“Publicity is justly commended as a remedy for social and industrial diseases. Sunlight is said to be the best of disinfectants; electric light the most efficient policeman.” Supreme Court Justice Louis Brandeis.

Have you ever wondered how effective is the New York State Freedom of Information Law (FOIL)? What better way to test FOIL than by using it to see how state agencies log their compliance?

In June, two open government advocates set out to find out using, you guessed it, the FOIL process.

The advocates — Rachael Fauss, senior policy adviser to the government watchdog group Reinvent Albany, and Heather Murray, associate director of the........

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