Newsday Inc. v. State Department of Transportation

OPINION OF THE COURT

Mercure, J.

This proceeding challenges respondent’s authority to deny a request made pursuant to the Freedom of Information Law (hereinafter FOIL; see Public Officers Law art 6) by petitioner’s employee, a journalist, for a copy of certain lists and data that respondent is obligated to keep in compliance with the federal highway Hazard Elimination Program (see 23 USC § 152). Specifically, petitioner seeks respondent’s priority investigation location and priority investigation intersection lists, which were compiled to identify hazardous intersections and highway locations…