Legal Opinion
Gould v. New York City Police Department
New York Court of Appeals
Decided November 26, 1996PublishedCited by 229 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
OPINION OF THE COURT
ClPARICK, J.
The three separate proceedings on appeal all involve petitioners’ efforts, pursuant to the Freedom of Information Law (FOIL), to obtain documents relating to their arrests from the New York City Police Department. In response to petitioners’ FOIL requests, the Police Department furnished assorted documents to petitioners, but refused to disclose complaint *273follow-up reports (commonly referred to as DBS’s) and police activity logs (commonly referred to as memo books). We hold that the complaint follow-up reports are not categorically exempt from disclosure as…
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