MATTER OF CAPITAL NEWSPAPERS DIVISION OF THE HEARST-CORPORATION v. CITY OF ALBANY


63 A.D.3d 1336 (2009)

881 N.Y.S.2d 214

In the Matter of CAPITAL NEWSPAPERS DIVISION OF THE HEARST CORPORATION et al., Appellants, v. CITY OF ALBANY et al., Respondents.

Appellate Division of the Supreme Court of New York, Third Department.

Decided June 11, 2009.


Kane, J.

In January 2006, petitioner Brendan Lyons, a senior writer for the Albany Times Union, filed two requests under the Freedom of Information Law (see Public Officers Law art 6 [hereinafter FOIL]) with respondent City of Albany. The FOIL requests sought documents pertaining to the alleged use of official Albany Police Department channels to purchase military-style assault rifles for personal, nonofficial use by a number of individual police officers in...

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