Attorney General

Attorney General's Opinion 1977-78 #486

Coupons clipped from a private citizen-paid newspaper ad and sent to individual supervisors are not official records. Any formal petition, however, would be.

Attorney General's Opinion 1977-78 #489

Salaries of identifiable employees may be disclosed. Financial interest statements filed with clerk of court are open.

Attorney General's Opinion 1977-78 #487

Birth records are not official records. Other code provisions generally prohibit their release.

Attorney General's Opinion 1977-78 #309

Master list of restaurant and grocery store health inspections, and presumably the supporting files, are official records.

Attorney General's Opinion 1977-78 #485

Prearranged out-of-town meeting of two public bodies required that notice be sent to those requesting it and that minutes be taken.

Attorney General's Opinion 1977-78 #484

City council and taxpayers' association may meet together as long as FOIA's notice and minutes procedures are followed.

Attorney General's Opinion 1977-78 #492

Secret ballot voting in open meeting prohibited. Actions taken by secret-ballot vote are ineffective until affirmed by open vote in open meeting.

Attorney General's Opinion 1976-77 #308A

Chance encounter of two or members of a local governing body is not a meeting subject to FOIA, even if the members discuss public business when they see each other, so long as the encounter was not prearranged with the purpose of discussing public business.

Attorney General's Opinion 1976-77 #315

Materials forwarded to individual school board members from the school superintendent are not exempt under the working papers exemption.

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