MuckRock is a collaborative news site that gives you the tools to hold the government accountable.
Muckrock is a great website to learn about Freedom of Information requests. On their website you can search and view thousands of of requests. Muckrock also tracks the data for requests done through their website.
Below is a link to a great visual which shows that it takes an average of 129 days in NY State to receive a response to a FOIL request. NY’s response time is the 5th worst in the country.
Only Mississippi (136 days), Alabama (149), Oklahoma (173), Washington DC (199) are worse. The state with the best response time was Rhode Island at 25 days.
