COURT DECISION
Jan 22, 2008 - State Supreme Court Justice Judith Gische has ruled that New York City Department of Education can proceed their investigation of whether field trips to Cuba by high school students and the department's employees violated any local laws.
The group that helped organize the trips - the Inter-Religious Foundation for Community Organization Inc., aided by the ACLU, tried to squash supoenas issued by Richard J. Condon, Special Vommissioner of Investigation for the city's Board of Education.
TT - The school is the Beacon School. Previous coverage of the investigation here. In 2006, the students took a trip to Venezuela to show "solidarity" with Hugo Chavez.
Special Commissioner of Investigation for the New York City School District site.
As well as the authority to issue supoenas, Special Commissioner Richard J. Condon can also arrest. The office recently released statistics on their 2007 investigations. PDF
