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Question of the Day By LARRY NEUMEISTER - Associated Press - Monday, February 1, 2021
NEW YORK (AP) - The Hartford Courant triumphed Monday in its challenge to a Connecticut law sealing some juvenile court proceedings, including records in Kennedy cousin Michael Skakel‘s murder case.
The 2nd U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals in Manhattan said a 2019 Connecticut law that kept secret the identities of juveniles when their cases were transferred to adult court was written too broadly to be constitutional, and the First Amendment requires a presumption of disclosure in these instances unless it can be proven confidentiality is necessary.
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University Heights police Officer Darryl Tucker on Jan. 20 demonstrates the department s Panasonic body camera clipped to his uniform. (Jim Slosiarek/The Gazette)
This still photo from the Jan. 6, 2015, body camera video of Burlington police Officer Jesse Hill shows Autumn Steele, 34, seconds before Hill accidentally shot and killed her during a domestic incident in her yard.
This body camera video from the Maquoketa Police Department shows Drew Edwards, in the white shirt, being held on the ground by police after being Tasered. Edwards later died.
In-car dashboard camera video shows the seconds before Polk County Lt. Brandon Bracelin fatally shot Isaiah Hayes, who was running from officers with a realistic-looking BB gun in his hand, in 2018.
Michael Skakel arrives to a courthouse in Stamford on Oct. 30, 2020. (AP Photo/Seth Wenig)
MANHATTAN (CN) Denying the public access to felony juvenile records for cases tried in adult court is unconstitutional, the Second Circuit affirmed Monday.
The 30-page, unsigned opinion sides with the Hartford Courant, Connecticut’s largest daily newspaper, in its challenge to state limits on who can access high-profile juvenile matters, including that of Kennedy cousin Michael Skakel.
Part of a 2019 amendment to Connecticut’s Juvenile Transfer Act, the confidentiality rule pertains to cases where a defendant between ages 15 and 18 is charged with certain felonies, including murder, armed robbery and rape. Though the defendant is subject to the full range of penalties and procedures of adult court, wherein records are typically accessible to the public, only victims and their family members can access the records in these cases unless the criminal defendant was found or pleaded gu
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The new acting head of the U.S. Agency for Global Media this week approved several J-1 visa applications for foreign journalists working for Voice of America, one of the networks it oversees. The applications are the first to be approved by the agency since June last year.
USAGM leader Kelu Chao, whom the Biden administration appointed in an acting capacity last Wednesday, approved the renewal applications for journalists in several VOA language services in the Africa, East Asia, South Asia and Eurasia divisions.
FILE - The U.S. Agency for Global Media logo at Voice of America, in Washington, D.C., Nov. 22, 2019. (VOA)