The following is an email message originally posted to the IAJS (International Association of Jewish Genealogical Societies, Inc.) email list and is republished here with permission:
Friday October 23 was the public hearing on the proposed rule on New York City Department of Records and Information Services Proposed Rules On New Fees And Access Requirements. This was announced previously on the IAJGS Records Access Alert in October. If you have not yet sent in your comments this is the time to do so! https://rules.cityofnewyork.us/rule/32136/ where you file your comments online where you can attach your written statement if you want in addition to writing something, or email them to: DORISrules@records.nyc.gov
Comments are accepted until October 30 but they did not place a time end on it so they may cut it off at 12:01 AM EDT best to have them submitted by October 29, 2020 at 11:59 PM. If you have not yet sent in your comments this is the time to do so! Go to: DORISrules@records.nyc.gov.
There were 85 people at the “virtual” hearing with about 18 people testifying. You should know that while they said the comment period was to end October 23 at 5PM, they listed the site closed at 11:00 AM EDT and this was said to be a technical glitch and that comments would be accepted until October 30 with no ending time listed, but presume it to be the end of the day EDT.
To access the previous postings on the IAJGS Records Access Alert about the NYC DORIS/Municipal Archives go to the archives of the IAJGS Records Access Alert at: http://lists.iajgs.org/mailman/private/records-access-alerts/. You must be registered to access the archives. To register go to: http://lists.iajgs.org/mailman/listinfo/records-access-alerts and follow the instructions to enter your email address, full name and which genealogical organization with whom you are affiliated. You will receive an email response that you have to reply to or the subscription will not be finalized.
Jan Meisels Allen
Chairperson, IAJGS Public Records Access Monitoring Committee