FOIA
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Attorney General’s Opinion 1976-77 #309
FOIA applies to the General Assembly and its clerks. The telephone recrods of General Assembly members are not exempt as working papers.
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Attorney General’s Opinion 1974-75 #576
Complaints filed with the county human rights commission and/or tenant-landlord commission are public records. FOIA provisions trump conflicting city ordinances.
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Attorney General’s Opinion 1975-76 #406
University of Virginia advisory committee made up of faculty and administrative personnel not subject to FOIA.
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Attorney General’s Opinion 1975-76 #408
outdated statutory rules applied to boards of visitors meetings.
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Attorney General’s Opinion 1975-76 #071
FOIA does not apply to inspection of bid records; another Code provisions regulates this area.
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Attorney General’s Opinion 1975-76 #223
Other Code provisions prohibit release of information to parents of minors tested for venereal and other contagious diseases.
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Attorney General’s Opinion 1974-75 #569
Person seeking enforcement of FOIA provisions carries burden of proof. Plaintiff must submit affidavit in support of petition for injunction
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Attorney General’s Opinion 1974-75 #584
Because it was specifically created by the State Council on Higher Education and is, therefore, supported wholly or in part by public funds, the General Professional Advisory Committee is subject to FOIA. However, the Council of College and/or University Presidents is a voluntarily created alliance not supported by public funds, and so is not subject…
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Attorney General’s Opinion 1974-75 #574
Meetings between city manager and city council are public unless an exemption applies. Conflicting city charter provisions trump FOIA.
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Attorney General’s Opinion 1974-75 #573
Industrial authority may hold closed meeting to discuss prospective business relocations provided there has been no prior public announcement about the business’ intention to locate in the area. Duty is to create access to records/meetings, not to proactively release information.
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Attorney General’s Opinion 1974-75 #212
Industrial development authorities are subject to FOIA. Act doesn’t require public notice of meetings, just notice to those who have requested it.
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Attorney General’s Opinion 1974-75 #578
Secret-ballot vote at open meeting not permissible. Election of officers by improper secret at an open meeting not valid until vote can be retaken in open session.
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Attorney General’s Opinion 1973-74 #451
Boards of zoning appeals are subject to FOIA. any action taken in a closed session is null and void unless voted on in a public meeting.
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Attorney General’s Opinion 1973-74 #454
College boards of visitors subject to some but not all of FOIA’s provisions.
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Attorney General’s Opinion 1972-73 #497
The Virginia Port Authority may use mail-in ballots to carry on administrative work, public business must be conducted in accordance with FOIA.
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Attorney General’s Opinion 1972-73 #163
The press and the public have access rights to an electoral board’s records.
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Attorney General’s Opinion 1972-73 #487
Judicial Conference of Courts of Record subject to FOIA. Meetings of the Judicial Conference of Courts of Record court system study commission are open.
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Attorney General’s Opinion 1972-73 #492
If a body’s constituent members get together to discuss public business is discussed and votes are taken, they have had a meeting, regardless of whether the body labels the get-together an informal gathering. Purpose behind FOIA.
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Attorney General’s Opinion 1968-69 #088
Local electoral boards are subject to FOIA.