Records
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Attorney General’s Opinion 1979-80 #378
School board may not use personnel exemption to discuss general personnel priorities in exeuctive session. Materials held exclusively by school superintendent are exempt working papers even if the superintendent has given a presentation to school board personnel using those materials.
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Attorney General’s Opinion 1979-80 #377A
Fees not in excess of the actual cost of providing copies are allowable.
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Attorney General’s Opinion 1979-80 #236
Medicare and Medicaid cost reports are open records. Court rulings interpreting the federal FOIA do not apply to Virginia’s FOIA.
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Attorney General’s Opinion 1979-80 #384
Jail inmates are entitled to look at their own medical records that are otherwise exempt under FOIA.
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Attorney General’s Opinion 1978-79 #313A
Building and zoning permits are official records.
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Attorney General’s Opinion 1978-79 #313
Minutes or transcripts of a properly held executive meeting are exempt from mandatory disclsoure.
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Attorney General’s Opinion 1978-79 #317A
a report to a public body becomes an official record when it comes in to the body’s possession.
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Attorney General’s Opinion 1978-79 #315
financial statements city requires merchants selling goods in the city to file with its purchasing department are official 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 1978-79 #318
The transcript of a Virginia Employment Commission hearing is a public record, but it exempt from mandatory disclosure by other code provisions.
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Attorney General’s Opinion 1978-79 #310
County must disclose salary of county employees earning more than $10,000.
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Attorney General’s Opinion 1978-79 #311
records of the position, job classification, salary or rate of pay and expense reimbursements paid to officials and employees of the University of Virginia are subject to required disclosure.
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Attorney General’s Opinion 1977-78 #481
List of county employees enrolled in the federal Comprehensive Employment and Training Act is an official record.
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Attorney General’s Opinion 1977-78 #493
papers prepared in response to a proposed zoning ordinance are official records.
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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.
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Attorney General’s Opinion 1977-78 #489
Salaries of identifiable employees may be disclosed. Financial interest statements filed with clerk of court are open.
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Attorney General’s Opinion 1977-78 #487
Birth records are not official records. Other code provisions generally prohibit their release.
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Attorney General’s Opinion 1977-78 #309
Master list of restaurant and grocery store health inspections, and presumably the supporting files, are official records.
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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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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 1976-77 #317
Salaries of identifiable employees need not be disclosed. Working papers of school division superintendent are exempt, but not similar papers held by the school board.
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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 #305
Scholastic record exemption still allows access to the students parents if the student is under 18, and to the parents and the student if he/she is 18 or older.
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Attorney General’s Opinion 1975-76 #415
Working papers exemption applies to county administrator, but not to the board of supervisors.