The New York Police Department will no longer be posting “personnel orders,” saying they were in violation of state law, The New York Times reports. The postings, known within the NYPD as D.C.P.I., possess information on disciplinary actions taken against officers, and were used by journalists for decades. Section 50-a of the New York civil rights code states records on police officers used to evaluate performance are confidential information. Critics of the move say it limits public access to information about police actions and accountability. “It is not a transparency issue,” said Lawrence Byrne, the NYPD’s deputy commissioner for legal affairs. “It is not a change of policy. It is simply a mistake that D.C.P.I. is correcting because the state law prohibits us from disclosing that information.”
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