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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]The law should be changed so that these records are not available to the public in general.

For example, these are the rules to get a copy of a marriage license in NYC. There should be something similar for the death certificate. It would be better to have those records anonymized, where you could get general statistics of how many people die of certain things. No reason for it to be public.

Who is eligible to order a certified copy of a marriage record?

People eligible to get a marriage certificate:

Spouses
    Other people who have a:
        documented judicial or other proper purpose
        New York State Court Order

If you are not a spouse, you must document a judicial or other proper purpose. For example, you may need a marriage certificate to claim a benefit. You would need an official letter from the agency saying that you need the marriage record to process the claim.[/quote]

I disagree with death, marriage and divorce records being private. They should not be. Redact any PII, but they should be releasable. There's lot of reasons they're needed. The biggest one is so that cheaters can be found out easier. [/quote]

Police reports should not be public because they’re full of lies. They’re just information the police collected at the scene. Statements are often false or lies.

A police investigation on the other hand that has facts in it should be public.[/quote]

I do not want to see police reports. It would also take A LOT of public funds to make them all public. Just sifting through PII to release them all is $$$.[/quote]

Former county attorney here - it does take public funds to respond to FOIA requests and municipalities are allowed by law to charge reasonable fees for copies of records provided.

Are you an American? Just wondering why you’d have an attitude that public records shouldn’t be provided due to cost. This is a freedom of speech issue and a functional democracy issue and the FOIA laws were a hard won accomplishment for the people and their right to transparency in government.

Police reports from an incident scene are the first step in a police investigation - this case as I understand it is still under investigation.

With all that we’ve learned as a society about police misconduct and the need for reform, it is hard to grasp why anyone would argue for greater restrictions on police public records.[/quote]

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