05/31/19 – By Dave Collins
HARTFORD — A proposed new contract for Connecticut State Police includes new restrictions on the public release of information in troopers’ personnel files, drawing concerns from government transparency advocates.
Colleen Murphy, executive director of the state Freedom of Information Commission, said the new contract language could be interpreted in a way that would ban the release of any information from troopers’ files, keeping secret the results of misconduct investigations and discipline imposed on troopers. (Read More)