Dear Ms. Bella:

xNY.io - Bank.org finds the Executive Chamber’s responsive findings to our due diligent request seeking logo records for Moynihan Train Hall at Penn Station as stale.

The Governor of New York State knows what xNY.io - Bank.org is describing or she does not know what xNY.io - Bank.org is describing. There would be responsive records to our kind request, or there would be no records. 

Ms. Bella, are you risking your legal license in a systematic social inflation exercise? 

xNY.io - Bank.org gives the Executive Chamber to this Friday November 22, 2024 at Noon EST. or else we will inspire shock and awe like the Executive Chamber has never seen. 

I have CCd the honorable Ms. Letitia.james@ag.ny.gov, who may know what we are referring to. This Ms. Bella is far from "improper" as the Executive Chamber describes. 

Best,

Gunnar ✌️ 

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Gunnar Larson 

xNY.io - Bank.org 

917-580-8053 

PS: Mr. SATRA, you are foolish to risk your law license, using your name against mine, Gunnar Larson. 

November 19, 2024

Via Email: 

Gunnar Larson (g@xny.io)

RE: FOIL no. R001387-102924

Dear Gunnar Larson:

This letter responds to the appeal you requested dated November 4, 2024

challenging the Executive Chamber’s (the “Chamber”) determination regarding FOIL 

request no. R001387-102924.

1. Background

On or about October 29, 2024, you submitted FOIL request no. R001387-102924 

to the Chamber, which sought: 

Bank.org seeks access to records and information related to logo 

and artwork for Moynihan Train Hall at Penn Station: 

https://m.facebook.com/MoynihanTrainHall/.

By correspondence dated November 4, 2024, the Records Access Officer of the 

Chamber (“RAO”) notified you of its determination that to the extent the request was 

reasonably described, the Chamber is not the custodian of the records sought.

By letter dated November 4, 2024, you submitted an appeal contending that the 

determination was improper.1

2. Determination

The New York Freedom of Information Law’s legislative declaration sets forth 

that “government is the public’s business,” and affords the citizenry the opportunity to 

obtain information relating to the day-to-day functions of the government. Public 

Officers Law § 84, Fink v. Lefkowitz, 47 N.Y.2d 567, 571 (1979). However, the 

disclosure requirement is not unlimited or unfettered. See POL §§ 87, 89. A request 

must be reasonable in view of an agency’s ability to identify, locate and review potentially responsive documents and agencies need only conduct a diligent search of 

available records. As an initial matter, I agree with the RAO that the request is not 

reasonably described, as is required by POL § 89(3). For example, the phrases 

“access ... to information” and “logo and artwork for Moynihan Train Hall” are 

ambiguous and do not provide reasonably sufficient specificity to enable the RAO to 

conduct a search for potentially responsive records. To the extent the request is 

reasonably described and responsive records may exist, the Chamber does not 

maintain the records sought and is not the custodian of records of other agencies. 

The appeal dated November 4, is denied. This decision may be appealed in 

accordance with Article 78 of the Civil Practice Law and Rules. I note that you may 

wish to submit another request for records, in accordance with the Freedom of 

Information Law, to another agency.

 

Very truly yours,

Bella S. Satra

Assistant Counsel to the Governor

FOIL Appeals Officer

 

cc: 

Shoshanah Bewlay, Executive Director, NYS Committee on Open Government 

(Shoshanah.Bewlay@dos.ny.gov)

NYS Executive Chamber Records Access Office (records.access@exec.ny.gov)

On Tue, Nov 19, 2024, 5:35 PM Bella Satra <bella.satra@exec.ny.gov> wrote:

Please see the attached.  The appeal is also attached for reference.

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Bella S. Satra

Assistant Counsel to the Governor

 

New York State Executive Chamber

State Capitol, Rm 214, Albany NY  12224

Office: 518-474-1836 | bella.satra@exec.ny.gov

www.governor.ny.gov