Two city officials have been court-ordered to testify next month about why the Department of Environmental Protection told 9/11 victim advocates the city didn’t have any records on Lower Manhattan air quality after the 2001 terrorist attack, before backtracking and turning over 68 boxes of documents.
Advocacy group 9/11 Health Watch celebrated Manhattan Supreme Court Judge James Clyne’s May decision forcing officials to testify. Attorney Andrew Carboy said the group was glad it had those 68 boxes of records now, but felt the public deserved an explanation as to how and why the city initially told advocates who filed Freedom of Information Act requests for the records it didn’t have anything to share from the months following the attack when it actually had hundreds of thousands of documents, calling it extremely concerning.
