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Associated Press ALBANY — 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’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. New York regularly re...

© press Cuomo has faced massive criticism for his nursing home policies during the pandemic. New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo’s administration is refusing to release the total number of nursing home coronavirus deaths until March at the earliest, a watchdog group reported. The state Health Department claimed in a letter to the Empire Center for Public Policy that it required another nine weeks and five days to comply with the legal request for a full accounting of nursing homes deaths. It claimed the reason was “because the records potentially responsive to your request are currently being...

Cuomo administration conceals records behind controversial nursing home study FacebookTwitterEmail 6 1of6SYRACUSE, NY - APRIL 28: New York State Governor Andrew Cuomo arrives to his daily Coronavirus press briefing at SUNY Upstate Medical University on April 28, 2020 in Syracuse, New York. Cuomo detailed guidelines to reopening parts of New York State around May 15, 2020.Stefani Reynolds/GettyShow MoreShow Less 3of6 4of6Buy PhotoEntry sign for Van Rensselaer Manor on Wednesday, Sept. 30, 2020, in North Greenbush, N.Y. Rensselaer County officials refused to let a state Health Dep...

NYPD members were expecting to get the Moderna vaccine as early as Tuesday, but learned of the delay Monday night.

New York State Department of Health (DOH) has announced its deployment of “mask squads” to ensure people adhere to public health guidelines. In a Dec. 7 email to employees, the DOH said it was looking for staff members to volunteer for these squads, which will handle “community outreach” and “enforcement of … regulations related to the use of face coverings [or] masks and social distancing.” Volunteers who sign up will see “immediate [and] urgent deployment” to the Orange and Rockland counties and will be eligible for overtime pay. The email indicated that mask squad members...