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DELIBERATIVE PROCESS PRIVILEGE UNDER THE FREEDOM OF INFORMATION LAW DOES NOT APPLY TO DISCOVERY REQUEST FOR GOVERNMENT DOCUMENTS UNDER THE CPLR.

In the context of a suit against the county, the Fourth Department determined the deliberative process privilege (also called the inter-agency or intra-agency materials exception) which applies to documents requested under the Freedom of Information Law does not apply to discovery request under the CPLR:

Both the CPLR and FOIL provide for disclosure of documents. The former controls discovery between litigants in court proceedings, and the latter permits disclosure of governmental records to the public even in the absence of litigation. “When a public agency is one of the litigants, this means that it has the distinct disadvantage of having to offer its adversary two routes into its records” … . The deliberative process privilege or exemption under FOIL seeks “to protect the deliberative process of the government by ensuring that persons in an advisory role [will] be able to express their opinions freely to agency decision makers” … . While some courts have applied that privilege outside the FOIL context … , we decline to do so inasmuch as the Court of Appeals “has never created nor recognized a generalized deliberative process privilege’ ” … .

We “recognize[] the existence of some cases which all too casually mention the deliberate process privilege’ and purport to apply it outside the context of a FOIL proceeding” … . Nevertheless, it is also important to recognize that “privileges simply do not exist in the absence of either constitutional or statutory authority, or, when created as a matter of jurisprudence” … . Although the County seeks to assert “the so-called deliberative process privilege[,]’ ” in the context of a civil litigation, “neither the Court of Appeals’ case law nor that of the [Fourth] Department can be construed [as] having created a distinct deliberate process privilege’ outside the context of a FOIL proceeding” … . Mosey v County of Erie, 2017 NY Slip Op 02201, 4th Dept 3-24-17

 

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