Attorney General
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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 #054
School board hearing on budget must be open, though FOIA doesn’t mandate a formal public hearing on the budget.
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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 #481A
Constitutional officers, such as treasurers, have the same rights of governmental access as any citizen.
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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 #482
Honor committee, funded and maintained by a state university board of visitors is public body subject to FOIA. Honor council trials are not open meetings becayse they involve student discipline.
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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 #005
Statewide Health Coordinating Council is public body.
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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 1977-78 #485
Prearranged out-of-town meeting of two public bodies required that notice be sent to those requesting it and that minutes be taken.
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Attorney General’s Opinion 1977-78 #484
City council and taxpayers’ association may meet together as long as FOIA’s notice and minutes procedures are followed.
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Attorney General’s Opinion 1977-78 #492
Secret ballot voting in open meeting prohibited. Actions taken by secret-ballot vote are ineffective until affirmed by open vote in open meeting.
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Attorney General’s Opinion 1976-77 #308A
Chance encounter of two or members of a local governing body is not a meeting subject to FOIA, even if the members discuss public business when they see each other, so long as the encounter was not prearranged with the purpose of discussing public business.
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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 #308
Three-member committee of nine-member council is subject to FOIA. Public and press may be excluded from a properly called executive session, but there is nothing to prohibit the attendance at the meeting of people who would be helpful or necessary to the meeting.
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Attorney General’s Opinion 1976-77 #316
No executive session under legal matters exemption to discuss advertising contract bid and negotiations. No executive session under real estate exemption to discuss debt owed on property already acquired.