“Blanket Secrecy” or Confidentiality? NY Court Probes Parole Board’s Victim-Statement Rule

[susie day]

Brian Lee, NY Law Journal / Law.com — A New York appeals court on Wednesday wrestled with the issue of how much the state Parole Board must tell incarcerated people about confidential victim- impact statements considered in parole decisions, with one justice probing whether the state's policy amounts to blanket secrecy or presumptive confidentiality that can be overcome case by case...