Bridgeport police reform group to consider making meetings public
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BRIDGEPORT A group of elected officials, city staff and activists meeting about policing reforms may have to either reconsider how they do business or dissolve to avoid breaking state Freedom of Information rules.
“We’re going to speak to the working group and decide what next steps they want to take,” said City Council President Aidee Nieves, who recently organized the effort with Councilman Scott Burns. “The decision will be made by the entirety of the group.”
In an effort to further the council’s previously stated goal of improving the police department and officers’ relations with the community, Nieves and Burns convened a 10-person “collaborative” with representatives from Mayor Joe Ganim’s office, the police force, the police commission, the health department, FaithActs for Education, the Greater Br