Part of New York’s Freedom of Information Law requires each state agency to maintain up-to-date “subject matter lists” — indexes of all records maintained by the agency — and to post them on the Internet. But a study of 86 New York state agencies by the Press & Sun-Bulletin found 9 in 10 were not in compliance with that part of the law. Two-thirds of the agencies had not posted a subject matter list online at all, and others were years out of date.
