Jordon Hudson's FOIAs are circulated at UNC's highest levels

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Back in December, FOIAball broke the news that Jordon Hudson had filed several FOIA requests with UNC, asking for emails about her from some of the school’s top officials.

While FOIAball can’t hate on anyone using public records, this struck us as peculiar, given her boyfriend is the school’s head football coach. 

It raises a thorny question: Should the partner of a university’s most famous employee go QAnon mode on the institution that employs them?

In our opinion, yes. Yes, they should. 

When I shared the scoop, some folks were skeptical. I’ll admit, I had concerns, too. Couldn’t anyone have filled out the request form and tossed in Hudson’s name? 

Certainly. But if this was an imposter, I doubt the requests would be circulated to the school’s vice chancellor, its athletic director, his replacement-in-waiting, the department’s top PR person, and both Bill Belichick’s comms person and his chief of staff. 

So… yea. 

Hudson has filed six requests with the university’s records office. The first four came in December 2025. 

Two were around an attempt to schedule a 60 Minutes interview with Belichick that never took place. One was for emails from school officials mentioning Pablo Torre. Another requested every single email UNC’s senior AD for external affairs sent or received that mentioned her or Belichick. 

This month, Hudson first asked for copies of records released to other requesters. That included one of FOIAball’s, which appears to have prompted this charming DM I recently got.

(She also followed me on Instagram, and if she does not heart one of my stories about my dog soon I stg…….…)

The last one, filed on April 8, covered a Daily Mail piece from July. 

FOIAball often piggybacks on Hudson’s requests, asking for whatever she got back. 

This week, we received the files from the most recent one. In her request, Hudson asked for “all materials provided to … the Daily Mail” in response to the initial request. She appears to think the reporter had an agenda, saying she wanted to “evaluate the materials he obtained versus what he elected to publish in this article.”

Good reminder: You don’t typically need to give a reason for your request.

She also requested all records “created in fulfilling or processing” that request, and “any correspondence with [this part was redacted by UNC’s records office] containing the term ‘Boom Shacka-Lacka!’”

To our disappointment and consternation, there is no Boom Shacka-Lacka! in the documents. What she was looking for there, we can only guess.  

But there were records released around processing both the Daily Mail and Hudson’s request. It seems the school is, let’s just say, cognizant of her behavior. 

The original FOIA by the Daily Mail asked for any emails mentioning Belichick or Hudson that were sent or received by 11 different UNC staffers, including Athletic Director Bubba Cunningham and Chancellor Lee Roberts. The request returned over 360 pages and was the basis for the story, “Bill Belichick's 24-year-old girlfriend Jordon Hudson is dragged into brutal scandal as shocking messages emerge.”

The “brutal scandal” she was dragged into appears to be the one created by the article, which is just how the Daily Mail does it. No disrespect meant, they are the GOAT for a reason. 

The shocking messages were the standard vitriol any public figure gets, magnified by the very high-profile nature of Hudson and Belichick’s relationship. 

If there were emails full of praise as well, the school did not release those. 

There was one missive that prompted a heads-up to UNC’s security team, given how bizarre it was, a man asking for Belichick’s help in getting over his crush on Taylor Swift. 

“Essentially.....! am beside myself with lonesome ness....sorrow...and...sadness.....and misery.... Over Miss Taylor Swift......and hoping to marry Taylor....and could really wonder if Coach Belichick could console or council me”

It ends with him saying he was planning to visit the school, which might be why it was flagged. 

Did FOIAball track down the sender? Would you subscribe to this publication if I didn’t?

He’s an Irish bartender living in Boston. On LinkedIn, he says he goes by both “JDON and Joey D.”

Let’s pause for a second to think of any other publication that goes to these lengths for you, my readers, and remind you to upgrade today. 

The Daily Mail sure didn’t put in the legwork. 

UNC included a page in that document about how it processed the Daily Mail’s original request. The language is a tad confusing, because either the original request was removed and replaced with a follow-up, or it got chopped when the school circulated it.  

The same day the school published it, an email from a records officer was sent to the listserv “Public Records Notification.”

That’s the only document responsive to the school’s handling of the request in the files. Whether that’s the entirety of what was conducted, we can’t say. 

But the school also released emails relating to its processing of the request Hudson filed. 

That request prompted the same kind of email to the same listserv. But the staffer sending it also cc’ed the athletic department’s communications chief, Robbi Pickeral Evans, which didn’t happen with the Daily Mail. 

Another official from the records office forwarded the request to UNC’s head of football communications, as well as Belichick’s chief of staff. 

Let’s take a moment to relish the visual of Belichick’s chief of staff debating whether to inform his boss that his girlfriend is at it again. 

Pickeral Evans forwarded the request to Cunningham, UNC’s AD, and Executive Associate AD Steve Newmark, who is slated to take over the position when Cunningham departs this summer. 

She also sent it to UNC’s Vice Chancellor of Communications, Dean Stoyer. That’s six people looped in, all top brass.

Both forwards appear to acknowledge the school has been paying attention. The email to Stoyer flagged it as “Today's request,” seemingly a reference to the request Hudson made a day earlier. 

The email to Cunningham and Newmark noted it was a “Separate request from the previous.”

Here’s the thing: Hudson’s April 7 request was only for records previously released under different requests. Those files are easy to send to anyone, as they’ve already been cleared and vetted. I asked UNC for some today and got them in less than an hour. I can’t imagine my little request was sent right to Cunningham’s inbox. 

What does this all mean? We honestly have no idea. All we can say is, to use the modern parlance, UNC is monitoring the situation. 

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Jordon Hudson via Instagram