BOARD OF POLICE COMMISSIONERS v. FREEDOM OF INFORMATION COMMISSION

(12628), (12629)

199 Conn. 451 (1986)

BOARD OF POLICE COMMISSIONERS OF THE CITY OF NEW HAVEN ET AL. v. FREEDOM OF INFORMATION COMMISSION ET AL. BOARD OF FIRE COMMISSIONERS OF THE CITY OF NEW HAVEN ET AL. v. FREEDOM OF INFORMATION COMMISSION ET AL.

Supreme Court of Connecticut.

Decision released April 22, 1986.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Constance L. Chambers, assistant general counsel, with whom was Mitchell W. Pearlman, general counsel, for the appellant (named defendant in both cases).

Robert S. Reger, with whom, on the brief, were Charles G. Albom, corporation counsel, and Carolyn W. Kone, assistant corporation counsel, for the appellees (plaintiffs in each case).

PETERS, C. J., SHEA, DANNEHY, SANTANIELLO and CALLAHAN, JS.


PER CURIAM.

The dispositive issue on these appeals is whether the defendant freedom of information commission (hereinafter the commission) complied with mandatory statutory requirements governing commission action. Acting upon complaints filed by two New Haven reporters, the defendant commission determined that the plaintiff New Haven board of fire commissioners and the plaintiff New Haven board of police commissioners had...

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