Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez’s campaign team are arranging private meetings with activists as she comes under fire for backtracking on issues, recalling the role of Rahm Emanuel in silencing critics for a former, once-progressive torch-bearer, Barack Obama.
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A review of the history of the proposed Brooklyn-Queens Connector street car project and newly-released e-mails show that lobbyists and developers were receiving inside information about the BQX.
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The official 2017 calendar of Councilmember Daniel Dromm showed scheduled meetings with Taser International, several special interest groups, a controversial Democratic Party club, and problematic redactions.
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In a complaint filed with the U.S. Attorney’s Office, a pattern and practises investigation was requested about excessive delays by the City of New York in processing FOIL Requests.
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Second Circuit ruling in appeal case essentially permits the U.S. Department of Justice to comply with FOIA at its own discretion.
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Progress New York makes available a free preview of the C’est Vrai : Week in Review newsletter, a weekly bulletin that draws on information from a transparency reporting app to give political news important context.
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For a forum sponsored by the Queens Anti-Gentrification Project about filing open records requests, several FOIA and FOIL requests were made, seeking documents and records about the proposed Brooklyn-Queens Connector streetcar service, or BQX.
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A FOIA lawsuit seeking U.S. Department of Justice records about the prosecution of activists has ended in an adverse ruling by the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit.
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The DOJ’s filing would keep an allegedly biased judge in charge of FOIA litigation seeking the speech records of former U.S. Attorney Preet Bharara.
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