05/08/2023 By Christine Stuart Similar to what lawmakers have been trying to practice this session, some lawmakers want local boards and commission members to show their faces when talking and voting remotely. The bill, which passed the Planning & Development Continue reading Bill Asks Local Officials To Be Both Seen and Heard – CT News Junkie
05/05/2023 By Brian Hallenbeck May 5—Connecticut’s House of Representatives unanimously passed a bill this week that would establish a task force to study requiring public comment periods at meetings of all public agencies. The bill will move to the Senate Continue reading House approves bill creating panel to study mandatory public comment periods – The Day, New London
05/02/2023 By Brian Lockhart, Jacqueline Rabe Thomas, and Joshua Eaton BRIDGEPORT — In an effort to comply with a state transparency law it has long flouted, Mayor Joe Ganim’s administration is taking a controversial approach to reduce its massive backlog Continue reading Bridgeport’s attempt to comply with transparency law may not be legal, experts say – Connecticut Post
04/26/2023 By Michele Jacklin The silence has been deafening. Curiously so. As state lawmakers continue to hack away at Connecticut’s Freedom of Information Act, the response from members of the public and the news media has been confounding passivity. The Continue reading Michele Jacklin: Nix these new restraints on Connecticut’s FOI Act – Connecticut Mirror
04/26/2023 By David Collins At about the same time New London began to dig in its heels over my body cam footage request, Stonington announced it had assigned a staff member to manage and comply with body cam video requests, Continue reading David Collins: New London to fight FOI Commission’s order to release police body cam video – The Day, New London
04/24/2023 By Katie Seltzer I was recently asked if I had ever filed a Freedom of Information appeal. Sure, I said. Many times. What I meant was that I had filed a Freedom of Information records request and had been Continue reading For a new Connecticut reporter, public records seem within reach – Connecticut Public Radio
04/24/2023 By Kendra Baker BETHEL — The Freedom of Information Commission has found the town in violation of public records laws over its refusal to provide public access to unedited video from a meeting from last year. The February ruling Continue reading Bethel developers win Freedom of Information case against town over denial of unedited meeting video – Danbury News Times
By Allison Dunn 04/04/2023 The Connecticut Appellate Court upheld an administrative appeal that concluded the Yale University Police Department properly denied a student’s request to access certain body camera recordings created when officers were responding to “an uncorroborated allegation of Continue reading Appellate Court: Yale Police Not Required to Turn Over Recordings of ‘Uncorroborated Allegations of a Crime’ – Law.com
By Thane Grauel 03/29/2023 WESTPORT — The Board of Selectwomen and the Town Attorney’s Office will hold Freedom of Information Act training for town staff, board and commission members Thursday. The sessions, at 3 and 7 p.m., in the Town Continue reading Town sets open meeting training, not revealed to public – Westport Journal
By Staff Report 03/27/2023 Lawmakers advanced five bills Friday out of committee revising the state’s Freedom of Information Act, including one that seeks to improve enforcement by increasing the maximum fine allowed for denial of public records requests from $1,000 Continue reading Committee Approves Bill With Steep Penalties for FOI Violations – CT News Junkie
