New York’s top court has chided a state agency and warned others after a costly, unnecessary fight to keep public records private despite a request under the Freedom of Information Law.
The Court of Appeals says the state Education Department must turn over its list of veterinarians in Schenectady County with their business addresses. The department had refused to provide street addresses because some veterinarians supplied their home addresses for transactions involving their licenses.
The court says Tuesday the data must be released and the expensive case should never have gone to court. The department must figure out which are home addresses and can black those out.
The court also told the department and other state agencies to comply with the Freedom of Information Law.
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