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Nassau's fight for police secrecy is wrong

May 30, 2012 10:41 PM By JOYE BROWN joye.brown@newsday.com

Late Nassau County Legis. and Presiding Officer Peter

Photo credit: Howard Schnapp | Late Nassau County Legis. and Presiding Officer Peter Schmitt. (Oct. 12, 2011)

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Peter Schmitt, presiding officer of Nassau County's legislature, is due in federal court today to face contempt charges for disclosing information from an internal police investigation. But he won't be represented by the county attorney.

That's because the county attorney -- at the behest of Nassau's police officers' union -- drew up a confidentiality agreement Schmitt is alleged to have violated.

Schmitt...

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