‘They are trying to keep a lid on this:’ Smoking gun document among items suppressed at FOI hearing on hidden records about a police-involved shooting
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- July
- 2014
CT Freedom of Information case 2013-775
ISAAC AVILUCEA, ANDY THIBAULT, REGISTER CITIZEN V. CT STATE POLICE
Hearing conducted Wednesday, July 30, 2014 in Hartford
Around the time of a police-involved shooting at the Interlaken Inn in Salisbury, a state police source said: “They are trying to keep a lid on this.”
A state police report was available the night of the incident, Nov. 16, 2013.
Information about the case was requested multiple times by The Register Citizen beginning on Nov. 22, 2013.
State police finally produced the report sometime after April 10, 2014.
Connecticut’s FOI law demands prompt production of documents. Generally, …read more
read moreFight photos, Foxwoods, 7-2-14, second annual “50 Cent’s Birthday Bash”
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- July
- 2014
Photos by JOHN SALATTO for The Cool Justice Report
OK for use w/ credit
New Haven’s Jimmy Williams mixes it up with Stephon Owusu of the Bronx en route to earning a unanimous decision in a 6-round super welterweight bout.
— JOHN SALATTO photo via @cooljustice
Williams dropped Owusu in the second round and staggered him in the third, staying undefeated while recording his seventh win.
— JOHN SALATTO photo via @cooljustice
Shelly Vincent of New London talks with reporters after winning a split decision over Nydia Feliciano of the Bronx in a 6-round super bantamweight slugfest. Vincent improved …read more
read morePost Watergate Motto: ‘We Eat Lawyers’ Bones For Breakfast’
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Cool Justice Editor’s Note:
Watch in The Coming Months for ‘More Cool Justice’
– A Sequel to
This will be the last regular installment of Cool Justice for 21st Century Media in Connecticut. I have the pleasure of digging into a couple special assignments and expect to have some work in print with our group over the next few months.
As Cool Justice concludes this chapter, I thought it would be fun to share a few remembrances …
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Connecticut Council on Freedom of Information announces open government award recipients
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- June
- 2014
Fire and brimstone from CCFOI President Jim Smith
— Bob Thiesfield photo
HARTFORD — A police chief, a state senator, an FOI Commission employee and two journalists have won the annual open government awards from the nonprofit Connecticut Council on Freedom of Information, which has been advocating for freedom of information for six decades.
Blogger and Digital First Media columnist Andy Thibault received the Stephen A. Collins Award for his dogged pursuit on virtually every FOI battlefront in the past year …
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Loitering in Provincetown, I see the light
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- June
- 2014
“Decade after decade, artists came to paint the light of Provincetown, and comparisons were made to the lagoons of Venice and the marshes of Holland … ”
Norman Mailer tells us this in his fun novel, “Tough Guys Don’t Dance,” about a writer who finds a severed head in his marijuana patch.
I got my copy at Tim’s Used Books, which is just a few feet from the Provincetown Book Shop on Commercial Street. Pound for pound, these two shops constitute perhaps the best book haven in New England for readers in search of inspiration, comfort and adventure.
The poet …read more
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