IN RE: Michael HOWARD (2024)

Supreme Court, Appellate Division, First Department, New York.

IN RE: Michael HOWARD, Petitioner–Appellant, v. NEW YORK CITY POLICE DEPARTMENT, Respondent–Respondent.

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Decided: December 10, 2024

Renwick, P.J., Friedman, Shulman, Pitt–Burke, Rosado, JJ.

Michael Howard, appellant pro se. Muriel Goode–Trufant, Acting Corporation Counsel, New York (Elizabeth I. Freedman of counsel), for respondent.

Judgment, Supreme Court, New York County (Judy H. Kim, J.), entered on or about October 4, 2023, denying the petition to annul respondent's determination, dated January 12, 2023, which denied petitioner's administrative appeal of a determination that petitioner claims denied him access to video footage requested pursuant to the Freedom of Information Law (FOIL), and dismissing the proceeding brought pursuant to CPLR article 78, unanimously affirmed, without costs.

The court correctly denied the petition, finding that it was moot or academic in light of respondent's production of the requested materials (see Matter of Taylor v. New York City Police Dept. FOIL Unit, 25 A.D.3d 347, 347, 806 N.Y.S.2d 586 [1st Dept. 2006]).

We have considered petitioner's remaining arguments and find them unavailing.

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