File #: Int 1402-2025    Version: * Name: Reporting on police department compliance with freedom of information law requests.
Type: Introduction Status: Committee
Committee: Committee on Public Safety
On agenda: 9/25/2025
Enactment date: Law number:
Title: A Local Law to amend the administrative code of the city of New York, in relation to reporting on police department compliance with freedom of information law requests
Sponsors: Yusef Salaam, Lincoln Restler
Council Member Sponsors: 2
Summary: This bill would require the Department of Investigations to annually report on the New York City Police Department’s (NYPD) compliance with the Freedom of Information Law. The report would provide recommendations on improving compliance with the Freedom of Information Law as well as data about the kinds of requests being made and the timeline on which NYPD responded to the request.
Indexes: Report Required
Attachments: 1. Summary of Int. No. 1402, 2. Int. No. 1402, 3. September 25, 2025 - Stated Meeting Agenda, 4. Hearing Transcript - Stated Meeting 9-25-25.pdf

Int. No. 1402

 

By Council Members Salaam and Restler

 

A Local Law to amend the administrative code of the city of New York, in relation to reporting on police department compliance with freedom of information law requests

 

Be it enacted by the Council as follows:

 

Section 1. Chapter 2 of title 33 of the administrative code of the city of New York is amended by adding a new section 33-202 to read as follows:

§ 33-202 Reporting on police department freedom of information law requests. a. Definitions. For the purposes of this section, the term “FOIL request” means any request made with the police department under section 87 of the public officers law.

b. Report. No later than January 1, 2026, and annually thereafter, the commissioner shall submit to the mayor and speaker of the council and shall post on the department’s website an annual report regarding FOIL requests.

c. Requirements of the report. The annual report shall include:

1. A table in which each separate row references a unique FOIL request. Each such row shall include the following information, as well as any additional information the commissioner deems appropriate, set forth in separate columns:

(a) The date on which a FOIL request was filed;

(b) The general topic on which the FOIL request was made;

(c) The date on which the police department first responded to the FOIL request;

(d) The date on which materials responsive to the FOIL request would be due without any extensions;

(e) The number of extensions requested by the police department regarding the FOIL request;

(f) The date on which the police department issued a decision regarding the FOIL request;

(g) The date on which the FOIL request was appealed, if applicable;

(h) The decision on the appeal of the FOIL request, if applicable;

2. A qualitative analysis of the data described in paragraph 1 of this subdivision; and

3. Recommendations for how the police department may more expeditiously comply with section 87 of the public officers law.

d. Data dictionary. The report required by subdivision c of this section shall include a data dictionary.

e. Removal of personally identifiable information. Except as otherwise expressly provided in this section, no report required by subdivision c of this section shall contain personally identifiable information.

§ 2. This local law takes effect immediately.

 

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