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UFOA President James Brosi gives testimony to the City Council calling on NYC to release Air Quality and Toxins documents.  On January 29, 2015 a meeting was held investigating this matter.  The New York Post reports that the City's Department of Investigation claims that a "staffing issue" is preventing it from investigating what past administrations knew about the 9/11 air toxins.  DOI commissioner, Joycelyn Weber testified that her agency is not equipped to do the "deep dive" she believes in required to investigate the potential decades-old mystery surrounding Ground Zero.  

President Brosi calls the response, "not reasonable."  States Brosi, "I'll say, as a first responder that we knew there was a risk.  I'll say that we measured that risk, and we measured against what our duty was and what you asked of us.  But how dare they not release these records?  

This hearing comes after a years-long battle for the City to release the documents as the number of 9/11 FDNY first responders killed from exposure to toxins at Ground Zero rose to 370 as of September 2024, surpassing the amount of department members killed in the September 11th terrorist attacks.  The questions still remain unanswered.

[On the 23rd anniversary of 9/11, a new transparency bill was introduced aiming to reveal what the city government knew about the environmental toxins in the air.   In a statement issued by a City Hall spokesperson said, "Mayor Adams is unwavering in his support of the 9/11 victims, first responders, families, and survivors.  We will review the legislation."  It would be a BINDING RESOLUTION, which means the mayor cannot veto it.  It would require the Department of Investigation to do just that, investigate, audit would then have 2 years to report its findings.]