Watchdog Report Shows Why Legislature Must Pass Bills to Improve Floundering Freedom of Information Law   Listening to FOIL 2025: Review of Five High Profile State Agencies Shows Big Variation in FOIL Response Times, Dearth of Basic Information   Reinvent Albany advocates for transparent and accountable New York government, including working to strengthen the Freedom […]

Executive Summary In a series of “Listening to FOIL” reports dating to 2014, Reinvent Albany has used government agency logs of Freedom of Information Law (FOIL) requests to assess how well FOIL is working. These reports also provide a model for agencies of how they can use their own FOIL logs to guide which data […]

We’ve been sounding the bell for some time about changes to federal Opportunity Zone tax breaks potentially costing New York tens of millions in revenue as soon as next year. And – ding, ding – the various grifters and tax dodgers already benefiting from the OZ giveaway want more and are circulating a letter to […]

As part of our advocacy for open, accountable NY government, Reinvent Albany reissued memos of support for the following bills: We urge the Legislature to pass these bills, and the Governor to sign them. We also reissued a memo of opposition to the following bill: We urge the Legislature to reject this bill, and the […]