Thursday, October 27, 2016

Freedom of Information Commission Orders Release of Dash Cams showing Sandy Hook Evacuation.

Freedom of Information Commission Orders Release of Dash Cams showing Sandy Hook Evacuation.

"I think the unspoken bottom line is CSP's desire to prevent harm to Newtown families by releasing more Sandy Hook related documents is in direct conflict with Connecticut's extensive freedom of information laws." - Sandy Hook Facts



In an appeal brought by the leader of the Sandy Hook hoaxer conspiracy theorists, Wolfgang Halbig, Connecticut's Freedom of Information Commission has ordered Connecticut State Police (Dept. of Emergency Services) to release Dash Cam videos from the patrol cars assigned to Newtown Officers Seabrook, Lt. Sinko, Chapman, and Sgt. Bahamonde from 12-14-12, the date of the elementary school massacre.   CSP had seized copies of those videos as part of their Sandy Hook Investigation.  The "original" videos are digital and still in the possession of Newtown.

Mert Melfa covered the hearing:
https://youtu.be/OzCAgaG95dc



CSP refused to release the Seabrook and Sinko DVDs even though those videos were already released via Newtown FOI Request and are publicly available.

The Chapman and Bahamonde videos have not been released to the public and have only been viewed publicly by a few select members of the press.  Those two videos, if released unredacted, show extensive evacuation of children from the north east corner of the school.  Most children were evacuated from the north east exit.  

Newtown had refused to release the Bahamonde and Chapman videos to Sandy Hook Facts claiming a "minor's identity" exemption to the FOIA Law.   Interestingly, CSP did not attempt to argue that exemption applied versus Halbig.

Sandy Hook Facts will be seeking to obtain the dash cams from CSP if they are released to Halbig.

Wolfgang Halbig also sought the sworn statements of several Newtown officers.   Release of Newtown Police statements was denied based on Connecticut's "witness exemption" the FOIA law.

After Sandy Hook, Newtown Officers gave witness statements to Connecticut State Police Investigators. Summaries of these statements were released in the final report. Frankly, it seems kind of a stretch to apply a "witness statement exemption" to officer statements.  Taking that argument to it's logical conclusion, anytime Connecticut would want to keep an officer statement from public release, they could simply have CSP Investigators take the  statement and instant exemption!  That is somewhat of a stretch of transparency and public policy for public officials.   Halbig could appeal that ruling.

A couple of fly's in Halbig's victory soup.

CSP will likely appeal. CSP claimed the ruling in Altimari concerning property seized from Lanza's home somehow  applies to police dash cams. The Commission did not buy off on that argument and it is doubtful that argument would prevail in court as it is absurd and again defeats public policy on transparency in releasing police Dash Cams.  Frankly, the courts have consistently ordered police videos released and I don't think the courts are going to change course here bases on CSP's weak arguments.

It is conceivable Newtown could intervene on behalf of their town minors and potentially move to block the release on that basis.  Unfortunately, Newtown seems paralyzed when it comes to filings to protect Newtown's children from hoaxers. Let us hope that changes soon.

CSP could possibly heavily redact and obscure the Dash Cams on their own prior to their release, as they did with the dash cams released with the Sandy Hook Final Report.  CSP released three of their several dash cams in December 2013. All 3 downloadable dash cam videos were heavily redacted and provided in horrible quality.

If the videos are actually released, the Bahamonde and Chapman videos could silence a few Sandy Hook conspiracy theorists who say there was no evacuation that day.

No Halbig circus this time
As to the hearing itself, Kay Wilson appeared for Halbig.  Halbig did not appear thus sparing us the unprofessional  "Bad monkey in the zoo" sideshow he typically puts on. We had no children or families intimidated; we had no outbursts; no tantrums; no running around in circles. No rubber duck nonsense or blowing his nose on Sandy Hook type shirts. No reports of filming of children at elementary schools. Without Halbig's incessant tantrums and childish interruptions, Kay Wilson was actually able to present a lucid, intelligent, and well thought out argument.  I actually agreed with most of her arguments.  




It would be a relief, not to mention a much better use of donor money, if Sandy Hook Justice left children and families alone, stopped ridiculous anti-free speech lawsuits of bloggers, and would just seek release of government documents.  

I think the unspoken bottom line is CSP's desire to prevent harm to Newtown families by releasing more Sandy Hook related documents is in direct conflict with Connecticut's extensive freedom of information laws.

 Will Halbig have enough money to pursue the request through appeal or did he blow all his donor's money on lawsuits vs bloggers, chasing non-existent documents, and "Secret witness fees" from items out of the final report?

More documents have been released on the Sandy Hook shooting than any other shooting in history, with the exception of the Columbine Massacre.
SandyHookFacts.com strongly opposes exclusive release of these DVD to Wolfgang Halbig due to the potentional Halbig could incorporate them into a profit making scheme, such as with his upcoming "for profit" book.  Any documents released to Halbig should be released to all because public interest would favor not having a money seeking conspiracy theorist like Halbig not have exclusive control of information.

Currently, Halbig is in exclusive possession of hundreds of work orders proving Sandy Hook was fully operational. Halbig is also in exclusive possession of hundreds of emails from Dawn Hochsprung that also disprove the idiotic Sandy Hook conspiracy theories. Halbig offers only edited, controlled release of a few out of context samples of these documents and only the ones that support his narrative. Any documents that do not support Halbig's narrative are not released.

Newtown will not release the documents to anyone else without payment. At $.50 a page, that could be quite a bit of money to throw at these documents.    In this way Newtown has inadvertently given Halbig a monopoly on that information; which is a travesty.  

Altimari
Update on Altimari appeal - the appeal is ongoing in the briefing stage. When there is something to report, Sandy Hook Facts will provide an update. 
http://sandyhookanalysis.blogspot.com/2016/04/court-rules-against-releasing-sandy.html


Update -Sandy Hook Hoaxer Tony Mead invents instant lie to spread
Not satisfied to simply report the facts to his followers, even with good news, hoaxer Tony Mead, of Hollywood, Florida again proved his blatant dishonesty by announcing that "All Dash Cams" were being released.  When another user pointed out only four Newtown dash cams were ordered released, Tony Mead quickly deleted the comment.

The fact is, as stated above, only the Newtown Dash Cams were at issue in the ruling.

Tony's lie:


versus facts from the ruling:




3 comments:

Anonymous said...

"If the videos are actually released, the Bahamonde and Chapman videos could silence a few Sandy Hook conspiracy theorists who say there was no evacuation that day."

Let's be honest here: nothing will silence them. They'll move the goalposts. The children will become "actors" or even "CGI" (the video equivalent to the all-powerful "Photoshop").

SandyHookFacts.com said...

the dishonest ones will.. as they always do. very true!

Anonymous said...

No, they will just fall back and say, "We were just asking questions...", as though they aren't really implying they believe this never happened. They're isn't an honest HoaxTard in the bunch.

Since when did a family, a town, a state have to prove to a bunch of deluded morons...that a tragic event like this really happened?

Disgusting.