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CAPITAL NEWSPAPERS v. BURNS

67 N.Y.2d 562 (1986)

In the Matter of Capital Newspapers Division of the Hearst Corporation et al., Respondents, v. T. Garry Burns, as Records Access Officer for the Albany City Police Department, et al., Respondents, and James Tuffey, Intervenor-Appellant.

Court of Appeals of the State of New York.

Decided July 3, 1986.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Mark T. Walsh, Jr., for intervenor-appellant.

Peter L. Danziger, Salvatore D. Ferlazzo and Thomas F. Gleason for Capital Newspapers Division of the Hearst Corporation and another, respondents.

Robert Abrams, Attorney-General (Frank K. Walsh, Robert Hermann and Peter H. Schiff of counsel), for the Division of State Police and another, amici curiae.

Chief Judge WACHTLER and Judges MEYER, KAYE, ALEXANDER, TITONE and HANCOCK, JR., concur.

SIMONS, J.

Petitioner Cipriano is a newspaper reporter. In the course of investigating administrative and fiscal procedures in the City of Albany, he was informed that certain members of the Albany police force were abusing the sick leave privileges accorded them by the collective bargaining agreement their union had negotiated with the city. He attempted to verify this information by a series of requests under...

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