New York State Commission on Government Integrity General Information Files
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Overview of the Records
Repository
- New York State Archives
222 Madison Avenue
Albany, NY 12230
Summary
- This series served as a general reference file for commission activities. Records document Commission activities related to the investigation of corruption, campaign financing, judicial selection, and patronage, as well as activities promoting efficiency in government and personnel reforms. Included are background information on state legislators; charts on ethics training in New York City agencies; invitation lists; hearing records; budgets; press releases; correspondence; and commission history, minutes, and reports. Also included are reference materials regarding subpoenas, legislative authority, jurisdiction, FOIL, and issues of confidentiality.
Title
- Commission on Government Integrity general information files
Quantity
- 3 cubic feet
Inclusive Dates
Series Number
- 15830
Creator
Arrangement
Arranged by topic or record type.
Scope and Content Note
This series served as a general reference file for commission activities.
15830-90: This accretion includes: memoranda on automated document tracking to help commission staff track documents in its possession and subpoenaed documents; summary information on state legislators; charts summarizing ethics training in New York City agencies; memoranda regarding arrangement of office space and staff telephone numbers; lists of commission hearings and commission reports; commission budgets and budget projections; invitation lists, press releases, and correspondence with participants in forums and hearings held by the commission regarding campaign financing, judicial selection, patronage, and contracting; commission activity history; and lists of materials requested (e.g. commission reports) and names and addresses of individuals requesting these materials.
15830-92: This accretion includes: bibliographies, analyses, and copies of articles relating to political corruption; selected copies of commission press releases; follow-up memoranda and preliminary report on 1989 New York City patronage hearings; copies of various reports on promoting efficiency in government and personnel reforms; copies of blank subpoena forms and materials on the basis of subpoena power, scope of legislative authority for investigative actions, determining jurisdiction, issues of confidentiality, Freedom of Information, and Moreland Act; and review of commission minutes, 1987-1989.
Access Restrictions
Restricted in accordance with Civil Rights Law, Section 73.8, and other statutes. Public hearing transcripts, press releases, published material, and other records that have been previously available to the public are available without restriction. Access to other information is permitted only by permission of the commission or the Governor's office.
Access Terms
Corporate Name(s)
Geographic Name(s)
- New York (State)--Officials and employees--Discipline
- New York (State)
- New York (N.Y.)
- New York (N.Y.)--Officials and employees--Discipline
Subject(s)
- Misconduct in office--New York (State)--New York
- Political ethics--New York (State)--New York
- Governmental investigations
- Ethics
- Misconduct in office--New York (State)
- Political ethics
- Ethics--New York (State)--New York