Legal Opinion
Lodge v. Knowlton
Supreme Court of New Hampshire
Decided September 18, 1978No. 78-097PublishedCited by 15 opinions
1Per curiam
This is an appeal under the Right to Know Law from a denial of public access to a State police investigative file. The plaintiff is a resident of the town of Wakefield who seeks to review the file prepared by the State police regarding a car accident involving a town police cruiser under the control of its chief of police, Michael Senecal. In his petition, the plaintiff asserted that the department of safety would release the accident and investigative report to the town selectmen if they so requested it and that the file was a public record subject to disclosure under RSA 91-A:4 and :5. The…
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