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Connecticut Restricts Prisoners’ FOIA Requests
Loaded on Jan. 15, 2011
by David Reutter
published in Prison Legal News
January, 2011, page 30
by David M. Reutter
Filed under:
Federal Statutory Law,
Freedom of Information Act,
State Legislation.
Location:
Connecticut.
Last year, Connecticut enacted an exemption to the state’s Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) that prevents disclosure of certain records requested by “any individual committed to the custody or supervision of the Commissioner of Correction or confined in a facility of the Whiting Forensic Division of ...
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