Appellate Division of the Supreme Court of the State of New York June 27, 1996 (Rabinowitz v. Hammons)

Petitioner, an academic researcher, commenced this proceeding to review respondent’s denial of a FOIL request which sought disclosure, in redacted form, of approximately 1,900 intake referral forms maintained by the Visiting Psychiatric Service (VPS), a unit of respondent’s Office of Health and Mental Health Services, in order to perform a statistical study of decision-making.