BUFFALO, N.Y. (WIVB) — Erie County Sheriff John Garcia’s promise to improve transparency has not led to significant changes in how the department handles requests for public records.
On Aug. 19, News 4 Investigates filed a Freedom of Information law request for the internal affairs investigation file for the sheriff’s chief of narcotics, Daniel “D.J.” Granville, who, in April 2024, crashed a county-owned 2016 Dodge truck into six vehicles, damaging seven, on two different streets in Buffalo’s West Side.
Granville left the scene of the crashes, which caused more than $60,000 in vehicle damage claims, some of which were paid by county taxpayers…