| Opinion
No. |
Issue(s)
|
January |
|
AO-01-02
|
A public body
must release the names of current public employees and
salary information under FOIA. FOIA does not require,
however, the release of records related to the retirement
of specific public employees which may properly be withheld
as personnel records. |
March
|
|
AO-02-02
|
Three members
of a public body may gather at a private meeting without
the private meeting becoming a meeting under FOIA if the
members of the public body do not "discuss"
or "transact" public business. |
AO-03-02
|
Records of expenditures
for Building Code Academy are not exempt from disclosure
nor is the disclosure of such records otherwise prohibited
by law. The format or degree of detail included in the
record is within the discretion of the public body that
is the custodian of the record. |
April
|
|
AO-04-02
|
A public body
must release records generated during contract negotiations
in the absence of a statutory exemption from the mandatory
disclosure requirements of FOIA for such records. |
May
|
|
AO-05-02
|
The inclusion
of fringe benefits as part of the charges that may be
assessed is an extraneous fee to recoup the general costs
of transacting the general buisness of the public body
and therefore may not be computed in the charges allowable
under FOIA for the production of requested records. |
July
|
|
AO-06-02
|
Definition of
a meeting; notice requirements for public meetings; waiver
of notice by public officials. |
AO-07-02
|
Application
of personnel records exemption to employee timesheets. |
August
|
|
AO-08-02
|
Individual polling
of city council members by city manager is allowable under
FOIA; motion to enter into closed session must meet all
three statutory requirements; discussion in closed session
may not stray from exemptions cited in motion; votes must
be taken in open meeting. |
AO-09-02
|
Corporation
is subject to FOIA when it is wholly owned by a public
body, and its records are subject to public disclosure. |
October
|
|
AO-10-02
|
Delinquent tax
information is public record; public body may make reasonable
charges for the actual costs incurred in providing copies
of records; public body has five working days to respond
to a FOIA request. |
AO-11-02
|
Court records
are subject to disclosure pursuant to FOIA; a requester
has the right to request records in any medium used by
a public body in the course of its regular business. |
AO-12-02
|
The mayor or
the chief executive officer of a locality, but not both,
may exercise the working papers exemption. |
AO-13-02
|
The procedures
and practices governing the process by which those people
designated by an inmate are notified in case of serious
illness, injury or death are subject to disclosure under
FOIA. |
November
|
|
AO-14-02
|
Public body
may make reasonable charges for its actual costs incurred
in responding to request for records; question of reasonableness
is for the courts. |
AO-15-02
|
Use of a "straw
poll" in closed meeting is permitted by FOIA; however,
no agreement reached in a closed meeting becomes effective
until the membership of the public body votes in an open
meeting. |
AO-16-02
|
Local public
bodies may not conduct telecommunication meetings under
FOIA. |
AO-17-02
|
The Halifax
County Industrial Development Authority is a public body
under FOIA and is subject to the open meeting requirements
of FOIA; role of FOIA Council. |
