FOIL deadline calculator

NY FOIL Deadline Calculator

Pick a jurisdiction, enter when the request arrived, then add what has happened — acknowledgments, extensions, denials, appeals and more. Every deadline below is computed by the same statutory clock engine that runs FOIAdesk, in business days with the pack's public holidays excluded.

Jurisdiction / statute pack

Request received — date

Time (optional)

Status as of

What has happened on this request?

No events yet. Add an acknowledgment, extension, denial, appeal — any step that has occurred — and the engine recomputes every deadline.

Add an event

Fee payment received — No fee prepayment has been demanded — a fee payment can only be recorded after a prepayment demand (R-702).
Clarified resubmission — Record the agency's clarification request first — a clarified resubmission can only follow a request to narrow the original (R-701).
Appeal received — There is nothing to appeal yet — record a written denial (or let a constructive denial accrue) before an appeal can be received (R-601).
Appeal determined — Record the appeal as received first — an appeal cannot be determined before it exists (R-605).
Appeal remanded — Record the appeal as received first — there is no appeal to remand yet (R-652).

Computed by the FOIAdesk statutory clock engine — the same engine that runs the product. Assumes a 9:00 am – 5:00 pm office; requests arriving after hours or on weekends/holidays count as received the next business day at opening (the Committee on Open Government's published rule). Your agency's own closure days are not included here. The rule IDs shown beside each date reference spec/clock/rules.md.

How the math works

Under Public Officers Law §89(3)(a), an agency has five business days from receipt of a written request to grant access, deny it in writing, or send a written acknowledgment that states an approximate response date. COOG guidance reads the statute as capping that approximate date at twenty business days after the acknowledgment; needing longer requires a written explanation and a date certain. Missing any of these marks is a constructive denial the requester can appeal immediately — and appeals must be decided within ten business days of receipt, with copies of both appeal and determination sent to the Committee on Open Government.

The business-day calendar excludes weekends and New York public holidays (General Construction Law §24), including the Sunday-observance shift. Some municipalities also observe Lincoln's Birthday and Election Day closures differently — check your agency's calendar.

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This calculator is a planning aid, not legal advice. Deadline outcomes can turn on facts a calculator cannot see — receipt disputes, tolling, agency-specific closures. Consult your agency's counsel for determinations that matter.

FOIAdesk tracks these clocks automatically — every request, every department, every appeal, with escalating reminders before anything goes red. Learn more →