Media on FOIL & Glomar

  WNYC http://www.wnyc.org/story/muslim-new-yorkers-now-have-someone-watching-cops-who-watch-them/

Some in the legal community can neither confirm nor deny that the New York City Police Department’s policy of using the so-called Glomar doctrine as an exemption to open records requests is a good thing. New York Law Journal. Read More.

New York Daily News: The NYPD wants to torpedo a request for information about its surveillance methods by citing a national security argument first employed during the CIA’s construction of a deep sea vessel during the Cold War. Read More

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A federal judge has formally approved a settlement that installs a civilian watchdog on an NYPD surveillance panel to protect Muslims from unconstitutional monitoring, the Daily News has learned. NY Daily News Judge approves settlement to install civilian watchdog on NYPD surveillance of Muslims New York Law Journal NY Court Taps U S Doctrine

The Court of Appeals agreed Monday to hear a case challenging the New York City Police Department’s refusal to acknowledge the existence of records sought under the state Freedom of Information Law. The New York Law Journal http://otmlaw.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/11/11-21-16-NY-Law-Journal-to-Hear-FOIL-and-Glomar-Case.pdf

A New York judicial panel has ruled that a Paramus man is not entitled to records he believed the NYPD had kept on him during a period of surveillance on New Jersey Muslims. Read more…Here

The unanimous decision by the judges accepted the department’s so-called Glomar defense—a provision related to federal Freedom of Information Act that allows federal agencies to avoid acknowledging or denying the existence of certain sensitive information if it rises to a level of “harm cognizable” to law enforcement and public safety. Read more…here

The Court in this case denied the New York City Police Department’s (“NYPD”) motion to dismiss. It argued that the NYPD could not evade its obligation under the Freedom of Information Law (“FOIL”) by invoking the federal “Glomar Doctrine” exception. The Court in this case declined to adopt the Glomar doctrine and stated that the

Samir Hashmi V. NYPD and Abdur-Rashid cases have been profiled in the latest Village Voice Article. The two Muslim individuals, among many others, have been affected by the controversial surveillance. The New York Police Department (“NYPD”) conducted illegal surveillance against the Muslim community in the past 12 years based on its members’ faith. We filed