NY S06816

Clarifies that agencies cannot deny FOIL requests based on volume, burden, or insufficient staffing if an outside professional service can be engaged to provide copying or programming services with recoverable costs.

Requires agencies to provide written certification requirements when persons request lists of names and residential addresses, ensuring requesters will not use such information for solicitation, fundraising, or sell the lists to others.

Amends notification procedures to require agencies to inform requesters when a response will be given (rather than when a request will be granted or denied) within five business days of receipt.

Modifies the 20-business-day deadline language to allow agencies to state when a determination regarding disclosure will be rendered, rather than when a request will be granted in whole or in part.

Specifies that retrieving or extracting records from computer systems and transferring them to a requested format does not constitute creation of a new record and is required when it requires less employee time than manual retrieval.