RUTLAND HERALD v. VERMONT STATE POLICE

No. 10-434.

49 A.3d 91 (2012)

2012 VT 24

RUTLAND HERALD v. VERMONT STATE POLICE and Office of the Attorney General.

Supreme Court of Vermont.

March 30, 2012.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Robert B. Hemley and Matthew B. Byrne of Gravel and Shea, P.C., Burlington, for Plaintiff-Appellant.

William H. Sorrell , Attorney General, and Mark J. Di Stefano , Assistant Attorney General, Montpelier, for Defendants-Appellees.

Dan Barrett , Montpelier, for Amicus Curiae American Civil Liberties Union Foundation of Vermont.

Present: REIBER, C.J., DOOLEY, JOHNSON, SKOGLUND and BURGESS, JJ.


SKOGLUND, J.

¶ 1. This case concerns public access to records that newspaper plaintiff Rutland Herald believes are of intense public interest: material related to a criminal investigation of possession of child pornography by employees of the Criminal Justice Training Council at the Vermont Police Academy. The Herald appeals from a trial court decision granting summary judgment to defendants, the Vermont State Police (VSP) and the Office of the Attorney General...

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