Local development corporations do public business with public money, and in New York many of them sit outside the Freedom of Information Law and the Open Meetings Law. A bill that passed both houses this year, A.173/S.6165, sponsored by Assemblywoman Amy Paulin and Sen. James Skoufis, would change that for LDCs, industrial development agencies, land banks and other government-affiliated nonprofits: open meetings, access to records, livestreamed proceedings and video kept online for at least five years.
The Assembly passed it March 31 and the Senate on June 1, 37-23. The article notes that business improvement districts are excluded from the bill, though a 2016 Committee on Open Government opinion already treats BIDs as subject to both laws. The article does not say whether the governor has signed it.
Read the full story: Amy Paulin Pushes Bills to Expand FOIL and Open Meetings Law to Government-Affiliated Nonprofits — Talk of the Sound, October 16, 2026.
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