New state legislation is being drafted to require state agencies to comply with the section of the open-records law that calls for posting information online.
Part of New York’s Freedom of Information Law requires each state agency to maintain up-to-date “subject matter lists” — indexes of all records maintained by the agency — and to post them on the Internet.
A study by The Ithaca Journal of 86 state agencies, published in a March 15 Watchdog Report, found 79 agencies were not in compliance with that part of the law.
Two-thirds of the agencies had not posted a subject matter list online at all, according to the study. Continue>>>
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