Professional Documents
Culture Documents
Queens, Inc.
34-21 77th Street, No. 406
Jackson Heights, New York 11372
Louis Flores
Publisher
louis.flores@progressqueens.com
1 (646) 400-1168
16 June 2016
Attention :
Alexandra De Fresco
Freedom of Information Law Office
Re :
I received the package of ten (10) DVD/CD discs on 03 June 2016. The amount of
documents, measured by memory, based on one calculation, totaled 732 MB. Based on
another calculation, the total measured 1,022 MB. Either way, the approximate
measurement is 1 GB.
1/.
Can you explain NYCHAs rationale for spreading 1 GB of data across ten (10)
discs and charging me for the production of ten (10) discs when one DVD disc would have
been sufficient to store the production of these documents ?
2/.
For a follow-up article Im writing about the reported Federal corruption
investigation into NYCHAs finances and physical condition standards, please also let me
know if NYCHA is also producing records to the U.S. Attorneys Office by unnecessarily
spreading data across extra discs.
I thank NYCHA for providing with me with approximately 1 GB of records, but I did
not see any index, describing the records that NYCHA withheld. NYCHA CEO Shola Olatoye
has publicly said that NYCHA produced over 400 million records to the U.S. Attorneys Office
in respect of the reported Federal corruption investigation. See Mireya Navarro, U.S. Inquiry
Into New Yorks Housing Authority is Very Expansive, Its Chief Says, The New York Times
(March 18, 2016), http://www.nytimes.com/2016/03/19/nyregion/us-inquiry-into-newyorks-housing-authority-is-very-expansive-its-chief-says.html.
3/.
Can you attest that, of all of those 400 million records, the 1 GB of files
produced by NYCHA in response to my FOIL request were the only documents that were not
subject to exemption ?
4/.
Can NYCHA produce an index that : (i) describes the exempted records that
have been withheld and (ii) identifies the exemption(s) being claimed for the exempted
records, as provided for in 87.2 of the States Freedom of Information Law ?
Thank you for your prompt attention to this matter.
Sincerely,
cc :
Louis Flores
Albert Freeman (via e-mail : albert.freeman@nycha.nyc.gov)