Advisory Council
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FOI Advisory Council Opinion AO-11-01
Lists of businesses to whom licenses have been issued or lists of individuals or businesses on a locality’s tax rolls are available under FOIA if they exist.
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FOI Advisory Council Opinion AO-12-01
A public body may charge $.25 per page for copies as long as that charge does not exceed the actual cost of providing the record.
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FOI Advisory Council Opinion AO-09-01
As an agency of the county, a neighborhood connections office is subject to FOIA.
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FOI Advisory Council Opinion AO-07-01
Videotapes taken from a camera mounted on a public school bus are not available for disclosure under FOIA or FERPA unless the written consent of every parent of every identifiable child is obtained.
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FOI Advisory Council Opinion AO-08-01
In consultation with legal counsel, the public body is the holder of the attorney-client privilege and so may disclose information it wishes; merely discussing an exempt document does not kill an applicable exemption.
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FOI Advisory Council Opinion AO-05-01
A school board member’s attendance as a member of the general public at a meeting of a committee that two fellow school board members are on does not constitute a meeting of the school board.
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FOI Advisory Council Opinion AO-06-01
noncriminal incident police reports are available under FOIA, though police may excise personal identifying information; phone director of city employees, if it exists, is subject to disclosure under FOIA.
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FOI Advisory Council Opinion AO-03-01
Regarding requirements for notice and agendas for special or emergency meetings; enforcement
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FOI Advisory Council Opinion AO-04-01
The personnel records exemption allows the withholding of personally identifiable information regarding a applicant’s education and qualificiations; specific classes taken by city manager part of personnel record, too.
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FOI Advisory Council Opinion AO-01-01
Use of an e-mail network listserv by city council members is an improper electronic meeting under FOIA.
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FOI Advisory Council Opinion AO-02-01
The Board of Funeral Directors and Embalmers may, under a FOIA exemption, withhold the names of applicants for licensure.
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FOI Advisory Council Opinion AO-21-00
The Erosion and Sedimentation Control Administrator for the Natural Tunnel Soil and Water Conservation District, when conducting an investigation to determine if a criminal violation of section 10.1-563 has been committed, could properly withhold the records of the complaints leading to the investigation.
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FOI Advisory Council Opinion AO-19-00
Parental request of school board for religious exemption (as a personal matter unrelated to the transaction of public business) is proper subject for a closed meeting if the topic has been identified with specificity in the motion to go into closed session.
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FOI Advisory Council Opinion AO-20-00
The annual report on the compensation plan being developed by the Department of Human Resources is a public record.
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FOI Advisory Council Opinion AO-10-00
Virginia School Boards Association is not subject to FOIA; members of individual school boards attending a VASB conference should refrain from discussing public business without notifying the public.
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FOI Advisory Council Opinion AO-11-00
public body not required to merge two separate databases to create a record containing the information sought by a requester; requester can ask for both databases and manipulate the raw data himself.
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FOI Advisory Council Opinion AO-12-00
once city council members acted on a report that was arguably part of the city manager’s working papers, any exempt status is lost and the document becomes part of the public record.
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FOI Advisory Council Opinion AO-13-00
Notice for special or emergency meetings must be reasonable under the circumstances; determination of reasonableness is not within purview of FOI Advisory Council’s duties.
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FOI Advisory Council Opinion AO-14-00
Complaints against identifiable individuals are exempt personnel records; settlement amounts are public records, but if a record listing all amounts paid does not exist, public body has no duty to compile such a list; reworded request may yield documents sought.
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FOI Advisory Council Opinion AO-15-00
Information regarding access to court records, specifically divorce records, is outside the scope of FOIA.
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FOI Advisory Council Opinion AO-16-00
A volunteer rescue squad supported primarily through private donations is not a public body subject to FOIA.
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FOI Advisory Council Opinion AO-17-00
An individual is entitled to his personnel record; general job classification and salary information of public officials is specifically available under FOIA.
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FOI Advisory Council Opinion AO-18-00
Death certificates, as vital records, are not covered by FOIA.
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FOI Advisory Council Opinion AO-09-00
Roberts Rules of Order is subordinate to FOIA in the event of any conflict between the two.
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FOI Advisory Council Opinion AO-08-00
The condition or use of real estate is no longer a valid topic for a closed meeting; city manager’s working paper exemption evaporates once he disseminates document.