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COUNTY-SHERIFF DISCIPLINARY RECORDS CREATED BEFORE THE 2020 REPEAL OF THE STATUTE WHICH EXEMPTED THEM FROM DISCLOSURE PURSUANT A FOIL REQUEST ARE NOW SUBJECT TO DISCLOSURE (FOURTH DEPT).

The Fourth Department, reversing Supreme Court, determined the FOIL request for county-sheriff disciplinary records which were created before Civil Rights Law 50-a was repealed in 2020 must be disclosed. Civil Rights Law 50-a had exempted disciplinary records from disclosure:

Former section 50-a operated as an exception to the general rule that permitted public access through FOIL to certain government records, i.e., it exempted from disclosure “[a]ll personnel records used to evaluate performance toward continued employment or promotion, under the control of any police agency” … . When section 50-a was repealed on June 12, 2020, that exception was removed. ” ‘A statute is not retroactive . . . when made to apply to future transactions merely because such transactions relate to and are founded upon antecedent events’ ” … . Likewise, it is not a retroactive application of the repeal of section 50-a to conclude that past police disciplinary records are no longer subject to that exception and are now subject to FOIL; it is merely a recognition that police departments faced with FOIL requests cannot rely on an exception that no longer exists to evade their prospective duty of disclosure … . Matter of Abbatoy v Baxter, 2024 NY Slip Op 02393, Fourth Dept 5-3-24

Practice Point: Here the statute protecting county-sheriff disciplinary records from disclosure pursuant to a FOIL request was repealed in 2020. Disciplinary records created prior to the repeal are now subject to disclosure.

 

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