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There are a million stories in the naked city, but several hundred of them gestate, waiting to be born, in the public records office at the nation鈥檚 largest school district.

蜜桃影视 reported Thursday that the New York City Department of Education has failed to respond to more than 500 records requests submitted between March 3, 2014, and Aug. 25, 2017, in most cases sending monthly letters 鈥� often for years 鈥� extending the expected delivery date by 20 business days.

The state鈥檚 requires government agencies to provide or deny records within or provide a 鈥渄ate certain鈥� for delivery if more time is needed. Robert Freeman, executive director of the Committee on Open Government, a state agency that oversees FOIL, has called the Department of Education鈥檚 practices 鈥�terrible.鈥�

Freeman believes that more user-friendly guidelines recently proposed by the department 鈥渞epresent improvements鈥� that could lead to 鈥渇ewer unreasonable and unjustifiable delays.鈥�

The reasons for the unanswered requests aren鈥檛 self-evident. What鈥檚 clear is that responses are delayed without respect for position or common practice.

Officials know they may be asked to provide their daily schedules, for instance 鈥� it鈥檚 a standard request, whether by local weeklies or large news organizations. The release of public schedules recently helped force the resignation of Health and Human Services Secretary Tom Price .

Yet an April 14, 2015, request by Politico education reporter Eliza Shapiro for three months of Schools Chancellor Carmen Fari帽a鈥檚 daily schedule has remained unfilled for 626 business days, as 蜜桃影视 reported in two earlier stories.

蜜桃影视 asked for Mayor Bill de Blasio鈥檚 2017 calendar on June 14 of this year through Open Records, a city portal for filing and searching requests to city agencies. The mayor鈥檚 office said the information would be provided on Aug. 25 but later pushed the date back to Oct. 20, a 90-day turnaround if the city meets its own deadline.

Also interesting are the less self-conscious requests from those in schools communities: students, parents, teachers, and others, often with their names redacted because of privacy issues. These requests 鈥� in the summarized form provided by the Department of Education 鈥� sometimes call to mind an exercise in which the writer is given a sentence and asked to create a story.

• They can be CSI-like: 鈥淧er request 鈥� Video Recording 鈥� I.S. 51 Edwin Markham 鈥� cameras located the Main Office and in the hallway near the Main Office from 10:00 a.m. to 12 p.m., May 11, 2016.鈥�

• More of an appeal to a higher power than a traditional FOIL: 鈥淚 am the secretary of Brooklyn Technical High School鈥檚 Black Student Union. Our club understands that the Action Plan that we helped form to address the concerns highlighted in the #BlackinBrooklynTech movement is still being kept confidential.鈥�

• Inducing sympathy for the DOE鈥檚 lack of response: 鈥淚 hereby request documents that record the 25 dollar fee I paid to take the GED exam at the DOE building. The year was 1993; also the mailing address of VESID,鈥� a former state agency that provided vocational services.

• Completist: 鈥淧ursuant to the New York Freedom of Information Law, please send me by email, copies of any and all materials produced, obtained, received, modified, sent, distributed, maintained, or recorded by the Office of Special Investigations.鈥�

• Oddly focused: 鈥淎ll completed agreement鈥檚 [sic] and contracts with the following sites to provide their UPK (universal pre-K) program for the 2015/16 school years: 1. Zion Day Care; 2. Shalva UPK 1; Gan Day Care; 4. Mevakshei Hashem; 5. Talmud Torah Ohr Moshe; 6. United Academy 鈥� Harrison Avenue.鈥�

The New York Post sued the city in 2016 after failing to receive responses for months or years to several requests. Lawyers said Post reporters 鈥渁re left in limbo 鈥� their requests neither granted nor denied 鈥� with the only certainty being the receipt of another monthly Form Delay Letter from Respondents gifting themselves more time and abdicating their statutory duty to make their records available to the public.鈥�

鈥淎ll the while,鈥� the lawsuit said, 鈥渢he Petitioners and the public are left in the dark about the workings and failings of their government. 鈥�

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