The Day: Thin excuses for keeping the public in the dark

From the Day, New London 01/22/2023 At a Jan. 3 proceeding conducted by a Connecticut Freedom of Information Commission hearing officer, an attorney for the Connecticut Port Authority was pressed Read More …

Lamont’s corruption-plagued port authority still fighting transparency – The Day, New London

By David Collins 01/07/2023 You would think that Gov. Ned Lamont, with his administration under multiple criminal investigations focused on hundreds of millions of dollars in public spending, would try Read More …

Feds conduct wide-ranging criminal investigation of port authority – The Day

08/18/2022 By David Collins A federal grand jury has subpoenaed six years of Connecticut Port Authority records pertaining to a wide-ranging investigation of the quasi-public agency’s business, from its comprehensive Read More …

Dave Collins: Lamont’s port authority spending lavishly in FOI fight – The Day, New London

02/20/2020 – By Dave Collins I was startled, when I turned up at a Freedom of Information Commission hearing room Thursday for an airing of one of my FOI requests, Read More …

Dave Collins: The rising cost of Lamont’s State Pier plan is secret – The Day, New London

01/29/2020 – By Dave Collins I don’t know which is worse, the fact that Gov. Ned Lamont is planning in secret to spend probably millions of dollars more than the Read More …

Dear FOI commissioners: Please make port authority comply – The Day

01/21/2020 – By David Collins The Connecticut Freedom of Information Commission is scheduled to consider at its meeting Wednesday a complaint I filed in August requesting emails between the Connecticut Read More …

Plans for a $100 million State Pier project, filling in acres of dock space, are secret

04/02/19 – By David Collins The Connecticut Port Authority is considering a $100 million grand remaking of State Pier, including filling seven acres of dock space between the existing pier Read More …