City Must Tell Newspaper About Cozy Ticket Plan

[The Straight Story]

City Must Tell Newspaper About Cozy Ticket Plan
By JEFF D. GORMAN
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(CN) - The city of Albany cannot keep a newspaper from learning the identities of citizens who received "no-fine" parking tickets, a New York appeals court ruled.

The Hearst Corp. sued the city of behalf its Albany Times Union newspaper and reporter Brendan Lyons.

Lyons' investigation revealed that city employees, politically connected citizens and their families received tickets that did not carry a fine.

The city refused the reporter's Freedom of Information Law request, and Hearst took the matter to court.

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Albany had also argued that disclosing the names on the list would cause "an unwarranted invasion of personal privacy" and that the people on the list would be "offended" by the public learning of their inclusion on it.

http://www.courthousenews.com/2011/11/04/41215.htm

[abelenkpe]

1. One law for small folks and another for the well connected nt

[dtexdem]

2. Ooh, cozy tickets sound so nice and friendly!

Let's all go visit Albany. ;-)

[onethatcares]

3. wouldn't want to offend the swells now,would we?

what part of tax payer funded law enforcement don't these people understand?