New Britain Progressive Publishing Police Blotter

The New Britain Progressive newspaper, as part of its community news coverage in New Britain, is publishing the New Britain Police blotter.

The city began publishing the police blotter in August, after a controversy in which another publication was denied free access the police logs. At least one City Council member suggested that the city Police’s disapproval of press editorial policies contributed to revoked free access for the press to the Police blotter, while other Council members pressed for public access to the information. Because of the incident, the New Britain Racial Justice Coalition had filed a formal Freedom of Information request to gain public access to the police records. The city then decided to publish weekly blotter reports on its website.

The police blotter can be found at newbritainindependent.com/police-blotter, where police blotter entries are regularly published, and remain published, even after no longer appearing on the city Police website.

A link to the blotter also appears on the New Britain Progressive‘s front page and in articles.

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