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.
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Attorney General’s Opinion 1975-76 #284
Police departments must maintain arrest and investigative records until such time that the Library of Virginia determines they have no lasting value.
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Attorney General’s Opinion 1975-76 #412A
Notes made by an official at the Division of Personnel on a federal government report about the operations and policies of the division are official records.
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Attorney General’s Opinion 1975-76 #414
conciliation agreements entered into by all parties in a complaint with the Human Rights Commission are official records subject to disclosure.
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Attorney General’s Opinion 1975-76 #410
Mere distribution of a letter during executive session without discussion does not violate FOIA, though the letter itself is an official record subject to disclosure upon request.
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Attorney General’s Opinion 1975-76 #418
Arrest warrant information is open for public inspection, provided such records are actually maintained by the sheriff’s office.
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Attorney General’s Opinion 1974-75 #581
School-by-school results of scholastic achievement tests are open records.
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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