N.Y. Labor Law § 804: Reports; confidential information

§ 804. Reports; confidential information. A board of inquiry shall,

after investigation, make a final report to the commissioner as to the

matters referred to it and may make interim reports. Unless the strike,

lock-out or other industrial dispute is terminated or adjusted prior

thereto, or is re-submitted by all parties to the dispute for voluntary

settlement to the state board of mediation, any final report of a board

of inquiry shall be made public by the commissioner. The commissioner

may make public any interim report of a board of inquiry or any part

thereof, in such manner as he deems proper. Provided, however, that

there shall be excluded from any report or publication authorized by the

board or the commissioner, any information, other than information

having a direct bearing on the dispute, obtained by the board in the

course of its inquiry as to any labor union or as to any individual

business (whether carried on by person, firm or corporation) if at the

time such information is supplied to the board the person who supplies

it represents to the board that it is confidential information and the

board is satisfied that it is information which is not available

otherwise than through evidence given at the inquiry, unless with

respect to such evidence so presented as confidential and found to be

not otherwise available the board procures from the labor union or the

person, firm or corporation the consent to publication; nor shall any

individual member of the board or any person concerned in the inquiry,

without such consent, disclose any such information.