Federal Action Reporting Form

Please use this form to share information regarding federal government action in New York state.  

Filing a complaint does not start a lawsuit on your behalf. The Attorney General cannot give legal advice or represent individual complainants in court. For questions on your legal rights or responsibilities, please contact a private lawyer.  

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Your information

Providing your contact information allows us to follow up with you to confirm any necessary information. Your contact information will be kept confidential to the extent permitted by law.  

Incident details
Were you physically present during the incident?
How were you involved?

Where and when did this happen?

Other complaint and legal action
Have you made a complaint regarding this incident to any other agency or to a court?
Have you filed any legal action arising out of the information you provided?
Photo submission
Status
  • Submit up to five supporting photographs of the incident you describe above. Please note that each file must be smaller than 10 MB and the combined file size of all attachments may not exceed 50 MB. To share video files, see the following “Video submission” section.
File attachment 1
One file only.
10 MB limit.
Allowed types: gif, jpg, jpeg, png, bmp, psd.
Did you take this photograph?
File attachment 2
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10 MB limit.
Allowed types: gif, jpg, jpeg, png, bmp, psd.
Did you take this photograph?
File attachment 3
One file only.
10 MB limit.
Allowed types: gif, jpg, jpeg, png, bmp, psd.
Did you take this photograph?
File attachment 4
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10 MB limit.
Allowed types: gif, jpg, jpeg, png, bmp, psd.
Did you take this photograph?
File attachment 5
One file only.
10 MB limit.
Allowed types: gif, jpg, jpeg, png, bmp, psd.
Did you take this photograph?
Video submission
Status
  • Submit up to five supporting videos of the incident you describe above. To share video files, please upload to a third-party video site -- such as YouTube, Vimeo, Twitter, Instagram, or Facebook -- and provide the direct link to the content and a brief description of the nature of the video.
Video link 1
Did you take this video?
Video link 2
Did you take this video?
Video link 3
Did you take this video?
Video link 4
Did you take this video?
Video link 5
Did you take this video?
In providing the Office of the New York State Attorney General this information, I understand that:

Note: All boxes must be checked before submission

The Attorney General may use any documents, photographs, or videos I provided in a public document, including in a legal proceeding or public report or statement.
The Attorney General may reach out to me if I provided my contact information.
My complaint is true and accurate to the best of my knowledge and any documents attached are true and accurate copies of the originals. Any false statements I have made in this complaint can be punished as a Class A misdemeanor (under Penal law Section 175.30 or Section 210.45, or both).