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New York celebrates Sunshine Week

By Julia Taylor

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Kingston, NY – It's Sunshine Week in New York - a week to celebrate freedom of information law and public access to government meetings and documents. Most documents are available to the public upon request - but sometimes, officials balk at fulfilling those requests. WAMC's Hudson Valley Bureau chief Julia Taylor reports on how the Sunshine Law is used in reportage at the local level.