{"id":1541,"date":"2026-07-08T16:21:51","date_gmt":"2026-07-08T16:21:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/cornell1a.law.cornell.edu\/blog\/?p=1541"},"modified":"2026-07-08T16:27:09","modified_gmt":"2026-07-08T16:27:09","slug":"clinic-sues-gov-hochuls-office-over-delayed-sanitized-release-of-governors-schedules","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cornell1a.law.cornell.edu\/blog\/index.php\/clinic-sues-gov-hochuls-office-over-delayed-sanitized-release-of-governors-schedules\/","title":{"rendered":"Clinic Sues Gov. Hochul’s Office Over Delayed, Sanitized Release of Governor’s Schedules"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

The Cornell First Amendment Clinic represents journalist Chris Bragg and nonprofit news outlet New York Focus in a Freedom of Information Law (FOIL) case <\/a>seeking New York Gov. Kathy Hochul\u2019s schedule and calendars, which the Clinic filed in Albany County Supreme Court on June 30, 2026.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The FOIL requests seek the governor\u2019s daily schedules from October 1, 2024, to present, and the governor\u2019s Outlook calendar and fundraising schedule from October 1 through November 1, 2025. Gov. Hochul\u2019s office, the Executive Chamber, issued a blanket denial of the FOIL requests, claiming that all the records are shielded from public disclosure because they are intra-agency records until the Chamber posts sanitized versions on its website. These web versions of the governor\u2019s calendars contain selected information and are subject to considerable delay \u2014 the most recent schedule available on the site is from September 2024, one year and nine months ago. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cThe public shouldn’t have to settle for a hand-picked highlight reel published nearly two years after the fact. New Yorkers have a right to know how their governor spends her days \u2014 who she meets with, what she prioritizes, and what she doesn’t,\u201d said Clinic local journalism attorney Michael Linhorst. \u201cDemocracy depends on voters being able to see their government at work, not just the parts it chooses to show them.”<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In its initial denial and subsequent appeal denial, the Chamber also cited four additional exemptions, claiming that some unspecified portions were attorney-client privileged, their disclosure would be an unwarranted invasion of personal property or could endanger the life or safety of the governor and her staff, and that they had to be withheld to guarantee the security of technology assets. The Chamber made the same arguments in 2014 when it sought to withhold Gov. Cuomo\u2019s calendars, but it was unsuccessful.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The Clinic seeks a court order requiring the release of the documents.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Watch Chris Bragg discuss the case with Spectrum News here. <\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Read more about the case and view the filings here.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The Cornell First Amendment Clinic represents journalist Chris Bragg and nonprofit news outlet New York Focus in a Freedom of Information Law (FOIL) case seeking New York Gov. Kathy Hochul\u2019s schedule and calendars, which the Clinic filed in Albany County Supreme Court on June 30, 2026. The FOIL requests seek the governor\u2019s daily schedules from […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":14,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[6],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cornell1a.law.cornell.edu\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1541"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cornell1a.law.cornell.edu\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cornell1a.law.cornell.edu\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cornell1a.law.cornell.edu\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/14"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cornell1a.law.cornell.edu\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1541"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/cornell1a.law.cornell.edu\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1541\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1546,"href":"https:\/\/cornell1a.law.cornell.edu\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1541\/revisions\/1546"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cornell1a.law.cornell.edu\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1541"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cornell1a.law.cornell.edu\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1541"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cornell1a.law.cornell.edu\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1541"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}