The News-Times' Eileen FitzGerald has the latest on the dismissal on the ethics complaint filed against Police Commissioner Nick Ellis by First Selectman Robert Burke's campaign treasurer Dan Gaita.
The Ethics Commission tossed out a complaint against a local police commission member after about an hour's deliberation Tuesday night.
The commission met behind closed doors to decide if it would investigate a complaint resident Daniel Gaita filed against Nicholas Ellis.
The complaint charged Ellis with getting information he learned as a police commissioner and making it public.
Ellis was glad the complaint was dismissed but said he would have been happy to discuss the issues in public, too.
"I'm happy the ethics board found that I did nothing wrong,'' Ellis said. "I'm not happy the complaint was made against me. I feel I'm on the right side of the story."
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Ethics commission chairman John Kelly said the commission voted 4-1 to dismiss the complaint.
"We found no probable cause and dismissed it," Kelly said Wednesday.
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On September 26, 2007, ten plaintiffs filed suit in response to an arrest of aday laborers at a public park in Danbury, Connecticut. Plaintiffs amended their complaint on November 26, 2007.
The amended complaint states that plaintiffs sought to remedy the continued discriminatory and unauthorized enforcement of federal immigration laws against the Latino residents of the City of Danbury by Danbury's mayor and its police department.
Plaintiffs allege that the arrests violated their Fourth Amendment rights and the Connecticut Constitution because defendants conducted the arrests without valid warrants, in the absence of exigent circumstances, and without probable cause to believe that plaintiffs were engaged in unlawful activity. In addition, plaintiffs allege that defendants improperly stopped, detained, investigated, searched and arrested plaintiffs. Plaintiffs also allege that defendants violated their Fourteenth Amendment rights when they intentionally targeted plaintiffs, and arrested and detained them on the basis of their race, ethnicity and perceived national origin. Plaintiffs raise First Amendment, Due Process and tort claims.
Plaintiffs request declaratory relief, damages and attorneys fees.
On September 26, 2007, ten plaintiffs filed suit in response to an arrest of aday laborers at a public park in Danbury, Connecticut. Plaintiffs amended their complaint on November 26, 2007.
