Research

Scope and Content Note

This series served as a general reference file for commission activities.

15830-90: This accretion includes: memoranda on automated document tracking to help commission staff track documents in its possession and subpoenaed documents; summary information on state legislators; charts summarizing ethics training in New York City agencies; memoranda regarding arrangement of office space and staff telephone numbers; lists of commission hearings and commission reports; commission budgets and budget projections; invitation lists, press releases, and correspondence with participants in forums and hearings held by the commission regarding campaign financing, judicial selection, patronage, and contracting; commission activity history; and lists of materials requested (e.g. commission reports) and names and addresses of individuals requesting these materials.

15830-92: This accretion includes: bibliographies, analyses, and copies of articles relating to political corruption; selected copies of commission press releases; follow-up memoranda and preliminary report on 1989 New York City patronage hearings; copies of various reports on promoting efficiency in government and personnel reforms; copies of blank subpoena forms and materials on the basis of subpoena power, scope of legislative authority for investigative actions, determining jurisdiction, issues of confidentiality, Freedom of Information, and Moreland Act; and review of commission minutes, 1987-1989.