DIRECTOR, DEPT. OF INFORM. v. FREEDOM COM'N

No. 17262.

874 A.2d 785 (2005)

274 Conn. 179

DIRECTOR, DEPARTMENT OF INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY OF THE TOWN OF GREENWICH, v. FREEDOM OF INFORMATION COMMISSION et al.

Supreme Court of Connecticut.

Decided June 21, 2005.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Haden P. Gerrish, assistant town attorney, with whom were John K. Wetmore, Greenwich, town attorney, and Robert M. Shields, Jr., Hartford, for the appellant (plaintiff).

Clifton A. Leonhardt, chief counsel, with whom were M. Dean Montgomery and, on the brief, Mitchell W. Pearlman, general counsel, for the appellee (named defendant).

Daniel J. Klau, Lucy Dalglish, pro hac vice, David B. Smallman and Andrew L. Deutsch, pro hac vice, filed a brief for the Reporters Committee for Freedom of the Press et al. as amici curiae.

SULLIVAN, C.J., and NORCOTT, KATZ, PALMER and VERTEFEUILLE, Js.


VERTEFEUILLE, J.

The plaintiff, the director of the department of information technology of the town of Greenwich (town), appeals from the trial court's judgment dismissing his administrative appeal from a final decision of the named defendant, the freedom of information commission (commission). In its decision, the commission ordered the plaintiff to provide the complainant, Stephen Whitaker,1 with copies of certain computerized data...

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