2023 New York Laws › PBO - Public Officers › Article 6 - Freedom of Information Law › 86 - Definitions.

§ 86. Definitions.  As  used  in  this  article,  unless  the  context
requires otherwise:
1. "Judiciary" means the courts of the state, including any  municipal
or district court, whether or not of record.
2. "State legislature" means the legislature of the state of New York,
including   any   committee,   subcommittee,   joint  committee,  select
committee, or commission thereof.
3. "Agency" means any state or municipal  department,  board,  bureau,
division,  commission,  committee, public authority, public corporation,
council, office or other governmental entity performing  a  governmental
or  proprietary function for the state or any one or more municipalities
thereof, except the judiciary or the state legislature.
4. "Record" means any  information  kept,  held,  filed,  produced  or
reproduced  by,  with  or for an agency or the state legislature, in any
physical  form  whatsoever  including,  but  not  limited  to,  reports,
statements,  examinations,  memoranda,  opinions, folders, files, books,
manuals, pamphlets, forms,  papers,  designs,  drawings,  maps,  photos,
letters,  microfilms,  computer  tapes  or  discs, rules, regulations or
codes.
5. "Critical infrastructure" means systems, assets, places or  things,
whether  physical or virtual, so vital to the state that the disruption,
incapacitation or destruction of such systems, assets, places or  things
could  jeopardize  the health, safety, welfare or security of the state,
its residents or its economy.
6. "Law enforcement disciplinary records" means any record created  in
furtherance of a law enforcement disciplinary proceeding, including, but
not limited to:
(a) the complaints, allegations, and charges against an employee;
(b) the name of the employee complained of or charged;
(c) the transcript of any disciplinary trial or hearing, including any
exhibits introduced at such trial or hearing;
(d) the disposition of any disciplinary proceeding; and
(e) the final written opinion or memorandum supporting the disposition
and  discipline imposed including the agency's complete factual findings
and its analysis of  the  conduct  and  appropriate  discipline  of  the
covered employee.
7. "Law enforcement disciplinary proceeding" means the commencement of
any  investigation  and  any  subsequent  hearing or disciplinary action
conducted by a law enforcement agency.
8. "Law enforcement agency" means a police agency or department of the
state or any political subdivision  thereof,  including  authorities  or
agencies  maintaining  police  forces  of  individuals defined as police
officers in section 1.20 of the  criminal  procedure  law,  a  sheriff's
department,  the  department of corrections and community supervision, a
local department of correction, a local  probation  department,  a  fire
department,   or  force  of  individuals  employed  as  firefighters  or
firefighter/paramedics.
9. "Technical infraction" means a minor rule  violation  by  a  person
employed  by  a  law  enforcement agency as defined in this section as a
police officer, peace officer, or firefighter or  firefighter/paramedic,
solely  related  to the enforcement of administrative departmental rules
that (a) do not involve interactions with members of the public, (b) are
not of public concern, and (c)  are  not  otherwise  connected  to  such
person's investigative, enforcement, training, supervision, or reporting
responsibilities.
10.  "Retiree"  means  a  former officer or employee of an agency, the
state legislature, or the  judiciary  who  was  a  member  of  a  public
retirement  system  of the state, as such term is defined in subdivision

twenty-three of section five hundred one of the  retirement  and  social
security  law  and  is receiving, or entitled to receive, a benefit from
such public retirement system.
11.  "Beneficiary" means a person designated by a member or retiree of
a public retirement system of the state to receive retirement  or  death
benefits following the death of the member or retiree.