Mayor Bill de Blasio has a record of fighting for freedom of information. As Public Advocate, he introduced two bills to get city agencies to release more information to the public. Last April, he ...

Transparency is a critical tool for a functioning democracy. Now more than ever, we have a duty to reinforce trust between government and citizens – exactly what Freedom of Information Law was ...

KINGSTON, N.Y. — The city’s Common Council is set to vote in October on a request from the Corporation Counsel to add a full-time “public records coordinator” to handle a growing number of Freedom of ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. After a few weeks of failing to follow the state's current requirements for accepting formal requests for public documents and ...

Filing a request under the Freedom of Information Law (FOIL) or simply checking the status of a request, could get easier if a new bill being introduced this week to the New York City Council becomes ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. New York's Committee on Open Government believes all public agencies in the state should accept Freedom of Information Law ...

Sgt. Jordan Mazur spent eight years deciding what the public could — and couldn’t — know about the NYPD. Now, he’s written a how-to guide for prying records out of government agencies’ hands. New York ...

Scott Mollen discusses the land use case 'Weinstock v. NYS Urban Dev. Corp.," dealing with a FOIL request. He writes: "This case is of interest because many opponents of large projects file FOIL ...