The New York State Court of Appeals ruled this week-end that the City of New York need not make public a three-year-old report on charges that former Correction Commissioner Williams had discriminated against Jewish employees of his department. The court action had been brought by the American Jewish Congress and was lost in lower state courts prior to being turned down by the highest state tribunal.
In 1951 the then mayor, Vincent Impellitteri, ordered Investigations Commissioner James H. Shells to study the charges. Eight months later Commissioner Sheils wrote a report which cleared Commissioner Williams. Mayor Impellitteri refused to reveal the contents of the report, stating merely that Commissioner Williams had been cleared.
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