In testimony delivered in quick succession Monday to two legislative committees, Senate President Pro Tem Donald E. Williams Jr., D‑Brooklyn, strongly condemned post-Newtown legislation that would restrict public access to 9 – 1‑1 recordings, police photographs and names of witnesses in drug or violent crimes.
“If enacted, this would result in an unprecedented denial of previously available information, with no necessary relation to witnesses being threatened or endangered, and no relation to the security of an investigation,” Williams said. “It is a suppression of information for its own sake.”
It was just one opinion, but it came from the only leader who can singlehandedly block legislation from coming to a vote in the Senate. Williams made a point of testifying before both committees where two similar bills are pending.
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