The public postings sprung from the state Legislature’s repeal in 2020 of a section of state Civil Rights Law known as 50-a that city and state officials for years cited to deny access to uniformed officers’ disciplinary records.
But some law-enforcement agencies are refusing to release documents, arguing that doing so would compromise ongoing investigations or that records created before the law’s repeal are not subject to disclosure. Some have also denied access by saying that the records were compiled with the understanding that they would never be released.
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