Gould v. New York City Police Dept.

Decision Date23 January 1996
PartiesIn re Application of Khalib GOULD, Petitioner-Appellant, For an Order, etc., v. NEW YORK CITY POLICE DEPARTMENT, et al., Respondents-Respondents.
CourtNew York Supreme Court — Appellate Division

V-M.H. Cordes, for petitioner-appellant.

M.G. King, for respondents-respondents.

Judgment, Supreme Court, New York County (Walter Tolub, J.), entered July 13, 1994, which denied petitioner's application pursuant to CPLR article 78 challenging respondents' denial of access under the Freedom of Information Law to, inter alia, certain DD5 reports and police officers' memo books, and dismissed the proceeding, unanimously affirmed, without costs.

The petition was properly denied. As this Court recently held in Johnson v. New York City Police Department, 220 A.D.2d 320, 632 N.Y.S.2d 568, "[w]e adhere to our decision in Matter of Scott v. Chief Medical Examiner, 179 A.D.2d 443, 444, 577 N.Y.S.2d 861, lv. denied 79 N.Y.2d 758, 584 N.Y.S.2d 446, 594 N.E.2d 940, cert. denied 506 U.S. 891, 113 S.Ct. 259, 121 L.Ed.2d 190) that DD5 reports and police officers' memo books are exempt from FOIL disclosure.

ROSENBERGER, J.P., and ELLERIN, NARDELLI, WILLIAMS and TOM, JJ., concur.

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