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FOIL Request for Police “Intelligence Division” Documents Re: Surveillance of “Middle Eastern, South Asian or Muslim Persons” Properly Denied

The First Department determined the New York City Police Department (NYPD) properly denied a Freedom of Information Law (FOIL) request seeking documents generated by the Intelligence Division of the NYPD which related, in part, to broad categories, such as businesses “frequented” by Middle Eastern, South Asian or Muslim persons.  The court determined the requests were “overbroad,” exempt under the Public Officers Law (law enforcement privilege and danger to  life and safety), and would constitute an invasion of privacy.  With regard to  “danger to life and safety” and “invasion of privacy,” the court wrote:

The court also properly found that the requested disclosure “could endanger the life or safety of any person” (Public Officers Law § 87[2][f]). Granting the broadly worded request for a trove of NYPD Intelligence Division documents replete with sensitive information about the unit’s methods and operations, which could be publicly disseminated and potentially exploited by terrorists, would create “a possibility of endangerment” … . In addition, the court properly recognized that the requested records are exempt from FOIL because disclosure would constitute an unwarranted invasion of personal privacy … . Petitioners emphasize the public interest in scrutinizing whether NYPD engaged in improper surveillance or profiling of certain communities, but this is outweighed by the privacy interests at stake given the specific purpose of this counterterrorism police operation. The revelation that a certain person, business, or organization was the subject of counterterrorism-related surveillance would not only have the potential to be embarrassing or offensive, but could also be detrimental to the reputations or livelihoods of such persons or entities. Matter of Asian Am Legal Defense & Educ Fund v New York City Police Department, 2015 NY Slip OP 01559, 1st Dept 2-24-15

 

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