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Oral arguments being heard as news organizations seek info in Jo'Anna Bird case

Copy of an undated photo of Jo'Anna Bird

Photo credit: Handout | Copy of an undated photo of Jo'Anna Bird with her children.

A federal appeals court judge considering the secrecy of a Nassau police-misconduct report said he was baffled over why county legislators were forced to sign a court's confidentiality agreement before being allowed to see a report the county had itself produced.

"I'm a little puzzled," said the judge, Gerard E. Lynch of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit, in a case over whether...

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