Should grisly crime scene photos and other records remain secret to protect the privacy of vitims and their families, or should such information be made public after the investigation to enable people to see that the police are not covering up what their government is doing?
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Bruce
'What are Connecticut officials trying to hide with regard to last year’s shootings at Sandy Hook Elementary School? That is the question raised by a Hartford Courant story indicating that top officials in the executive and legislative branches are secretly collaborating to draft a bill that would “withhold records related to the police investigation into the Dec. 14 Newtown elementary school massacre — including victims’ photos, tapes of 911 calls, and possibly more.”
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“Drafting bills in secret — without going through the committee and public hearing processes — is a terrible idea and not how democratic government is supposed to work. If keeping police records private is a good idea, why did the proposal’s backers feel the need to act in secret?”
In addition, with the “awesome power” that police have, “it is essential that the public be able to scrutinize police work, to keep police power in check,” the newspaper maintained.'
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