By Kenneth Girardin
Governor Andrew Cuomo has signed a bill
that marks the most substantial improvement to the Freedom of
Information Law in years, limiting the amount of time that public
entities can stall a FOIL request after a judge has ordered the release
of public records.
Government agencies now have nine
months to appeal a judge’s order—meaning they can wait for the
equivalent of a full human gestation period, and then either seek to
overturn the order in a higher court or release the records anyway.
Under the new law sponsored by
Senator Michael Ranzenhofer and Assemblyman David Buchwald, that time
period will now be limited to sixty days.
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Source: NY Torch (via The Empire Report)
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