A day after Hartford State’s Attorney Gail P. Hardy returned from a suspension for leaving deadly police shooting investigations open for upwards of 11 years, the state’s Criminal Justice Commission will review and possibly vote Friday on whether or not she will be reappointed as the top law enforcement official in the Hartford area.
Hardy, the first Black state’s attorney, was suspended for four days last week and returned to work on Thursday. Her eight-year term ends this month.
Prominent organizations, including both the statewide and Hartford chapters of the NAACP, the ACLU of Connecticut and the Greater Hartford Interdenominational Ministerial Alliance, issued a letter calling for the commission to deny Hardy’s reappointment, citing delays in deadly police use of force investigations, failure to pursue hate crime charges and reluctance to consider sentence modification requests.