Freedom From Information: Government Transparency Nosedives Under Eric Adams

Freedom From Information: Government Transparency Nosedives Under Eric Adams

Under Mayor Eric Adams, Freedom of Information Law requests are lingering in limbo for months and sometimes years, according to a new analysis from the good government group Reinvent Albany. The group examined all of the records that were in the City's FOIL system in 2024 to come up with their findings. The biggest offenders? The Mayor's Office, which took an average of 283 days to close out a FOIL request, and the Department of Correction, whic…

Report: New York City Government Flouting Freedom of Information Law - Reinvent Albany

New Report Shows FOIL Requests and Delays Skyrocketing: NYC Gets Roughly 170,000 FOIL Requests a Year   16% of FOIL Requests Still Open After a Year   Executive SummaryNew York City’s Freedom of Information Law (FOIL) process needs a major overhaul. Despite improvements made a decade ago to create the current OpenRecords portal, agencies are not keeping up with the number of requests coming in, and some don’t even use the portal to manage FOIL…