Mulgrew v. Board of Education
Appellate Division of the Supreme Court of the State of New York
1Opinion of the Court
*507Supreme Court improperly reviewed respondents’ determination to release the requested reports under the “arbitrary and capricious” standard set forth in CPLR 7803 (3). The court should have determined whether respondents’ determination “was affected by an error of law” (CPLR 7803 [3]). In any event, the matter need not be remanded since respondents properly determined that the requested reports should be released under FOIL (cf. Matter of Verizon N.Y., Inc. v Devita, 60 AD3d 956, 957 [2009]).
Public agency records, like the ones at issue here, are presumptively open for public inspection and…
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