Attorneys in a lawsuit over the New York City Police Department’s decision to stop publicly releasing internal information that included disciplinary actions—a practice the department had followed for four decades—sought relief from the state’s highest court Oct. 6.
Cleary Gottlieb Steen & Hamilton and the Legal Aid Society filed with the Court of Appeals in Luongo v. NYPD Records Access Officer, 160232-2016. The suit was brought against the city in May 2016, after the department announced its interpretation of the state statute, Civil Rights Law Section 50-a, required it to cease releasing information about officers.
