Earlier this year, the General Assembly passed a new Right-to-Know Law that dramatically changes the rules governing the public’s access to government records. The biggest change is the new law’s express mandate that government records are presumed to be open to the public.
In light of this change, the law carves out more than 30 exceptions setting out what records are not publicly accessible. Many of these exceptions are specific. For example, the law bars access to Social Security numbers, personal telephone numbers and academic transcripts. Others do not appear quite so clear at first blush. One of those exceptions denies access to records of agencies’ policy deliberations. Although this new exception appears to present novel issues, it actually reflects an established area of the law, making its meaning and scope more clear.
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