In the first significant judicial test of whether the state’s broader trial-discovery laws could ease public access to police officers’ personnel files, a Westchester County Judge has ruled that prosecutors, and by extension defense attorneys, are not entitled to view the records.
Police unions in Westchester County succeeded in quashing subpoenas seeking officers’ records in connection with an upcoming manslaughter trial, maintaining that their personnel files are protected from disclosure by state Civil Rights Law Section 50a, which precludes the public release of those records.
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