Personnel
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Attorney General’s Opinion 1991 #009
Names, qualifications, evaluations, tests used to evaluate, and how indidivual candidates fared under selection criteria all exempt. General selection criteria not exempt. Certificates issued by Department of Mines, Minerals and Energy regarding persons certified to work in mines must be disclosed.
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Attorney General’s Opinion 1985-86 #333
HUD reports are exempt to the extent that they reveal information about identifiable employees
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Attorney General’s Opinion 1983-84 #449
Personnel reports that do not identify employees must be disclosed. Teacher evaluations on school ratings are open if executive meetings exclusions are not present.
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Attorney General’s Opinion 1983-84 #314
An exhibit is not automatically converted into a personnel record simply because it is introduced in a grievance procedure. FOIA and the Privacy Protection Act notwithstanding, a teacher has the statutory right to a private grievance hearing.
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Attorney General’s Opinion 1982-83 #726
A volunteer fire department is subject to FOIA if it is funded wholly or principally by public funds. Records regarding the suspension of a fire chief are confidential as part of the chief’s personnel file.
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Attorney General’s Opinion 1981-82 #433
Neither applications nor the identities of those applying for nonpaying positions on public boards or commissions are exempt from disclosure as personnel records.
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Attorney General’s Opinion 1979-80 #385
Because nothing in FOIA demands confidentiality of any record or meeting, school board members-elect may attend executive sessions and review personnel records prior to taking office.
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Attorney General’s Opinion 1979-80 #301
Teaching certificates are exempt as personnel records.
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Attorney General’s Opinion 1978-79 #317
Records on a teacher’s professional qualifications are personnel records.
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Attorney General’s Opinion 1976-77 #210
Letters of reference are not exempt funder FOIA, but the Privacy Protection Act does prohibit their release.
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Attorney General’s Opinion 1974-75 #580
Composite evaluation of school superintendent, made up of several individual evaluations, is exempt as a personnel record.
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Attorney General’s Opinion 1974-75 #585
Teachers, and all publicly employed persons, have a right to view their own personnel file.
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Attorney General’s Opinion 1973-74 #456
City job applicant is entitled to see his application and accompanying background report.