The Hartford Courant took a potentially groundbreaking electronic data case to the Connecticut Supreme Court Jan. 18, but it may make slow progress due to a lack of prior spadework.
The newspaper is attempting to get the state police to let it buy the whole database of 815,000 criminal records in its computers. Three years ago, when Courant staff writer Jack Dolan asked the Department of Public Safety for the records, the agency multiplied its files by the statutory $25 fee per record and came up with a whopping $20 million proposed bill.
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