molly Longman

Hi, John!

I hope this note finds you well. I just wanted to check on the status of this request. I am also curious if, as we spoke about, any of my other requests for the University of Vermont and the University of Nebraska were also packaged into this request too?

Thank you!

Warm regards,
Molly

From: Department of Education, Office of Civil Rights

Hi Molly,

Sorry for the delayed response.

Your requests have been consolidated into FOIA No. 22-00263-F.

OCR’s FOIA Service Center is coordinating the production of the documents and should contact you soon.

Thanks for your patience and understanding.

Sincerely,

John F. Carroll
Program Manager
U.S. Department of Education
New York Office for Civil Rights
32 Old Slip, 26th Fl.
New York, NY 10005

CONFIDENTIALITY NOTICE: This e-mail communication, and any attachments, contains confidential and privileged information for the exclusive use of the recipient named above. If you are not an intended recipient, or the employee or agent responsible for delivery of this to an intended recipient, you are hereby notified that you have received this communication in error and that any review, disclosure, dissemination, distribution, or copying of it or its contents is prohibited. If you have received this communication in error, please notify me immediately by replying to this message and delete this communication from your computer. Thank you.

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