FOIL

Lawyers also appealed for the complaint records of the officer who put Eric Garner in a chokehold. 

The files don't have to be released because they're personnel records, an appeals court ruled.

De Blasio's team tried to claim his agents were not subject to Freedom of Information requests.   

The city refuses to disclose how much profit the developers stand to make, among other details.

The mayor told NY1's Errol Louis he would disclose future emails, but not ones he already received.

Don Appel processed 18,000 FOIL requests and listened to many a reporter's complaints for records.

Good government groups say the mayor is limiting transparency in his administration.

The digital system comes nearly three years after Bill de Blasio criticized the city's FOIL failings.

The mayor is failing at transparency by his own former standards as public advocate.

We graded the mayor according to his own system from 2013 when he was public advocate.

A secret meeting was held between the Manhattan Borough President and Atlas Capital.

Tax records show wide gaps between what the state paid and what the city said homes were worth.

Vanessa Fontaine is seeking access to NYPD documents surrounding her son's disappearance on Oct. 4.

Councilwoman Letitia James filed a Freedom of Information Request asking for a slew of Ed Dept. emails.

The city cannot release the names of thousands of teachers included in a DOE evaluation, a judge said Thursday.