City drops FOIA-blocking bill
Just days after proposing a controversial measure that would allow municipalities to reject Freedom of Information Act requests, Mayor John DeStefano Jr.'s administration backed away from the proposal Tuesday morning.
The bill, which was inspired by last month's defeat of the city's Long Wharf mall proposal, would have allowed New Haven to prevent the release of information regarding future redevelopment projects to corporate competitors. The city believed the mall was sunk under a barrage of information requests from Westfield America, which owns malls in southern...
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