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Re:NYPD rejects request for its freedom of information handbook by flibertgibit on Sunday February 16, 2014 @10:23PM (#7250471)
There probably is no FOIA guide there or in many parts of government. It isn't a big enough priority to spend time coming up with a process.
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Re:NYPD rejects request for its freedom of information handbook by justinpombrio on Sunday February 16, 2014 @10:28PM (#7250494)
Their response implies indicates that it does exist:

"This request is denied because the records you requested were prepared by an NYPD attorney..."

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Re:NYPD rejects request for its freedom of information handbook by iamwithnail on Monday February 17, 2014 @03:41AM (#7251151)
The NYPD gets thousands of requests. NYC get, on these figures, at least 40,000 a year. Known requests to the NYPD in a shortened period were ~1900.

http://advocate.nyc.gov/sites/advocate.nyc.gov/files/deBlasi...

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