New York State Board of Public Disclosure Subject and Correspondence Files

Records are unarranged and unprocessed.

The series consists of incoming and outgoing correspondence, memorandums, meeting agendas, minutes of board meetings, newspaper clippings, copies of published articles, drafts of speeches, and related material in support or clarification of financial disclosure procedures, requirements, statements, or requests for exemptions as mandated by the state's ethics law. Financial disclosure statements are not included. The Board of Public Disclosure was required to file all annual financial disclosure statements with the Department of State for public inspection.

The ethics law generally established standards of conduct, set restrictions on post-employment activities of former state employees, and required filing of financial disclosure statements from employees holding policy-making positions. The records in this series document the operations, policies, and decisions of those boards which preceded the current State Ethics Commission.

Files for the years 1977-1982 are not extant because none were created while the legal issues surrounding Executive Order 10.1 were debated in the Court of Appeals, and Governor Carey's 1979 legislative initiative concerning upper-level executive branch employees was never realized. Files for 1981-1982 were destroyed without authorization.

There are no restrictions regarding access to or use of this material.