Amid nationwide protests over police brutality, New York legislators repealed a law used to keep the records secret, but several police unions sued to prevent their disclosure.
last week, arguing that the publication of records related to unsubstantiated or unfounded complaints would violate officers’ collective bargaining agreements as well as their right to due process.
In the month since the law was repealed, however, some of those records have already been released under New York’s Freedom of Information Law. In her Wednesday decision, Judge Failla also barred the New York Civil Liberties Union from releasing some 81,000 officers’ records it received through a public records request to the Civilian Complaint Review Board, an independent agency charged with investigating allegations of police misconduct.
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