Attorney @Proloy for State Police Union to judge: Change would lead to unfounded and frivolous complaints against troopers becoming public. Says provision violates US Constitution's Contracts Clause. Says law was designed as an end-run around the State Police contract
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Union attorney: What's the point of a contract if lawmakers can just void it for any reason?
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Judge says the issue is whether the state is acting as a private party reneging on a contract -- or is it governing?
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State Police Union attorney: Prelim injunction necessary bc once those "unfounded" disciplinary records are released, troopers will suffer "irreparable harm." Essentially, the cat is out of the bag at that point
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Now it's the CT Attorney General's turn. They're arguing the Contracts Clause doesn't apply bc the change doesn't substantially change the State Police contract State AG's office: Making disciplinary records public is a "reasonable means to achieve state interest"
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State AG's office: This is whole reason CT has a Freedom of Information Act
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They're saying the state has the right to pass "regulatory" laws and Contracts Clause applies to purely contractual issues like pay & benefits: "Plaintiffs had no reasonable expectations that the state couldn't act in the public interest to change the provision"
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