Floyd Police Reform Law Survives Union Challenge at 2nd Cir. (1)

A police union lost its bid to block a Connecticut law designed to promote transparency and accountability in law enforcement that was passed in response to nationwide protests over a Minneapolis police officer’s murder of George Floyd.

The Connecticut State Police Union shouldn’t get a preliminary injunction freezing the law because it couldn’t prevail on the merits of its constitutional challenge, the US Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit said in its ruling Thursday.

The law, which nullified the restriction on releasing disciplinary records in the state trooper union’s collective bargaining agreement, served the legitimate purposes of ensuring police ...