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Hotfix/OP-1379: Edits to About and FAQ pages
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joelbcastillo authored Feb 22, 2018
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interfere with investigations or judicial proceedings, deprive a person to a fair trial, identify a
confidential source, reveal investigative techniques, or endanger a person's life. Records
such as reports and data will be posted to the portal 20 business days after they are sent
directly to the requester. Records that contain email correspondence from government employees
will be sent directly to the requester.
directly to the requester.
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In 2014, the Department of Records and Information Services and the Department of Information Technology
and Telecommunications began working with the open source code from the Oakland application to create
additional features and functionality required to meet the FOIL needs of New York City agencies. The
resulting FOIL portal, is part of the Mayors overall initiative for transparency in government. The
initial beta version of OpenRecords was released in March 2015 for use with eight pilot agencies.. The
current version 2.0 was released in January 2017 and is used by 21 agencies, with more to be added on a
resulting FOIL portal is part of Mayor de Blasio's overall initiative for transparency in government. The
initial beta version of OpenRecords was released in March 2015 for use with eight pilot agencies. The
current version 2.1 was released in August 2017 and is used by 38 agencies, with more to be added on a
regular basis. The DORIS development team rewrote all of the code to increase the stability and
robustness of the application.

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people. If disclosure of a record would be damaging to an individual or prevent a government agency
from carrying out its duties, it is likely that some or all of the record may be withheld. You can
read the law, including the exceptions, by clicking here. <a
href="http://www.dos.ny.gov/coog/Right_to_know.html#foil">See FOIL &sect;87(2)</a>
href="https://law.justia.com/codes/new-york/2015/pbo/article-6/87/">See FOIL &sect;87(2)</a>
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<p>You may appeal a decision to deny your request within 30 days of receiving the denial or partial
denial. The denial or partial denial should provide the contact information for the Agency Appeals
Officer. Your appeal letter should state the reason you are appealing and why the agency's response
to the request was improper. [See the New York State <a
href="http://www.dos.ny.gov/coog/Right_to_know.html#appealsample">sample FOIL appeal</a>]
to the request was improper.
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