BUFFALO, N.Y. — Some state lawmakers want to roll back a prior legislature move to fully open police disciplinary records in the wake of police misconduct cases.

They say it went too far without civil rights protection for officers from bogus allegations of wrongdoing which might be used against them.

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In 2020 following widely reported police misconduct cases, the New York state legislature voted to repeal Civil Rights Law 50-a which was originally intended to protect police officers and other first responders from the use of their records as a form of harassment against them - perhaps by someone they arrested or even in litigation against them.

NYS Assemblyman Patrick Chludzinski,

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