Op-Ed originally posted in the New York Daily Newsby Rachael Fauss, Senior Policy Advisor Thanks to the state Freedom of Information Law, we at Reinvent Albany got a copy of the Penn Station “collaboration agreement” Amtrak has been pushing the MTA to sign. As lifelong NYC transit advocates, we are intensely interested in President Trump’s […]

September 15, 2026 Shawn(ta) Smith-CruzCommissionerDepartment of Records and Information Services RE: Public Release of OpenRecords Law Implementation Report, and Keeping OpenRecords Open Source Dear Commissioner Smith-Cruz, We write to ask you for a status update regarding the implementation report required by Local Law 199 of 2025, which codifies and expands the OpenRecords portal. The implementation […]

Reinvent Albany Written Public Comment NYS Department of Public Service Proceeding on Case No. 26-E-0335:Motion of the Commission to Implement a Nuclear Reliability Backbone Submitted via Email Secretary@dps.ny.gov Reinvent Albany advocates for transparent and accountable government and sensible public investment in New York. We write today to comment on Governor Hochul’s intention to invest tens […]

New Report Finds Fewer Than Half of NY’s Largest Local Ethics Boards Are FunctionalOnly 20 of 45 local ethics boards operational; eight have no website, and just two publish electeds’ financial disclosure statements online   A new report by Reinvent Albany finds that while nearly all of New York’s largest local governments have ethics boards […]