Adams v. Hirsch

Order and judgment (one paper), Supreme Court, New York County (Elliott Wilk, J.), entered December 6, 1990, which denied petitioner’s application pursuant to CPLR article 78 to compel respondents to provide a certain ballistics report and a reprint of a certain line-up photograph pursuant to petitioner’s requests therefor under the Freedom of Information Law, unanimously affirmed, without costs.

Under Public Officers Law § 89 (3), "[njothing in [the Freedom of Information Law] shall be construed to require any entity to prepare any record not possessed or maintained by such entity”. Inasmuch…