IN RE: Application of Lorenzo McGRIFF (2002)

Order, Supreme Court, New York County (Walter Tolub, J.), entered August 31, 1999, which granted respondent Police Department's motion to dismiss petitioner's Freedom of Information Law application to compel it to produce certain information pertaining to petitioner's arrest, unanimously affirmed, without costs.

We reject petitioner's argument that although the information he sought in his second FOIL request was also sought in his first request, the second, more detailed request was justified by respondent's denial of the first request as too broad to permit a search.   Upon denial of the first request as too broad to permit a search, petitioner, in order to preserve his right to judicial review, was required to exhaust his administrative remedies by filing an administrative appeal within 30 days (Public Officers Law § 89[4][b] ).  Belated judicial review of that denial cannot be based on petitioner's second request for the same information, albeit more detailed (see, Matter of Corbin v. Ward, 160 A.D.2d 596, 554 N.Y.S.2d 240, lv. denied 76 N.Y.2d 706, 560 N.Y.S.2d 988, 561 N.E.2d 888;  Matter of Van Steenburg v. Thomas, 242 A.D.2d 802, 661 N.Y.S.2d 317, lv. denied 91 N.Y.2d 803, 667 N.Y.S.2d 682, 690 N.E.2d 491;  cf., Matter of Sanders v. Bratton, 258 A.D.2d 422, 685 N.Y.S.2d 722).