Contained within the Special Events series are materials related to fundraising events as well as conferences and workshops sponsored by Environmental Advocates. Materials include notes, flyers, invitations, invitees, financial records, and correspondence.
This series consists of 2.5 cubic feet of files related to complaints and inquiries received and investigated by the Willowbrook Review Panel. Many of these complaints came from parents or guardians of Willowbrook class members, expressing concern about conditions at facilities or in community placements. Other complaints came from facility employees, claiming that they had observed disregard for the mandates of the Consent Decree while on the job. There are also records of general inquiries about the Review Panel and the Consent Decree from students, the news media, and others.
A preliminary processing effort created four boxes under the general heading "Secretaries Files", with the folders in two of the boxes additionally designated as belonging to Edward J. Alfonsin (UUP's Secretary from 1975 to 1981, although some of the files pre-date his tenure as Secretary). It is unknown if this arrangement was original to the records themselves or created during preliminary processing. The records in this series overlap the records in other series in this collection, particularly the records of Delegate Assemblies and Executive Board meetings. However, the membership lists in this series are not found elsewhere in the collection.
This series contains transcripts, exhibits, and supporting materials from legal proceedings related to Willowbrook and the Review Panel. At the end of the series are several folders containing items marked Exhibit VII through Exhibit XII. The legal significance of these items could not be determined.
This series contains news articles about Willowbrook, the Consent Decree, community placement, care of the developmentally disabled in New York State, and related topics. Most articles are from the New York Times and the Staten Island Advance. Articles from other publications are found in three folders at the end of the series.
This series contains publications from various sources collected by the Review Panel on topics such as family care, human rights, and programming for the developmentally disabled.
Subject files designated as those of the Secretary, although the exact individual maintaining the files is unknown as they span several Secretaries' terms and include materials from prior to UUP's creation through the Reilly administration. The bulk of the files cover the end of the Wakshull administration, the entire Drescher administration, and the first year or so of the Reilly administration. It is suspected that the project and subject files from the Reilly administration included in Series 5 of Subgroup III in some way superseded these files except with regard to a few subjects.
This series contains the New York Civil Liberties Union's files related to Willowbrook and the Consent Decree. It consists of court papers from primarily NYSARC and Parisi v. Rockefeller/Carey (United States District Court-Eastern District of New York, No. 72-C-356/357), the lawsuit filed by the New York State Association for Retarded Children and the parents or representatives of several Willowbrook Class members against New York State in the wake of Geraldo Rivera's TV news story. The materials are arranged chronologically, and may be divided into two periods: the pre-Consent Decree phase, 1973-1975 and the post-Consent Decree phase, 1977-1981.
This series contains mostly materials that NYCAP collected for its information clearinghouse. It consists primarily of photocopies of the work of others, on specific pesticides and pests. It has been divided up into two subseries, one for pesticides, and the other for pests. Two important sources of the pesticides information were the EPA Fact Sheets and the Extension Toxicology Network (EXTOXNET). The amount of material on each pesticide or pest ranges from a page or two to an entire linear foot on mosquitoes.
