2019-2024 Form

Instructions and help about DOM OF INFORMATION FOIL

the freedom of information law or foil is new york's open records law it allows any person to request that a state agency or a local body or any government entity provide them with access to a public record which is generally any document held or kept by an agency i a journalist use the foil all the time in my reporting but any person with an interest in the inner workings of their government can use the foil to obtain a public document the first step in filing a foil request is to figure out what kind of records you want to access in the first place these could be as simple or routine as a budget document or a village board resolution but they could be as complicated as a data set maintained by a state department next you should try to determine which agency has custody of the records you're seeking sometimes this will be as simple as a police department which has custody of records dealing with incidents that occur in their jurisdiction but for more complicated records you might need