Meriden Staff, Officials to Undergo Training After FOI Ruling – Meriden Record-Journal

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01/17/19 – By Matthew Zabierek MERIDEN — The city will offer training on freedom of information compliance to all city boards and commissions next month after the FOI Commission ruled Read More …

Connecticut needs meaningful access to police videos – Hartford Courant

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01/13/19 – By Sasha Dudding The parents of 20-year-old Zoe Dowdell had to wait 382 days before seeing the video capturing the moment of their son’s death in a 2017 Read More …

UNDERSTANDING CONNECTICUT’S FOIA: Electronic participation by board members at meetings: When and how it can be “legal”? – JD Supra

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01/11/19 – By Pullman & Comley A common problem for boards of education is getting enough members in attendance at a board meeting in order to have a quorum (usually, Read More …

Bridgeport School board wrestles with staff relations and each other – CT Post

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01/08/19 – By Linda Conner Lambeck BRIDGEPORT — The city school board met in private with its attorney Monday to discuss legal advice about board/staff relations but not before allowing Read More …

Video shows aftermath of alleged sexual assault by von Keyserling – Greenwich Time

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12/16/18 – Staff Reports GREENWICH — Surveillance footage published Sunday reportedly shows the moments after Christopher von Keyserling, a former member of the Representative Town Meeting, allegedly sexually assaulted a Read More …

Report: Meriden School Readiness Council violated FOI rules – Meriden Record Journal

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12/14/18 – By Matthew Zabierek MERIDEN — A Freedom of Information Commission hearing officer concluded the city’s School Readiness Council violated state transparency laws dating back several years and recommended Read More …

Audio of Supreme Court Oral Arguments Available via Judicial Branch Website – Connecticut Judicial Department

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12/14/18 The Supreme Court has made available on its website, free of charge, audio recordings of oral arguments: https://www.jud.ct.gov/supremecourt/Audio/OralArgumentsAudio.aspx The audio is available from the Court’s Second Term, which began on Read More …

Draft FOI decision says Meriden police should release internal affairs reports – Meriden Record-Journal

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12/12/18 – By Mike Savino MERIDEN — The police department improperly withheld four internal affairs reports involving former Capt. Patrick Gaynor, according to a Freedom of Information Commission hearing officer. Read More …

Why the Courant Is Publishing Adam Lanza Documents – Hartford Courant

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12/09/18 – Editorial The Courant today is revealing new information about what was in the heart and mind of the most heinous killer in the state’s history, Adam Lanza. In Read More …

ACLU challenges decision by FOI Commission on police shooting – New Britain Herald

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12/08/18 – By Lisa Backus HARTFORD – The Connecticut American Civil Liberties Union and the parents of a man shot and killed by New Britain police last year are challenging Read More …