“We need stricter and shorter deadlines for agencies to follow to ensure that [freedom of information] requests are fulfilled, transparency is met, and democracy is maintained.”
Yevgenia Albats, a Russian investigative reporter who is currently the Distinguished Journalist in Residence at the NYU Jordan Center, recently spoke to City Limits’ youth reporting interns about what it’s…
The Charter says the public advocate is to investigate “the effectiveness of the public information and service complaint programs of city agencies.” Will the next person to hold that job…
In many agencies with headcounts into the tens of thousands, only a handful of people are dedicated to the task of complying with Freedom of Information Law requests.
