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October 24, 2006
FOIL follies I: City Planning's response a month overdue
From Atlantic Yards Report:
This is the first of four articles on Freedom of Information Law (FOIL) requests.
On July 26, I filed FOIL requests for Atlantic Yards-related documents with three city agencies and the Empire State Development Corporation (ESDC). The New York City Housing Development Corporation was the first to provide documents. The ESDC, after first ignoring my request, finally acknowledged it, then denied it, had it questioned, then reversed itself.
The Department of City Planning (DCP) has been dragging its feet. Though my request arrived the next day, and state law says that my request should've been acknowledged within five business days, the agency's response was issued on August 15, some 13 business days later.
Wanna bet what happened next?
Posted by lumi at October 24, 2006 9:13 AM