06/29/17 – By Mike Savino HARTFORD — The Freedom of Information Commission Wednesday issued Insurance Commissioner Katharine Wade a $500 fine after ruling that she improperly withheld documents last summer related to a proposed merger between Aetna and Humana. [Read More]
06/27/17 – By Anthony Moaton The ACLU of Connecticut is demanding access to information about police brutality settlements involving former Enfield Police Officer Matthew Worden.[Read More]
06/26/17 – By Kevin Schultz NORWALK — The need for layoffs within the city’s public school system for the upcoming school year has been avoided. [Read More]
06/26/17 – By Hanna Snyder Gambini WOODBURY – The state Freedom of Information Commission ruled against the town in two separate cases, but no penalties were issued. Both complaints, filed by Main Street South resident Tom Arras, involve executive sessions during Board of Selectmen meetings. [Read More]
06/25/17 – By Dave Collins, Associated Press HARTFORD, Conn. – Eight brutality lawsuits settled over the past 10 months paint a disturbing picture of a former Connecticut police officer accused of beating people while they were handcuffed and ordering his police dog to attack others who were not resisting arrest. [Read More]
06/23/17 – By Chris Powell SUBVERTING THE RIGHT TO KNOW: An important right-to-know case has arisen in Enfield, where the Town Council has refused to make public the financial settlements paid by the town’s insurer in police brutality lawsuits. To subvert Connecticut’s freedom-of-information law, the town’s administration has told the town’s insurer to hold all […]
06/21/17 – By Mike Savino Email lists compiled by legislators are fair game for political campaigns, two watchdog agencies have said in recent rulings. [Read More]
06/20/17 – By Joe Wojtas Stonington — Just hours before a hearing was slated to take place Tuesday afternoon in Hartford, the town agreed to settle a Freedom of Information Act complaint filed by The Day that alleged the Board of Selectmen held an illegal executive session and posted an illegal agenda for its April […]
06/20/17 – By Mikaela Porter Town officials plan to appeal last week’s Freedom of Information Commission decision that police brutality lawsuit settlement information involving a former Enfield officer is public information, saying the documents are exempt from FOI because they are maintained by the town’s former insurer. [Read More]
06/19/17 – By Ethan Fry Derby must release a lawyer’s report detailing an investigation of a complaint made against the city’s police chief, the Freedom of Information Commission ruled Wednesday (June 14). [Read More]