NY Supreme Court rules NYSDOH must release nursing home death data to Empire Center
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Commissioner of Health for New York State Howard A. Zucker speaks to reporters during a news conference at a New York State COVID-19 vaccination site in the Jacob K. Javits Convention Center, Wednesday, Jan. 13, 2021, in New York. New York state expanded COVID-19 vaccine distribution Tuesday to people 65 and over, increasing access to an already short supply of doses being distributed. (AP Photo/Mary Altaffer)
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Following the release of that report, the Empire Center renewed its Freedom of Information Law (FOIL) request asking the New York State Department of Health for data on nursing home resident deaths by date and facility. The Empire Center says it originally filed its FOIL request for the data on August 3, 2020.
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ALBANY A judge Wednesday ordered the state Department of Health to release full data on COVID-related deaths in New York nursing homes.
The ruling comes in response to a court challenge by the Empire Center for Public Policy, an Albany think tank that requested the records last summer through the state Freedom of Information Law.
The state has repeatedly delayed its response to the FOIL request while also rejecting requests and demands from numerous other parties to publicize the full, accurate death toll. Empire Center took the DOH to court in September, filing an Article 78 lawsuit.