Petitioner's challenge to respondent's denial of its FOIL request was properly rejected since respondent established that it did not possess or maintain the records sought by petitioner (Public Officers Law § 89 [3] [a]). Respondent certified that despite its reasonable efforts, documents pertaining to immigration-related arrests and its communications with federal immigration agencies were not retrievable from its databases (see e.g. Matter of Data Tree, LLC v Romaine...
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