Relates to the redaction of personally identifying information of private individuals contained in municipal land use applications and/or supporting materials in response to a FOIL request.
STATE OF NEW YORK
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10456
IN ASSEMBLY
March 6, 2026
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Introduced by M. of A. WALSH -- read once and referred to the Committee
on Governmental Operations
AN ACT to amend the public officers law, in relation to personally iden-
tifying information in municipal land use documents subject to FOIL
The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem-bly, do enact as follows:
1 Section 1. Subparagraphs vii and viii of paragraph (b) of subdivision
2 2 of section 89 of the public officers law, as amended by section 2 of
3 part GGG of chapter 59 of the laws of 2019, are amended and a new
4 subparagraph ix is added to read as follows:
5 vii. disclosure of electronic contact information, such as an e-mail
6 address or a social network username, that has been collected from a
7 taxpayer under section one hundred four of the real property tax law;
8 [or]
9 viii. disclosure of law enforcement arrest or booking photographs of
10 an individual, unless public release of such photographs will serve a
11 specific law enforcement purpose and disclosure is not precluded by any
12 state or federal laws; or
13 ix. disclosure of personally identifying information of private indi-
14 viduals contained in an application and/or supporting materials submit-
15 ted to a municipal planning board, zoning board of appeals, or similar
16 local land-use body, where such disclosure would constitute an unwar-
17 ranted invasion of personal privacy or create a risk of fraud or identi-
18 ty theft; provided, however, that this subparagraph shall not be
19 construed to authorize the redaction of information necessary to under-
20 stand the nature of such application or the basis of such municipal
21 planning board's, zoning board of appeals', or similar local land-use
22 body's determination regarding such application.
23 § 2. This act shall take effect immediately.
EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
[] is old law to be omitted.
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