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INSUFFICIENT SHOWING BY THE STATE POLICE TO JUSTIFY DENIAL OF REQUEST FOR RECORDS PERTAINING TO A VICTIM OF CRIMES COMMITTED BY PETITIONER, MATTER REMITTED.

The Third Department determined the state police did not make sufficient assertions to justify the denial of petitioner’s request for records concerning a victim of crimes committed by petitioner (an inmate). The state police did not provide factual information to support the claims that the records would disclose non-routine investigatory techniques and would violate privacy. The state police further failed to show that redaction could address those concerns. The matter was remitted to Supreme Court:

The State Police merely paraphrased the statutory language of the exemptions without describing the records withheld or providing any factual basis for its conclusory assertions that disclosure would constitute an unwarranted invasion of personal privacy and would reveal nonroutine criminal investigative techniques and procedures … . Further, with respect to the personal privacy exemption, the State Police offered no proof that the requested records fell into any enumerated categories and failed to specify the implicated privacy interests, if any, against which the public interest in disclosing the records were to be balanced … .

Moreover, Public Officers Law § 89 (2) (a) expressly permits an agency to delete “identifying details” from records that it makes available to the public in order to prevent unwarranted invasions of personal privacy … , and the State Police failed to make any showing as to whether the requested documents could be redacted in such a manner as to protect personal privacy … . Nor did it submit the documents to Supreme Court for an in camera review to allow an “informed determination” by the court on that issue … . Matter of McFadden v Fonda, 2017 NY Slip Op 02101, 3rd Dept 3-23-17

 

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