BETHEL 2009: Complaint against Police Commissioner dismissed

The News-Times' Eileen FitzGerald has the latest on the dismissal on the ethics complaint filed against Police Commissioner Nick Ellis by First Selectman Robert Burke's campaign treasurer Dan Gaita.

The Ethics Commission tossed out a complaint against a local police commission member after about an hour's deliberation Tuesday night.

The commission met behind closed doors to decide if it would investigate a complaint resident Daniel Gaita filed against Nicholas Ellis.

The complaint charged Ellis with getting information he learned as a police commissioner and making it public.

Ellis was glad the complaint was dismissed but said he would have been happy to discuss the issues in public, too.

"I'm happy the ethics board found that I did nothing wrong,'' Ellis said. "I'm not happy the complaint was made against me. I feel I'm on the right side of the story."

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Ethics commission chairman John Kelly said the commission voted 4-1 to dismiss the complaint.

"We found no probable cause and dismissed it," Kelly said Wednesday.