Open records

After a hearing officer from Connecticut's Freedom of Information Commission recommended that 911 calls related to the Sandy Hook Elementary School shooting  in Newtown be released, a prosecutor has objected on the grounds, among others, that the commission does not have jurisdiction and that the recommendation would violate a new state law exempting many records of the shooting from the right-to-know arena. The media outlets seeking the information want to examine how law enforcement responded to the school shooting. The full commission will hear the case later this month.

As Cory Booker looks poised to move from Newark's mayor's office to the U.S. Senate, the conservative publication National Review has said it is going to sue Booker to obtain records related to a 2004 homicide of a teenager who the mayor said he held in his arms until the adolescent's death from a gunshot. A mayoral spokesman said the records would be provided today, The Washington Post reported.