Legal Opinion
Westchester Rockland Newspapers, Inc. v. Kimball
New York Court of Appeals
Decided July 3, 1980PublishedCited by 68 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
*578OPINION OF THE COURT
Fuchsberg, J.
In the context of a request for disclosure of records of a volunteer fire department, this appeal calls upon us to further explore the reach of the Freedom of Information Law (Public Officers Law, art 6). A subsidiary question treats with the exemption the statute provides for matters constituting an unwarranted invasion of privacy (Public Officers Law, § 87, subd 2, par [b]).
The controversy out of which this case arose began when a staff writer for the Ossining Citizen Register, a subsidiary of petitioner Westchester Rockland Newspapers, called upon the chief…
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