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SHEW v. FREEDOM OF INFORMATION COMMISSION

(SC 15707)

245 Conn. 149 (1998)

O. PAUL SHEW v. FREEDOM OF INFORMATION COMMISSION ET AL.

Supreme Court of Connecticut.

Officially released June 23, 1998.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Victor R. Perpetua, appellate attorney, with whom, on the brief, was Mitchell W. Pearlman, general counsel, for the appellant (named defendant).

Felix J. Springer, with whom was Daniel A. Schwartz, for the appellee (plaintiff).

Mary-Michelle U. Hirschoff filed a brief for the Connecticut Conference of Municipalities as amicus curiae.

Callahan, C. J., and Borden, Berdon, Palmer and McDonald, JS.

Opinion

PALMER, J.

The sole issue in this certified appeal is whether certain documents created by an attorney who had been retained by the town of Rocky Hill (town) to conduct an investigation of the town's police chief are subject to disclosure under the Freedom of Information Act, General Statutes § 1-7 et seq. The named defendant, freedom of information commission (commission), ordered the plaintiff, O. Paul Shew, the town manager of Rocky...

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