Brady v. Executive Department, Division of Parole

Appeal from an order of the Supreme Court at Special Term (Hughes, J.), entered February 19, 1985 in Albany County, which denied petitioner’s motion for leave to renew a prior proceeding brought pursuant to CPLR article 78 which was dismissed.

Petitioner, an inmate at Green Haven Correctional Facility, was denied parole in August 1983. In the course of appealing that denial, he made a request for disclosure of records under the State’s Freedom of Information Law (Public Officers Law §§87, 89). Petitioner’s request was ultimately dismissed for reasons not material to this appeal.

Petitioner…