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Displaying 171 Finding Aids
Title
- Department of Environmental Conservation Office of Counsel water pollution control case files
Series Number
- 10407
Summary
- This is an incomplete series of case files documenting legal action brought by the Department of Environmental Conservation against water polluters, usually municipalities or businesses (accused parties' names fall between F and L). The files, which document the entire enforcement process, contain notices of hearings, findings, correspondence, transcripts of hearings, memoranda, rough notes from meetings, maps, case reports, petitions, complaints, registered mail receipts, and a small number of photographs. The whereabouts of the remaining case files is unknown.
Creator
- New York (State). Department of Environmental Conservation. Office of General Counsel
Access Restrictions
- There are no restrictions regarding access to or use of this material.
Title
- Transit Commission case files and minutes
Series Number
- 19595
Summary
- The series consists of microfilm copies of minutes of meetings and case files of the Transit Commission dating from 1921 through 1943 (when it was abolished). Also included is "supplemental case file material" (those documents not filmed because of size or condition, including maps, drawings and/or exhibits; or materials filmed, but for which the film was found to be of poor quality).
Creator
- New York (State). Public Service Commission
Access Restrictions
- There are no restrictions regarding access to or use of this material.
Title
- Office of Mental Health patient case files on microfilm
Series Number
- B2888
Summary
- This series consists of microfilm copies of documents pertaining to the admission, legal status, assessment, treatment planning, treatment, and discharge of patients receiving care at Office of Mental Health psychiatric facilities.
Creator
- New York (State). Office of Mental Health
Access Restrictions
- Restricted in accordance with Mental Hygiene Law, Section 33.13, relating to confidentiality of clinical records. Access is permitted under certain conditions upon approval by the Office of Mental Health.
Title
- First District case files
Series Number
- 19594
Summary
- The series consists of microfilm copies of the case files of the First District Public Service Commission (1907-1921), with jurisdiction in New York City, and case files. Also included is so-called "supplemental case file material" (those materials not filmed because of size or condition, including maps, drawings and/or exhibits; or materials filmed but for which the film was found to be of poor quality). Case files typically include petitions, briefs, orders, correspondence, exhibits and testimony.
Creator
- New York (State). Public Service Commission
Access Restrictions
- There are no restrictions regarding access to or use of the material.
Title
- Bank liquidation case files
Series Number
- 13858
Summary
- This series documents the activities of the Banking Department in the interim between assuming possession of institutions and their closings. Records were created by liquidating agents appointed by the banking superintendent to investigate outstanding mortgages and loans.
Creator
- New York (State). Banking Department
Access Restrictions
- Access to records in this series is partially restricted in accordance with multiple state and federal laws. State Archives staff will review requests for specific documents and disclose in accordance with New York State Freedom of Information Law.
Title
- Sullivan Correctional Facility inmate case files
Series Number
- W0050
Summary
- Sullivan Correctional Facility, located in Sullivan County, N.Y., is a maximum security correctional facility for male felons. Inmate case files describe in great detail the family and social background, arrest, confinement, and release/parole of incarcerated men.
Creator
- New York (State). Department of Correctional Services
- Sullivan Correctional Facility
Access Restrictions
- Summary information on adult inmates is disclosable under law. State Archives staff will review records containing probation, parole, medical, and juvenile criminal history data and disclose information pursuant to the Freedom of Information Law and Personal Privacy Protection Law. The identity of victims of sex crimes is not disclosable. Unless a specific law forbids disclosure indefinitely, all records must be disclosed after 75 years.
New York State Department of Correctional Services Rochester Correctional Facility Inmate Case Files
Title
- Rochester Correctional Facility inmate case files
Series Number
- W0046
Summary
- Rochester Correctional Facility, located in Monroe County, N.Y., is a minimum security correctional facility for male felons. Inmate case files describe in great detail the family and social background, arrest, confinement, and release/parole of incarcerated men.
Creator
- New York (State). Department of Correctional Services
Access Restrictions
- Summary information on adult inmates is disclosable under law. State Archives staff will review records containing probation, parole, medical, and juvenile criminal history data and disclose information pursuant to the Freedom of Information Law and Personal Privacy Protection Law. The identity of victims of sex crimes is not disclosable. Unless a specific law forbids disclosure indefinitely, all records must be disclosed after 75 years.
Title
- Taconic Correctional Facility inmate case files
Series Number
- W0052
Summary
- Taconic Correctional Facility, located in Westchester County, N.Y., is a medium security correctional facility for female felons. Inmate case files describe in great detail the family and social background, arrest, confinement, and release/parole of incarcerated women.
Creator
- New York (State). Department of Correctional Services
Access Restrictions
- Summary information on adult inmates is disclosable under law. State Archives staff will review records containing probation, parole, medical, and juvenile criminal history data and disclose information pursuant to the Freedom of Information Law and Personal Privacy Protection Law. The identity of victims of sex crimes is not disclosable. Unless a specific law forbids disclosure indefinitely, all records must be disclosed after 75 years.
Title
- Register of children of widows committed to institutions by children's court justices in New York and Bronx counties
Series Number
- A3110
Summary
- The series lists information on cases of children of widows in New York and Bronx counties who were committed to institutions by children's court justices. The extracts include information on children, mostly teenagers, who were committed for theft, assault, truancy, immorality, parental neglect, or other reasons. Column headings for information includes case number; sex; age; color; religion; nationality of parent; nationality of child; offense for which committed; source of facts/complaint; and reasons justifying complaint.
Creator
- New York (State). Commission on Relief for Widowed Mothers
Access Restrictions
- There are no restrictions regarding access to or use of the material.
Title
- Auburn Prison incarcerated individual parole files
Series Number
- B0082
Summary
- This series contains records created or compiled by the State Board of Parole in relation to parole of incarcerated individuals from Auburn Prison. For each individual applying for parole, there is a folder with records documenting the entire process of parole from admission into the state correctional system through release on parole and return to confinement for any parole violation.
Creator
- New York (State). Board of Parole
Access Restrictions
- Summary information on adult incarcerated individuals is disclosable under law. State Archives staff will review records containing probation, parole, medical, and juvenile criminal history data and disclose information pursuant to the Freedom of Information Law and Personal Privacy Protection Law. The identity of victims of sex crimes is not disclosable. Unless a specific law forbids disclosure indefinitely, all records must be disclosed after 75 years.
Title
- Board on Electric Generation Sitting and the Environment project application case files
Series Number
- B2911
Summary
- This series consists of case files created by the Board on Electric Generation Sitting and the Environment in the process of reviewing applications to construct and site major electric generating facilities.
Creator
- New York State Board on Electric Generation Siting and the Environment
Access Restrictions
- Critical infrastructure information about power generation and transmission facilities is exempt from disclosure under the Freedom of Information Law, section 86.5 and 87.2(i).
Title
- Wallkill Correctional Facility inmate case files
Series Number
- W0054
Summary
- Wallkill Correctional Facility, located in Ulster County, N.Y., is a medium security correctional facility for male felons. Inmate case files describe in great detail the family and social background, arrest, confinement, and release/parole of incarcerated men.
Creator
- New York (State). Department of Correctional Services
Access Restrictions
- Summary information on adult inmates is disclosable under law. State Archives staff will review records containing probation, parole, medical, and juvenile criminal history data and disclose information pursuant to the Freedom of Information Law and Personal Privacy Protection Law. The identity of victims of sex crimes is not disclosable. Unless a specific law forbids disclosure indefinitely, all records must be disclosed after 75 years.
Title
- Oneida Correctional Facility inmate case files
Series Number
- W0040
Summary
- Oneida Correctional Facility (1988-2011), located in Oneida County, N.Y., was a medium security correctional facility for male felons. Inmate case files describe in great detail the family and social background, arrest, confinement, and release/parole of incarcerated men.
Creator
- New York (State). Department of Correctional Services
- Oneida Correctional Facility
Access Restrictions
- Summary information on adult inmates is disclosable under law. State Archives staff will review records containing probation, parole, medical, and juvenile criminal history data and disclose information pursuant to the Freedom of Information Law and Personal Privacy Protection Law. The identity of victims of sex crimes is not disclosable. Unless a specific law forbids disclosure indefinitely, all records must be disclosed after 75 years.
Title
- New York State Industrial Commissioner Bureau of Public Work wage claim case files
Series Number
- B0322
Summary
- This series consists of claims filed against government employers (or their contractors) by laborers, workmen, and mechanics employed on public work projects. Under Article 8 of the State Labor Law, claims could be filed against government employers (or their contractors) for non-payment of prevailing wage rates, non-payment of premium pay (overtime), or non-payment of the prevailing rate of supplements (benefits). The series includes hearing reports and recommendations, copies of orders and determinations, correspondence, and inter-office memorandums.
Creator
- New York (State). Industrial Commissioner
Access Restrictions
- There are no restrictions regarding access to or use of this material.
New York State Department of Correctional Services Watertown Correctional Facility Inmate Case Files
Title
- Watertown Correctional Facility inmate case files
Series Number
- W0056
Summary
- Watertown Correctional Facility, located in Jefferson County, N.Y., is a medium security correctional facility for male felons. Inmate case files describe in great detail the family and social background, arrest, confinement, and release/parole of incarcerated men.
Creator
- New York (State). Department of Correctional Services
Access Restrictions
- Summary information on adult inmates is disclosable under law. State Archives staff will review records containing probation, parole, medical, and juvenile criminal history data and disclose information pursuant to the Freedom of Information Law and Personal Privacy Protection Law. The identity of victims of sex crimes is not disclosable. Unless a specific law forbids disclosure indefinitely, all records must be disclosed after 75 years.
New York State Department of Correctional Services Otisville Correctional Facility Inmate Case Files
Title
- Otisville Correctional Facility inmate case files
Series Number
- W0042
Summary
- Otisville Correctional Facility, located in Orange County, N.Y., is a medium security correctional facility for male felons. Inmate case files describe in great detail the family and social background, arrest, confinement, and release/parole of incarcerated men.
Creator
- New York (State). Department of Correctional Services
Access Restrictions
- Summary information on adult inmates is disclosable under law. State Archives staff will review records containing probation, parole, medical, and juvenile criminal history data and disclose information pursuant to the Freedom of Information Law and Personal Privacy Protection Law. The identity of victims of sex crimes is not disclosable. Unless a specific law forbids disclosure indefinitely, all records must be disclosed after 75 years.
Title
- Upstate Correctional Facility inmate case files
Series Number
- W0062
Summary
- Upstate Correctional Facility is a maximum security state prison for men in Franklin County, New York. The prison, in Town of Malone, was the first New York State prison built as a supermax prison. Upstate C.F. was established in 1998 to house special prisoners with a history of assaultive behavior. Programs available to the prisoners are based on the acceptance of the established rules and other behavior indicating a degree of social conformity. Approximately 350 corrections officers, aided by more than 1000 remote cameras, supervise about 1300 prisoners.
Creator
- New York (State). Department of Correctional Services
- Upstate Correctional Facility
Access Restrictions
- Summary information on adult inmates is disclosable under law. State Archives staff will review records containing probation, parole, medical, and juvenile criminal history data and disclose information pursuant to the Freedom of Information Law and Personal Privacy Protection Law. The identity of victims of sex crimes is not disclosable. Unless a specific law forbids disclosure indefinitely, all records must be disclosed after 75 years.
Title
- Office of Mental Health Medical Records Office patient case files master negative microfilm
Series Number
- 19349
Summary
- Series consists of microfilm of patient case files maintained by the State's mental health facilities. A typical file may contain admission/commitment papers, legal documents, psychiatric evaluations, patient case summaries, correspondence, medical notes/observations, and discharge related documents.
Creator
- New York (State). Office of Mental Health. Medical Records Office
Access Restrictions
- Restricted in accordance with Mental Hygiene Law, Section 33.13, relating to confidentiality of clinical records. Access is permitted under certain conditions upon approval by the Office of Mental Health.
Title
- Execution files
Series Number
- 21832
Summary
- This series consists of 250 files for incarcerated individuals executed for capital crimes. These are not complete case files but administrative files pertinent to their actual executions. Each file typically contains identifying documents; correspondence; blotter records; notices of stays and respites of execution; and copies of court orders and other legal documents.
Creator
- New York (State). Department of Correction
Access Restrictions
- Summary information on adult incarcerated individuals is disclosable under law. State Archives staff will review records containing probation, parole, medical, and juvenile criminal history data and disclose information pursuant to the Freedom of Information Law and Personal Privacy Protection Law. The identity of victims of sex crimes is not disclosable. Unless a specific law forbids disclosure indefinitely, all records must be disclosed after 75 years.
Title
- Human Rights Appeal Board case files
Series Number
- 15002
Summary
- This series consists of files of cases appealed to the State Human Rights Appeal Board. A typical file contains the complainant's appeal, notice of appeal to respondent, notice of hearing, briefs, supporting depositions, copies of documents from original case folder, decision and order, board transmittal sheet, opinions, correspondence and memorandums, and staff work sheet. Some files also include documents from subsequent appeals to the New York State Supreme Court Appellate Division.
Creator
- New York State Human Rights Appeal Board
Access Restrictions
- Restricted in part. Disclosable documents from original case folder include the initial complaint and the final determination. Other documents will be disclosed as permitted by the New York State Freedom of Information Law (Public Officers Law Art. 6).