Governor Cuomo Signs FOIL Fix

 

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)