RSS Feeds  Conn. gov. signs bill restricting Newtown photos
Wednesday - 6/5/2013, 9:00pm  ET  Associated Press  HARTFORD,
Conn. (AP) -- Gov. Dannel P. Malloy signed legislation into law
Wednesday that prevents the public release of crime scene photos
and video evidence from the Connecticut school shootings that
took the lives of 20 first graders and six school employees.
The new law, a result of efforts to balance private and public
interests, creates an exemption to the state's Freedom of
Information Act and applies to homicides in Connecticut.  The
law prevents the release of photographs, film, video and other
images depicting a homicide victim if those records "could
reasonably be expected to constitute an unwarranted invasion of
the personal privacy of the victim or the victim's surviving
family members."  Malloy signed the bill hours after the General
Assembly approved the eleventh-hour compromise during the early
morning hours of the final day of the state legislative session.
Malloy said he believes