Over the past six months, the New York Attorney General Letitia James has directed her efforts to certain issues, and there is an observable pattern that she is focusing on consumer protection, privacy rights and monopolistic...more
Effective July 8, 2022, New York’s Joint Commission on Public Ethics (commonly referred to as “JCOPE”) will transition to the new Commission on Ethics and Lobbying in Government. The transition is pursuant to the Ethics...more
Municipalities in New York State should be ready to respond to an increased amount of Freedom of Information Law (“FOIL”) requests as a result of a bill just passed in both houses of the New York State Legislature and signed...more