This is what NY law states:

The Open Meetings Law was recently amended, effective April 1, 2011, to require that public bodies, including school boards, allow meetings to be photographed, broadcast, webcast or otherwise recorded and/or transmitted by audio or video means (Pub. Off. Law § 103(d)).

http://www.dos.state.ny.us/coog/modelregs_photo_record_broadcast.html.  

Also you can go here:

https://docsopengovernment.dos.ny.gov/coog/otext/o3185.htm 

The Freedom of Information Law is based on a presumption of access; all agency records are accessible...

ii. instructions to staff that affect the public;...

...portions of such materials consisting of statistical or factual information, instructions to staff that affect the public, final agency policy or determinations or external audits must be made available...