Kane, J.
In January 2006, petitioner Brendan Lyons, a senior writer for the Albany Times Union, filed two requests under the Freedom of Information Law (see Public Officers Law art 6 [hereinafter FOIL]) with respondent City of Albany. The FOIL requests sought documents pertaining to the alleged use of official Albany Police Department channels to purchase military-style assault rifles for personal, nonofficial use by a number of individual police officers in...
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