New York City Agency FOIL Request and Open Data Release Status

A list of datasets identified via New York City's Freedom of Information Law (FOIL) reporting, detailing their release statuses on the city's open data portal. The dataset is maintained by data.cityofnewyork.us and was last updated in September 2025. It tracks agency compliance with open data mandates under Local Law 11 of 2012.

Use Cases

• Analyze trends in 'Number of FOIL requests' per 'Agency Name' to identify high-demand unpublished data.
• Filter 'Report Year' to track annual changes in the 'Is the data set on Open Data?' status for specific 'Data Set Name' entries.
• Review 'Public Statement from your agency explaining why this data is not being published' to categorize common reasons for non-release.
• Use 'NYC Open Data URL' and 'Data Set Description' to inventory and link to publicly available datasets.

Strengths

• Includes a 'Report Year' column for temporal analysis of compliance trends.
• Provides specific fields like 'Number of FOIL requests' and agency statements for direct accountability assessment.

Limitations

• Unknown total row count and sample size limits statistical analysis.
• Lacks explicit temporal coverage range beyond the 'Report Year' column.
• Key metrics like dataset size and update frequency are unspecified.

Provenance

Source

data.cityofnewyork.us

Collection Method

Compiled via agency FOIL reporting mandated by Local Law 11 of 2012.

Time Range

Covered by the 'Report Year' column; specific range is null.

Freshness

Last updated on 2025-09-15.

Geography

New York City government agencies.