Capital Newspapers Division of Hearst Corp. v. Burns
Appellate Division of the Supreme Court of the State of New York
1Opinion of the Court
OPINION OF THE COURT
Mahoney, P. J.
A reporter for petitioner Capital Newspapers Division of the Hearst Corporation was allegedly given information that certain Albany City Police Officers were abusing their sick leave privileges. He sought to substantiate this information and requested certain records from the Albany City Police Department pursuant to the Freedom of Information Law (Public Officers Law art 6). The request was for “records which contain statistical or factual tabulations of data of number of days [and] dates absent from scheduled employment” for James Tuffey, a detective,…
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