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Battle Over Cops' Disciplinary Records Continues in Courts

By RICHARD KHAVKINE
Posted 7/31/20

Efforts by law-enforcement unions to keep the New York Civil Liberties Union from publishing cops’ disciplinary records were dealt a setback July 28 when a Manhattan Federal Judge revised her earlier restraining order, in effect permitting the publication of a trove of complaints against 81,000 past and present NYPD officers. 

But following the unions’ immediate appeal of U.S. District Judge Katherine Polk Failla’s ruling to the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit, that court issued a stay, precluding the civil liberties organization from publishing its cache of records. 

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