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The Connecticut Freedom of Information Commission concurred with a hearing officer’s opinion that a Republican caucus last year didn’t constitute a meeting and therefore didn’t violate any state notice and record-keeping requirements. Democrat John Moise, appointed to the Board of Fire Commissioners after an unsuccessful Board of Finance bid in November, filed the complaint. He claimed a gathering of council Republicans last summer constituted a meeting and was subject to FOI rules.
Meriden Record-Journal
A police department in New York state has come under fire from a civil rights organization for using the letter “Y” — for the color yellow — to denote officers of Asian descent. A screenshot of one document obtained by the New York Civil Liberties Union through a Freedom of Information Law request shows that the Nassau County Police Department on Long Island used single letters as categories to tally the races of its sworn personnel. The department confirmed to NBC News that “B” signified black; “H,” Hispanic; “W,” white; and “Y,” yellow. “I,” for Indian, was also used in reference to Native Americans, the department said.
NBC News
A U.S. judge on Tuesday blocked the imminent release of blueprints for 3-D printed guns, hours before they were set to hit the internet, after several states sued to halt publication of designs to make weapons that security screening may not detect.
Reuters
A reporting organization and a legal group on Tuesday filed a lawsuit against the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) alleging that the federal agency has failed to release documents they requested detailing FEMA’s emergency relief efforts following Hurricane Maria last year. The Center for Investigative Reporting in Puerto Rico (CPI) and legal organization LatinoJustice say they requested documents from the agency through the Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) in February and FEMA still has not produced them, according to the court filing.
The Hill
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