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Pastimes : Murder Mystery: Who Killed Yale Student Suzanne Jovin?
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To: Jeffrey S. Mitchell who wrote (967)9/23/2001 7:09:28 PM
From: Jeffrey S. Mitchell  Read Replies (1) of 1397
 
Re: 9/11/01 - Hartford Courant: Release The Jovin File

Release The Jovin File
Hartford Courant Editorial
September 11, 2001

Barbara Housen of the state Freedom of Information Commission erred in recommending that the police file on the murder of Yale University student Suzanne Jovin ought to remain sealed.

On Dec. 4, 1998, Ms. Jovin was found stabbed to death two miles from the campus. The police named James Van de Velde, a Yale professor, as a suspect. Although Mr. Van de Velde was forced out of Yale, neither he nor any other suspect has been charged.

In April, both The Courant and Jeffrey Mitchell, a friend of Mr. Van de Velde's, invoked the Freedom of Information Act to compel the police to release information in the file.

The information could throw light on what the police did or didn't do to find the killer. But Ms. Housen bought the police line that disclosure would compromise the investigation by revealing the identities of informants and witnesses.

That argument is unpersuasive. An adequate recourse would have been to order that the names of witnesses and informants be blotted out before the documents are released.

Police have had nearly three years to crack the case, with nothing to show for it. Ms. Housen should have concluded that further concealing the contents of the file is unreasonable and undermines the public's right to be informed.

The full commission should reject her recommendation - and affirm that the information in the Jovin file belongs in the public domain.

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