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Albany County Acting Supreme Court Justice Kimberly O'Connor also ordered Gov. Andrew Cuomo's administration Wednesday to pay legal fees for The Empire Center for Public Policy, a conservative-leaning, nonprofit think tank that filed suit demanding the release of the records last fall.
Lawmakers want Cuomo subpoenaed in COVID nursing home deaths investigation By Wire and Staff Reports Published Cuomo accused of nursing home coverup NY State Republicans are accusing the Cuomo administration of covering up its mismanagement of the deaths at nursing homes during the pandemic. NEW YORK - New York’s Republican Congressional delegation sent a letter Wednesday to the US Justice Department asking it serve subpoenas on Gov. Andrew Cuomo and other state officials for records related to a "coverup" of nursing home patient deaths from COVID-19. The deaths in question occurred f...
New York State Team ALBANY – New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo's administration is facing renewed pressure from Republicans, Democrats and even the courts to release more information about the COVID-19 crisis in nursing homes. State Supreme Court Justice Kimberly O’Connor ruled against the state Department of Health on Wednesday, giving the state agency five business days to release the number of nursing home residents who died each day at each facility in response to a lawsuit by the Empire Center, an Albany-based think tank. The ruling came the same day Republican lawmakers at the state an...
Judge orders release of NY data on nursing home deaths from Covid-19 Updated Feb 04, 2021; Posted Feb 04, 2021 New York state Gov. Andrew Cuomo speaks at a news conference on September 8, 2020 in New York City.Photo by Spencer Platt/Getty Images Facebook Share ALBANY, N.Y. (AP) — A state judge ordered New York’s Department of Health to release records about nursing home residents who died of COVID-19 in a Wednesday ruling that said the agency’s failure to do so already was a “violation” of New York’s open government law. Albany County Acting Supreme Court Justice Kimberly O’Co...
The judge ordered the Department of Health to release the information within five business days, and said the agency violated the state’s Freedom of Information law by failing to provide a reasonable date to grant or deny the Empire Center’s request. NBC New York's Ray Villeda reports. “Its continued failure to provide petitioner a response, given the straightforward nature of the request, how the data is collected and maintained, and the fact that some of the requested data has already been made publicly available without personally identifying information, goes against FOIL’s...