Robert Freeman, the executive director of the New York State Committee on Open Government, writes in The New York Daily News that while anyone can use the state’s Freedom of Information Law to look up information about any state employee except for police officers or correction officers, who are exempt under section 50-a of the state Civil Rights Law. That law says that personnel records about police and correction officers that “are used to evaluate performance toward continued employment or promotion” are confidential. Freeman writes that the Committee on Open Government has recommended for years that the exemption from disclosure should be changed, as, under the current system, "the public has no right to know when a police or correction officer violates a rule or otherwise is found to have engaged in misconduct," Freeman writes. Read the full story in The Daily News.