A murder victim’s son and a filmmaker sought homicide case files to create a documentary on the unsolved crime, but the Freedom of Information Commission’s decision to grant an information request was reversed by the Connecticut Supreme Court.
Although the high court affirmed the importance of transparency, it did not agree with the trial court and the FIC’s finding that the plaintiffs—the town of Madison, the police department and police chief—did not provide enough evidence beyond speculation that releasing certain documents would compromise the investigation of a 2010 homicide, the court said.
