Brown v. Town of Amherst
Appellate Division of the Supreme Court of the State of New York
1Opinion of the Court
Order unanimously reversed on the law without costs and matter remitted to Supreme Court for further proceedings in accordance with the following Memorandum: Supreme Court erred by denying summarily plaintiff’s demands for records of the Amherst Police Department’s investigation into the murder of plaintiff’s decedent. "FOIL imposes a broad standard of open disclosure upon government agencies and all records are presumptively available for public inspection and copying unless they fall within one of FOIL’S eight exemptions * * *. The statutory exemptions are to be narrowly interpreted and the…
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