ALBANY - Protection and advocacy organizations that contract with the state to monitor the treatment of disabled people do not have the same unfettered access to client records as government agencies, a deeply divided Court of Appeals has held.
The court’s 4-3 ruling in Matter of Albany Law School v. New York State Office of Mental Retardation and Developmental Disabilities, 65, overturns two decades of practice and means that advocacy groups have only the access provided under federal law and are not entitled to broader access under state law.
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