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DOCUMENTS CREATED AND HELD BY A PRIVATE ENTITY PURSUANT TO THE REGULATIONS OF A STATE AGENCY ARE NOT “RECORDS” WHICH THE STATE AGENCY MUST DISCLOSE PURSUANT TO THE FREEDOM OF INFORMATION LAW, DESPITE THE FACT THAT THE AGENCY CAN DEMAND PRODUCTION OF THE DOCUMENTS (THIRD DEPT).

The Third Department, reversing Supreme Court, determined documents created and held by a private entity (Union) pursuant to a state agency’s (New York Department of Labor’s) regulations regarding apprenticeship programs are not “records” which the Department of Labor is required to produce under the Freedom of information Law (FOIL):

… [R]espondent [New York Department of Labor] did not delegate a duty to the Union nor did the Union perform any essential service on respondent’s behalf. The mere fact that respondent has the discretionary regulatory authority to ask the Union for the requested documents does not, ipso facto, render all documents that are created and maintained by the Union with respect to its apprenticeship programs subject to disclosure (see Public Officers Law § 86 [4]). Practically speaking, to so hold would render any document that was created or maintained by a private entity in order to comply with a corresponding agency regulation requiring the production and retention thereof a “record” subject to disclosure under FOIL (see Public Officers Law § 86 [4]) … . …

Although we recognize that “FOIL is to be liberally construed and its exemptions narrowly interpreted so that the public is granted maximum access to the records of government” … , we do not find the definition of “record” to be so broad and all-encompassing as to bring within its ambit any document that a private entity might create and maintain pursuant to a state agency’s regulation under the guise that said records are held “for” that agency (see Public Officers Law §§ 86 [4]; 87 [2]; 89 [3] [a] …). Matter of Broach & Stulberg, LLP v New York State Dept. of Labor, 2021 NY Slip Op 03509, Second Dept 6-3-21

 

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