Reinvent Albany advocates for more open New York State and NYC Government and a stronger Freedom of Information Law.
We are winning more open government, stronger Freedom of Information Law, open data, online fiscal and spending transparency, open meetings, more robust ethics and lobbying disclosure and rules. We helped write the first open data law in the world! Since winning the NYC Open Data Law in 2012, we’ve pushed NYC and NY State to create top notch open data initiatives.

 

 

In the News
Open Government, Freedom of Information

August 21, 2019 State Senators Call on MTA To Abide By Open Meeting Laws New York Daily News
August 21, 2019 State Looks To Hire New Open Government Czar Times Union
August 16, 2019 New York Politicians Love Using Personal Emails City and State NY
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From the Blog
Open Government, Freedom of Information

June 21, 2019 End of Legislative Session Statement on Anti-Corruption, Democracy, FOIL and Authorities Accountability End of Legislative Session Statement Major Progress on Voting Little Progress on Clean Government and Curbing Business Subsidies Rushed and Counterproductive Action on MTA This past legislative session marked complete Democratic control of state government for the first time in a decade, and, for the first time, New York State legislature had both houses of […]
May 28, 2019 Memo in Support for Bill Clarifying How Agencies Should Administer FOIL
May 20, 2019 Memo in Support for FOIL Bill on Release of Law Enforcement Records Related to Judicial Proceedings
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Reports and Policy Briefs
Open Government, Freedom of Information

April 2019 Steps Forward for MTA FOIL and Open Data 18 specific actions the MTA can take to improve transparency now. (2019)
November 2018 FOIL that Works: MTA 2018 An in-depth look at FOIL at the MTA shows a fragmented process and offers best practices for online FOIL and police incident reports (2018)
March 2017 Listening to FOIL 2: NYC DOITT FOIL Requests 2015 An examination of the FOIL logs of one New York City agency (DoITT) tells us what data sets are high-value and should be open data (2015)
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