Last week the Connecticut Freedom of Information Commission set a November 21 date for a hearing on my complaint against the Stamford Police Department for failure to release the June 29, 2007, videotaped interrogation of Matthew Greenberg, the “Benoit Wikipedia hacker.”
Through the commission ombudsman, I told Stamford’s assistant city corporation counsel, Michael S. Toma, that a contested hearing could still be forestalled. I suggested a settlement formula whereby I would acquire the video without compromising a future defense by the police of the state FOI issue raised by our dispute. Specifically, Stamford PD would “send a complete, faithful, non-defective copy of the subject record to the Fayette County (Georgia) Sheriff’s Office by a date certain, while so informing both that office and myself. I then would ask the hearing officer to stay our case pending my receiving a copy … from the Fayette County sheriff (as that office has independently promised it would do).”
Irv Muchnick