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PETITIONER’S FOIL REQUEST FOR A POLICE MANUAL WAS AT FIRST DENIED, BUT WAS GRANTED AFTER THE ARTICLE 78 PROCEEDING WAS BROUGHT; RESPONDENT DID NOT HAVE A GOOD REASON FOR FIRST DENYING THE REQUEST; PETITIONER “SUBSTANTIALLY PREVAILED” AND WAS ENTITLED TO ATTORNEY’S FEES (FIRST DEPT).

The First Department, reversing (modifying) Supreme Court, determined petitioner in this FOIL proceeding “substantially prevailed” and was therefore entitled to attorney’s fees:

Upon petitioner’s FOIL request seeking the contents of a medical screening manual used by the New York City Police Department, respondents, relying on Public Officers Law § 87(2)(d) among other sections of the statute, produced only the manual’s cover, title page, and table of contents, maintaining that they lacked the necessary permission from the manual’s developer to release the rest of the manual. After petitioner commenced this article 78 proceeding, however, respondents produced the rest of the manual in unredacted form, except for the appendices, with their response to the petition. Under these circumstances, petitioner substantially prevailed within the meaning of Public Officers Law § 89(4)(c) … .

… [R]espondents have not established that they had a “reasonable basis” for withholding production under Public Officers Law § 87(2)(d). Respondents concede that they sought permission from the manual’s developer to release the information only after receiving the article 78 petition, suggesting that the disclosure was prompted solely by petitioner’s resort to litigation and that respondents could have sought permission in response to the FOIL request itself. This fact militates against a finding that the agency had a “reasonable basis” for withholding production … . Matter of Jaskaran v City of New York, 2021 NY Slip Op 06762, First Dept 12-2-21

 

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