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Public records. Public records are documents or pieces of information that are not considered confidential and generally pertain to the conduct of government. Depending on jurisdiction, examples of public records includes information pertaining to births, deaths, marriages, and documented transaction with government agencies.
The New Jersey Open Public Records Act, N.J.S.A. 47:1A-1 et seq. (P.L. 2001, c. 404), commonly abbreviated OPRA, is a statute that provides a right to the public to access certain public records in the State of New Jersey, as well as the process by which that right may be exercised. In general, OPRA provides that "government records shall be ...
Freedom of information in the United Statesrelates to the public's ability to access government records, meetings, and other information. In the United States, freedom of information legislationexists at all levels of government: federal level, state level, and local level.
The open records law lays out what records − budgets, meeting minutes, personnel files, police reports and more − must be disclosed upon request. The open meetings act requires public bodies ...
The current definition of a public record that Kentuckians can access via an open records request is any documentation “prepared, owned, used, in the possession of or retained by a public agency.”
The bill would explicitly exclude correspondence “in which opinions are expressed or policies formulated or recommended” from being accessible via an open records request.”
The Freedom of Information Act ( FOIA / ˈfɔɪjə / FOY-yə ), 5 U.S.C. § 552, is the United States federal freedom of information law that requires the full or partial disclosure of previously unreleased or uncirculated information and documents controlled by the U.S. government upon request. The act defines agency records subject to disclosure, outlines mandatory disclosure procedures, and ...
Amye Bensenhaver, a former deputy attorney general specializing in the Kentucky Open Records Act and current co-director of the Kentucky Open Government Coalition, celebrated the news.