| After CCRB Releases 81000
Officer Discipline Records Union Complains to
SDNY Judge Failla
By Matthew
Russell Lee, Patreon
BBC
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UK - Honduras
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SDNY COURTHOUSE,
July 22 – Police, Fire and
other unions have sued to
block the release of
complaints against their
members now the New York Civil
Rights Act Section 50-a has
been repealed.
The case was
removed to Federal court by
the City. On July 22 U.S.
District Court for the
Southern District of New York
Judge Katherine Polk Failla
held a proceeding. Inner City
Press live tweeted some of it:
Judge
Failla: If I call 3-1-1
tomorrow and complain against
a police officer, that's not
being disclosed, right?
Answer: Right. Or, there's a
distinction between NYPD and
CCRB.
Judge Failla: And
on CCRB? Answer: They've
released officer
histories. Judge Failla:
And Corrections Officers?
Answer: The Dep't
of Corrections will create a
website limited to
substantiated allegations.
The unions are
being represented by Anthony
Coles of DLA Piper. He: I am
startled CCRB released records
of 81,000 officers
Coles: We need
discovery on how those CCRB
disclosures were made. We
propose expedited document
production. What are they
planning to produce? What's
been said here is different
that what the Mayor has said
in press conference, that he's
releasing everything
Now Rebecca Quinn
of NYC Corporation Counsel
says that collective
bargaining agreement allows
officers to seek to expunge
unsubstantiated complaints
from the personnel files - not
necessarily the OATH website
(which Coles referred to as
"dusty")
Coles says,
NYPD promoting unsubstantiated
allegations on the Internet
will stigmatic the officers.
Asks that it be enjoined
pending arbitration under the
Collective Bargaining
Agreement(s).
Coles said it is
suspicious that a July 9 FOIL
request for the 81,000
officers' records was
fulfilled on July
14.
The case is
Uniformed Fire Officers
Association et al. v. DeBlasio
et al., 20-cv-5441 (Failla)
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