New York State Assembly Office of Legislative Oversight and Analysis Correspondence and Subject Files L0015

New York State Assembly Office of Legislative Oversight and Analysis Correspondence and Subject Files

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Overview of the Records

Repository:

New York State Archives
New York State Education Department
Cultural Education Center
Albany, NY 12230

Summary:

This series consists of correspondence, memorandums, reports, newspaper clippings, testimony, and press releases on issues examined by the Assembly Office of Legislative Oversight and Analysis. The records relate to critical public policy issues including State Police non-criminal investigations; the 1970's New York City fiscal crisis; protecting newsrooms from unannounced searches; corporate corruption and tax loopholes; the safety of the Long Island Railroad; and the affordable housing program.

Creator:

New York (State). Legislature. Assembly. Office of Legislative Oversight and Analysis

Title:

State Assembly Office of Legislative Oversight and Analysis correspondence and subject files

Quantity:

7 cubic feet

Inclusive Dates:

1975-1979

Bulk Dates:

bulk 1976-1978

Series Number:

L0015

Arrangement

Alphabetical by subject.

Scope and Content Note

The series contains material produced or received by the Assembly Office of Legislative Oversight and Analysis during five years of its investigations assisting the Assembly Speaker and several Assembly committees. The records include correspondence, memoranda, draft and published reports, numerous clippings from newspapers, a small amount of hearing testimony, and press releases.

A substantial amount of the correspondence is between the Office and individuals giving testimony before various Assembly committees. The records document the contact the Office had with a wide range of individuals, principally Assembly Speaker Steingut, various members of the Assembly, other state government agencies, and members of the New York State Congressional delegation.

The records relate to the most significant issues being examined by the Assembly and the Office of Legislative Oversight and Analysis. The largest portions of the records relate to the following topics: New York State Police activities in gathering a large body of information about people who had committed no crime and were not even suspected of committing a crime.

The records include reports on a number of aspects of the State Police investigations and correspondence and memoranda between the Office and the State Police, the FBI, and Members of the Assembly, especially Assemblyman Mark Siegel; the New York City fiscal crisis, especially the downturn in the city's municipal bond rating in the mid-1970's; a 1978 Assembly bill aimed at protecting newsrooms from unannounced police searchers (mostly hearing testimony); corporate corruption and tax loopholes; the operation and safety of the Long Island Railroad; the New York City Housing and Development Administration, especially a program to encourage affordable middle income housing; and other issues such as health care, nursing homes, Medicaid administration, the state's lottery, mortgage lending by banks, and a windfall profit scandal in day care center construction.