Reinvent Albany is doing a Freedom of Information Law (FOIL) request to all New York State executive agencies seeking records of FOIL requests submitted or closed during calendar year 2025.
The FOIL logs they and the Cornell Law School First Amendment Clinic asked for cover all 72 executive agencies: who asked, when it came in, what the agency did with it, and which exemption it cited when the answer was no. The agencies already run GovQA, which exports that data without anyone having to create a new record.
Read the full request: Groups Ask Gov. Hochul to Ensure Release of NYS Agency FOIL Logs — Reinvent Albany, June 16, 2026.
How the law works: New York’s Freedom of Information Law.
