Mayor Bill de Blasio has stonewalled again on releasing public records, a parent charges.
Brooke Parker, whose daughter is a student in a building that houses two schools, will file a lawsuit in Manhattan Supreme Court on Monday, charging the mayor took two years to release a 2015 “decision memo” on how the city should plan construction to ease overcrowding and reduce class size, her lawyer said.
But the memo was so heavily redacted — nearly all blacked out — it was meaningless, the suit complains.
“This is an utterly worthless document,” said attorney Laura Barbieri, who cites case law arguing the full memo is a public record.
It’s the latest in a series of suits alleging the city violates the state Freedom of Information Law. Last month, a social advocacy group sued the Department of Education for failing — after a year — to fulfill requests for information about homeless students.
In April, the Post settled a landmark suit against the DOE, which agreed to halt its endless postponements and adhere to deadlines.
As a candidate for mayor, de Blasio had vowed to improve the city’s FOIL response and transparency.
City Hall spokeswoman Jaclyn Rothenberg responded, “Decision memos are intra-agency communications that predominantly include information that is exempt from disclosure under FOIL.”