Lynch v. City of Troy

OPINION OF THE COURT

Michael C. Lynch, J.

Petitioner commenced this CPLR article 78 proceeding to challenge respondent’s response to her request for documents in accordance with the Freedom of Information Law (Public Officers Law § 84 et seq. [hereinafter FOIL]). Respondent contends that petitioner is not entitled to the documents because the records are exempt from disclosure.

On December 16, 2008, petitioner’s 21-year-old son John Francis Curry was found in his apartment, the victim of a fatal gunshot wound. On February 13, 2009, the Rensselaer County Medical Examiner determined that John’s…