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Sgt. Jordan Mazur spent eight years deciding what the public could — and couldn’t — know about the NYPD. Now, he’s written a how-to guide for prying records out of government agencies’ hands.
New York’s Freedom of Information Law, also known as FOIL, grants the public the right to request records from government agencies. Mazur, who most recently served as the NYPD’s records access appeals officer, has self-published a step-by-step manual, “FOIL Made Simple,” that guides individuals on how to obtain important documents from bureaucracies that may be predisposed to resist disclosure…