Procedure for requests for public access to records
Compiled text through Jul 31, 2022
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- Compiling agency
- Executive Department
- Text status
- Source receipt
- Compiled text through
- Jul 31, 2022
- Register checked through
- July 29, 2026/Vol. XLVIII, Issue 30 (2026-07-29)
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- No later Register activity identified in this check.
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- Jun 6, 2026
(a)All requests for inspection of records or copies of records, other than for payroll information specified in section 88, subdivision (1)(g) of the Public Officers Law, shall be directed either orally or in writing to the Division for Youth records access officer. All requests for payroll information:
(1)shall be directed to the person designated as fiscal officer for the purpose of this Part;
(2)shall be in writing;
(3)shall be on a form to be prescribed by the Comptroller of the State of New York; and
(4)shall be reasonable and specify what records are to be requested with particularity.
Payroll records may be inspected under the supervision of the aforesaid fiscal officer's office and only in the fiscal officer's office during regular working hours and regular working days or at such other place as may be convenient to the fiscal officer.
(b)
(1)Responses to the request for records, except for extraordinary circumstances, will be made within five working days after the request is received.
(2)If for any reason more than five days is required to produce records, receipt of the request shall be acknowledged within five working days after the request is received. The acknowledgment shall include a brief explanation of the reason for delay and an estimate of the date production or denial will be forthcoming.
(c)The Division for Youth shall maintain an index, listing by subject matter records produced, filed, or first kept or promulgated after September 1, 1974. Such master index shall be available for public inspection at the Division for Youth, 84 Holland Avenue, Albany, NY 12208, and the Division for Youth, Adam Clayton Powell, Jr. State Office Building, 163 West 125th Street, 14th Floor, New York, NY 10027.