Some Hudson Valley families are outraged over the Department of Justice's decision to not investigate New York's response to COVID-19 in nursing homes.

The DOJ issued a letter on Friday saying it will not open a civil investigation to determine whether policies issued during the pandemic requiring nursing homes to accept COVID-positive patients contributed to deaths.

News 12 spoke to JoAnn Rodriguez, a Yonkers woman who lost her 84-year-old father during the pandemic after he contracted COVID-19 in a nursing home.

She believes the governor is to blame.

"We are still not getting even a public apology from our governor all this time later. It's still a huge slap in the face to not just my family but to all of the 15,000 other family members who lost loved ones in nursing homes," she says.

Gov. Andrew Cuomo responded to the decision Monday afternoon.

In a statement he says in part, "It was an outrageous allegation. We followed the CDC guidance when it came to how we handled people in nursing homes and when they went to a hospital, when they were brought back to a nursing home."