Legal Opinion
Capital Newspapers Division of the Hearst Corp. v. Burns
New York Court of Appeals
Decided July 3, 1986PublishedCited by 215 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
OPINION OF THE COURT
Simons, J.
Petitioner Cipriano is a newspaper reporter. In the course of investigating administrative and fiscal procedures in the City of Albany, he was informed that certain members of the Albany police force were abusing the sick leave privileges accorded them by the collective bargaining agreement their union had negotiated with the city. He attempted to verify this information by a series of requests under the Freedom of Information Law (FOIL; Public Officers Law art 6) through which he sought access to police records containing "statistical or factual tabulations of…
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