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Activists Look to Stop State’s Tax Dollars from Fueling Private Business NY Post September 24, 2015 (opens in a new tab) SUNY at Center of Bharara Corruption Probe NY Post September 19, 2015 (opens in a new tab) In Aftermath of Corruption Scandals, Albany Slow Progress on Transparency Time Warner Cable NY1 News August 27, 2015 (opens in a new tab) NYC Mayor’s Office Screening Sensitive Records The Associated Press August 19, 2015 (opens in a new tab) De Blasio Lawyers Are Screening All FOIL Requests That “Reflect Directly on the Mayor” Gothamist August 19, 2015 (opens in a new tab) New Policy Would Require Any FOIL Request Involving Mayor de Blasio to be Reviewed by his Office First NY Daily News August 19, 2015 (opens in a new tab) De Blasio’s Screening of Public-Record Requests Raises Transparency Concerns NY Post August 19, 2015 (opens in a new tab) FOIL’d in the Pursuit of Open Records in New York MuckRock August 18, 2015 (opens in a new tab) Assembly Transparency Group Operates in Secret Gotham Gazette August 18, 2015 (opens in a new tab) Missing Word Prompts Concerns Over Port Authority Reform Capital New York August 10, 2015 (opens in a new tab) Despite Unprecedented Scandal, Calls for Special Ethics Session Fall on Deaf Ears Gotham Gazette July 29, 2015 (opens in a new tab) Libous Conviction and What it Means for the Balance of Power in the Senate Time Warner Cable NY1 News July 23, 2015 (opens in a new tab) LI Gets $4.5M in Oft-Criticized State ‘Bullet’ Aid Newsday July 7, 2015 (opens in a new tab) NextRequest Puts the Public Information Request Process Online Fast Company July 6, 2015 (opens in a new tab) Banks Takes Baton The Real Deal July 1, 2015 (opens in a new tab) Good-Govt. Groups: Lawmakers Have Unfinished Business The Legislative Gazette June 29, 2015 (opens in a new tab) Buffalo Billion Money Aids IBM, but is State Revealing All? Poughkeepsie Journal June 22, 2015 (opens in a new tab) Shenanigans Beset Buffalo Billion Investigative Post June 22, 2015 (opens in a new tab) Legislature Overwhelmingly Passes ‘Faster FOIL’ bill The Legislative Gazette June 22, 2015 (opens in a new tab) Watchdog Report: Buffalo Billion’s Lack of Transparency Democrat & Chronicle June 21, 2015 (opens in a new tab) Buffalo Billion’s Lack of Transparency Binghamton Press & Sun-Bulletin June 21, 2015 (opens in a new tab) Secrecy, Politics Pervade Project Albany Times Union June 20, 2015 (opens in a new tab) Port Authority Reform Bill to Bring Transparency and Accountability is Introduced with Neither WNYC June 18, 2015 (opens in a new tab) Shorter FOIL Appeal Process Passes Senate Capital New York June 16, 2015 (opens in a new tab)