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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
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Attorney General’s Opinion 1974-75 #069
A copy of the county clerk of court’s report on fees, commission and salaries is an official record subject to public inspection.
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Attorney General’s Opinion 1974-75 #583
Sheriff’s jail books open for public inspection.
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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.
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Attorney General’s Opinion 1973-74 #241
State police not required to provide copies or allow for inspection of accident reports filed with the DMV, though there’s nothing to prevent an officer from vonveying the information verbally or from a person getting the report through the DMV.
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Attorney General’s Opinion 1973-74 #412A
Personal property roll books are not subject to the Tax Code’s confidentiality provisions. Nor is a list of business licensees.