State Tax Department worker researched GOP official who filed FOIL request
A state tax official conducted a background research on a Republican party official after receiving a public information request, the Daily News has learned. Without mentioning his job, Joe Uddo, who...
View ArticleCuomo's office tightly controls public records
Gov. Andrew Cuomo took office four years ago promising the most transparent administration in history, but journalists and advocacy groups say his office instead tightly controls requests for public...
View ArticleEDITORIAL: Cuomo administration blocks transparency
Forty years ago, the New York State Legislature adopted the Freedom of Information Law (FOIL) and declared the government needed to be 'responsive and responsible to the public,' but most of all that...
View ArticleEditorial: The People's Law Turns 40
The other day, a local woman approached a Gazette editor and regaled him with tales of her experience trying to get information from a local government. She complained that her request for information...
View ArticleFOIL'd: The pursuit of open records in New York
Headquarters for New York City’s health and police departments are separated by the East River, but they might as well be worlds apart when it comes to transparency. In December, identical public...
View ArticleNew records gained under legislative FOIL would likely be minimal in New York
A provision in New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo’s budget proposal to fully subject the Legislature to the Freedom of Information Law would be unlikely to lead to a torrent of new records being made...
View ArticleFoiled by FOIL: How NYC agency has dragged out a request for public records...
Ten months ago, three teenaged boys who had escaped from a group home in Brooklyn were arrested for the violent assault and rape of a woman in Manhattan. The boys had been placed in the home as part...
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