A FOIL request was filed for records of the New York State Statewide Commission for Attorney Discipline

Today I filed (by e-mail) a FOIL request with the New York State Commission for Attorney Discipline asking it the following information:

1/ copies of all applications to testify at the three public hearings held on July 28, 2015, August 4, 2015 and August 11, 2015 by the New York State Statewide Commission for Attorney Discipline;

2/ copies of all audio and video files of hearings;

3/ copies of all rules issued by the Commission as to how hearings are to be conducted and/or recorded, with records indicating who issued those rules, with signatures of issuers, and with records showing where, when and how such rules were displayed during the hearings;

4/ official telephone numbers and e-mail addresses of all members of the Commission;

5/  copies of telephone records and e-mails of the Commission from their assigned telephones from the time the phones were issued up to the date the response to this FOIL request;

6/ minutes of all three public hearings before the Commission;

7/ all rules and policies created/issued by the Commission.

I know that many people submitted their proposed testimony to the Commission, but not many people were heard.

Since people who submitted proposed testimony for a public hearing, obviously waived their privacy, their submissions became public records subject to FOIL requests, whether they were invited to testify or not, because the Commission claims it will review all of the submissions and will make its recommendations to the New York State Court system based on all of the submissions, whether the witnesses were invited to testify orally or not.

Stay tuned as to the Commission's response.