Hundreds of members of the music community, including artists, managers, publishers, trade groups, executives and record labels, signed an open letter Monday (June 8) calling for New York state to repeal statute 50-A, the state law that shields police officers’ personnel and disciplinary records from public view.
The decades-old law has long allowed misconduct and disciplinary records of police officers to remain hidden from public view, and its dissolution has become a key piece of calls for police reform in the weeks since the murder of George Floyd in Minneapolis in May. "We mourn the killing of George Floyd and the unnecessary loss of so many black lives before his," the letter states. "We must hold accountable those who violate the
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