Legal Opinion · Concurring in part, dissenting in part
Abdur-Rashid v. N.Y.C. Police Dep't
Court for the Trial of Impeachments and Correction of Errors
Decided March 29, 2018No. 19Published
1Concurring in part, dissenting in part
WILSON, J. (concurring in part and dissenting in part).
We have not before been asked whether a governmental agency may, in response to a Freedom of Information Law (Public Officers Law art 6 [FOIL] ) request, decline to confirm or deny the existence of documents. All of us agree that FOIL expresses New York's strong policy command that, subject to limited exceptions, government documents must be made available to the public; that FOIL differs from and is more powerful than FOIA ( 5 USC § 552 ), and that the public is not permitted to use FOIL to disrupt law enforcement operations. FOIL…
2Cases cited29 opinions
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- Watts v. IndianaSupreme Court of the United States · 1949
- Larson v. Department of StateCourt of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit · 2009
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